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 Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I suspect many of you from different areas of the country have the same problems we do here with opening day headaches. You know what I'm talking about. People who have not started their outboards since last summer, or have trailer or other maintenance problems they should have kept up with, that always manifest themselves right at the ramp while their launching. Or the guys who simply don't know boating or really care about ramp ediquate. You tolerate these things the best you can, but it detracts from your own enjoyable experience. I used to deal with this like everybody else did for the longest time, but the whole experience was not condusive to having a good time for me, so I removed myself from this poison atmosphere and go during the week after the opener. And this post is not meant to cause trouble of degrade anybody new to the whole fishing experience. So please do not take it that way. But I had a weird and kinda funny dream about the opener, after a late supper and a #20 Vikaden for my ankle and shoulder pain that I would like to share. Dreamed I was launching on the Tittabawassee River on opening day with a friend and his wife. As we were in route I was telling him about the rudeness, the wait, the four letter words and just the sheer hassle we would encounter on the river being it was opening day of walleye season. Well when we arrived at the ramp (and as expected) there were cars and trailers lined up all the way through the parking lot out to the road. But for some reason everybody was smiling and waving me through and around them down to the ramp. When I positioned my truck and boat to back down the ramp, the guys who's boats were pulled up at the ramp and in the way quickly jumped in their boats and shoved off making room for me to back up. Then as I pulled out after launching, 2 trucks parked right in front pulled away giving me room to park my own truck and trailer right in the very first spot nearest the ramp. And in the dream I was still using my walking boot because of my ankle surgery and was actually helped by 2 strangers to get into my boat when I got to it. As we pulled out of the ramp area I could see both up and down the river hundreds of boats everywhere. I decided that we should go way down river away from the crowds and fish the Freeland high banks area in one of my favorite deep holes. So we started down river at a slow trolling pace. And as we past the first boat the guy in it asked "Where ya headed Capt. Dan". "I'm headed down to the high banks I answered". "Why don't you jump up on plane, you'll get there a lot faster" he answered. I was shocked, but I did and like I usually do, I hugged close to the opposite bank of the river that people were not fishing to keep both my wake and my interuption to their fishing to a minimum. And as I passed them they were all smiling and waving at me instead of giving me the finger and shouting four letter words at me. It was unbelievable. Now by this time and after that reaction, I should have realized this was a VERY BIG DREAM, but it went on. As we neared my favorite spot in the river, I could see many boats near it but nobody was actually fishing in it. So we positioned the boat and anchored. My very first cast was exactly where I wanted it and the THUMP that fallowed the tick (letting me know my jig had hit bottom) was awesome. What fallowed was walleye after walleye in the 8 to 10 pound range. All three of us were catching one after the other and laughing like little girls having a ball. Then right in the middle of reaching too net yet another 10 pounder of my buddies I got this God Awful pain in the crotch area, that put me right on the floor of my boat. I then instantly woke up to find my 5 month old lab pup (who now weighs 65 pounds) had jumped up on the bed and right in the middle of my business. So the day did end in about the way I thought the whole trip might have after all, a big pain.    Edited by walleye express 3/30/2008 9:50 AM | ||
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Ahhhh, too be young and mentally sterile again. When just being able to read words was never a prerequisite to understanding their true meaning or the lessons they taught. | ||
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Bradley. Just one of you my friend makes up for 100 Dr Feelgoods. | ||
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Member Posts: 2393 Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | walleye express - 3/31/2008 9:05 AM Ahhhh, too be young and mentally sterile again. When just being able to read words was never a prerequisite to understanding their true meaning or the lessons they taught. :-)
That is absolutely hilarious!!! Too bad few understood the meaning of this too !!
Dan you crack me up. | ||
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Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Sunshine - 3/31/2008 5:11 PM walleye express - 3/31/2008 9:05 AM Ahhhh, too be young and mentally sterile again. When just being able to read words was never a prerequisite to understanding their true meaning or the lessons they taught. :-)
That is absolutely hilarious!!! Too bad few understood the meaning of this too !!
Dan you crack me up. It's called "talking up to people" Dennis versus talking down, using blatant insults. You get both your jab and your own point across, but it draws less fire from the trouble makers who don't really grasp what your saying. Edited by walleye express 4/1/2008 8:40 AM | ||
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