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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | its that time of year agian... thanksgiving is the deadline ,, exchange names and im sposta have a list of things i want .... my kids wanna know the wife... if i dont make a list i end up with a fish pillow another packer or badger sweatshirt and you know that kind of stuff.. thaught a thread with idias would be good for some of us guys... lately ive been putting down a fleet farm gift card works out ok just not as fun to open.... looking for reasonable items that we all can put on the fridge in case aunt B needs an idia.... thanks please post things that a guy will be happy to have laying around in the boat or truck or something... thanks |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | thanks to rob the muskynightmare peterson. i was reminded of something i want but never remember to pick up...
#1 ROD SOCKS
#2 L.E.D. CLIP ON LIGHT THAT IS SHAPED FOR AND FITS UNDER THE VISOR OF A BASE BALL CAP
#3 UPDATED EMERGENCEY FLARE KIT(NOT EXITING TO OPEN BUT WILL NEED AGIAN THIS YEAR)
#4 WALLEYES FOR TOMMOROW MEMBERSHIP
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Location: LaCrosse, WI | One thing I do every year is make my wish list on Cabelas web site. It's kind of like a gift registry for guys. I get crankbaits, planer boards, ice fishing gear etc...
It's pretty sweet, they just have to enter your name and location and boom there's your wish list. Now, if I could just get my mother in law to use the site I'd be set.
This year, it's probably going to be a new leadcore rod, a whole list of crankbaits (will be happy with any from my list), the remote for my Motorguide Wireless, and more. My wife has a great program worked out, it seems like for every $100 I spend on her, I get 1 new crankbait  |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | 1. Happiness and good health to all my friends and family.
2. Peace for all.
3. 160"+ of whitetail in my truck on my way back from Missouri.
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | gnwc rookie and jerry reminded me of two imortant things with there post...
My favorite thing to see under the tree or on my birthday... those little crank bait boxes wrapped up! my kids are now 15 and 17 but for the last ten or 15 years i have always looked forward to those not so profesionally wrapped little boxes ,,, My son was sharp! he knew his dad and what caught fish,,, always a thunderstick jr.. or walleydiver or shadrap, he knew what was in the many plastic storage boxes and how they were marked and labled for the appropriate contense ,,, its my daughter that was a bit unconventional, her eye for crank baits always drifted to the cute sparkly chubby stuff with the glitter and the largest eyeballs known to fit on a bait. chubby pink and yellow ,, if it looked like a bumble bee or ladybug or just goofy cute. she would buy it... wrap it and hand it to me with her big smile.... lets face it anything fishing related got fiddled with non stop wile the bulk of the gifts were opened by my wife and kids... but a couple boxes of crank baits,,, a fish pole from my wife and i wouldnt need another gift for a year... fast forward ..... this june my 17 year old daughter asks me to take her fishing in the morning as her brother is not home and she doesnt have to be at the piggly wiggly for work till around 1 ... she just wants to get some sun and read her book a bit... now we dont troll much as we have found comfort in a 7 foot rod and a 16th oz jig... but she wasnt that ambitious and rather than handing her a slip bobber rig in flat calm conditions at 8 in the morning i fired up the kicker and started trolling... besides the mud had been on fire for weeks.. as i pull the rods out of the locker i told her to pick out some cranks... she skips over the 3 boxes packed with thunder jrs and digs out something that hadnt seen daylight ever i think... she grabs my box of misfits, this box is made up of all the non traditional bass type or free crank baits i got for ordering a magazine , i think one says skidoo on it and well there just things that dont fit in . i certainly cant put a baby thunderstick in with a thunderstick jr much less these things... anyway... as she opens the box and starts picking out cranks she smiles and hands me one... oh no im thinking.. and then she hands me another... she remembered all the ones she so carfully picked out as gifts for me over the years. She with her big smile ,im sure could tell by how clean and brand new looking not only the storage box was but also every bait in it... that i never used them once.. i felt like dirt but she just smiles and hands me them one at a time as i put them on and send them out . after about 15 min and as we pass the transition line from gravel to mud we have our first board go back.. fish on and i handed her the rod... i netted it and our first fish was a 21 incher... a big smile on her face again as a 3 or 4 lb fish is rare when we are anchord and fishing the rocks.. interesting program but as we boated fish surprisingly timed perfectley apart by a few min.. my daughters program was unique ,after we boated a fish with one of her seemingly goofy unapitizing crank baits she would make me take it off and would hand me another crank bait even more silly... she would then wipe down the used one(that we just caught a fish on!) and place it back in the misfit box ... after about an hour and a half she said its time to go .. need to get home and shower before work... we had 9 nice fish in the box and threw back two fish that were in the 5 pound range somewere... one of my best if not the best day i had on the water this year for size of fish .. every fish a big smile and a new chubby overfed goldfish style crank bait with its eyes almost bulging out... im glad that it was just her and i ... my son would have most surly taken over as first mate and ran all the common heavy hitter crankbaits.. my daughter would have dove into her book and wound a fish up or grabbed the net when it was her turn... it was a good day , ill never forget it ... in my garage i have a shelf with 20 or so boxes full of cranks , all labeled and marked with there contence.... the unmarked misfit box is now marked ,TOP SECRET ! tournaments only, i dont know , i dont think she noticed yet that the misfit box with all the gifts she carfully picked out for me since she was like 4 has a name , if not i hope we get out togather and she does notice. i can see the smile now... they grow fast ... next year off to collage... i hope the misfit box doesnt get set aside for another ten years... i will do my best to avoid this from happening .. just do me one favor .. if you have a box like this full of well intentioned gifts from people you love .. go out to the shed , throw some dirt on em.. at least make it look like you used them... it is uncomfortable when your once little nieve little girl gets older and can see for herself that you never even used them and still can smile and hand them to you one by one.. and then the ugly things catch fish... thank god they caught fish... remember to throw dirt on em... remember |
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| Bradley, Nice story! Thanks, Are not children the greatest gift in the world! So often they humble us and remind us that it isn't always about how succesful one is but more importantly the quality of life and the moments shared together that makes trips like those the success we remember the most. My boys have done the same thing to me many times, more often than not I let them run the show as it's not about the fish in my boat anymore as I always have kids in the boat.
Good luck
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Location: Appleton, WI | tyee - 10/16/2007 8:41 PM
Bradley, Nice story! Thanks, Are not children the greatest gift in the world! So often they humble us and remind us that it isn't always about how succesful one is but more importantly the quality of life and the moments shared together that makes trips like those the success we remember the most. My boys have done the same thing to me many times, more often than not I let them run the show as it's not about the fish in my boat anymore as I always have kids in the boat.
Good luck
Tyee
I beg to differ. Grandkids are the greatest gift in the world. I get one more this January!
Here is a few more Ideas:
Those good Off-shore clips for planer boards.
big planos for your harnesses.
tackle buddies for your harnesses.
custom blades. |
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Location: Port Washington, wisconsin | I'd kinda like one of those hand held digital scales. I passed the word to Santa the other day. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | speaking of storys , are there any good books recomended that came out recently for the walley or fisherman in general?
oh and add greg bohn's slip bobber book to the list... i did . also one of those fish cradle things you put the fish in when putting them on your digital scale... i have torn a gill on a fish or two over the years on the scale hook... they shake and hurt themselves makes you sick when it happens .... my wife got me a large digital clock that mounts to my boat dash... lol i always stay out a bit too long and she misses me i guess... thinks i forget to check the time.. even though i have a clock on my gps and cell phone.. now i have this thing with 3 inch noumbers on it looking at me every time i look at my dash ... oh well... brad |
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Location: Berlin | A hug and hold from Jerry is all I need for Christmas:) |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | You got it buddy!!!!!!! |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | can you feal the love........ ? you guys obviusly have something special... when ever i ask one of my buddies to hold me all i get is a goofy look and they move to the other end of the boat and dont speak for the rest of the day... oh well.......... |
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Nothing turns a thread sour as fast as hairy man affection...
Santa Bahls is going to add both of you to the "dull hooks for Christmas" list. |
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| Bradley, shouldn't that be "Can ya feel the Man love?"
All I want for Christmas is a paid trip to the Shrink to help me cope and get past that mental image. |
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Location: Appleton wi | perhaps there is more to the name"meat and potato guy" than we know!  |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | ok , i was going to add a few things like #1 cotton #2 vasolein #3 first aid kit for tournament use as i seem to always take a good pounding from the boys but now that i know these items could be also taken advantage of some for RECREATIONAL USE ! as sick as that may sound i would like to say that to each his own but the thaught of hairy man love not only is sour but my tummy is now very upset... no thanks to your post brad B... thanks id rather like to think of these two as sensitive individuals that are in touch with each others fealings ,,,, agian no more talk of hairy man love ok .... ok? B |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | STOP!!!!! THIS IS WAYYYYYYYYYYY ABOVE AND BEYOND NOW!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Appleton wi | Haha jerry just alittle teasing. have a great weekand |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | oh thaught of a couple more things after scrubbing the slime off my water line on my boat #1 one of those spinning brushes on a stick that you attach to your garden hose. THERE good for nothing until i used mine on my boat and after it got run over by the lawn more i now miss it ... #2 a new lawnmower blade... #3 RAM Ball mount for my electric trolling moter so i dont hafta strap it down.. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | my birthday came and went... i got an electric fellet knife ... never used one,.... other than on a turky and that was moms kitchen electric.. guys say once you use one you will never go back is it true? guess ill have to get the boat back out or take my chances in a month or two on the ice before i get to use it... |
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