Fear & Loathing on the Fox River...

jeweler jim

[font=times new roman,times,serif]Been higher, but not by much...[/font]<br />
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[font=times new roman,times,serif]If the pumps don't crap out...[/font]<br />
[font=times new roman,times,serif]If we don't lose power and/or the generator will start...[/font]<br />
[font=times new roman,times,serif]And if it drops a few inches by Sunday I'll be at the shoot...[/font]

jeweler jim

[font=times new roman,times,serif]Didn't want to let me post both pictures for some reason...[/font]<br />
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[font=times new roman,times,serif]This is the far view looking at the same corner of the house with the basement under it...[/font]<br />
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dd

I see JJ left out the photo of the ugly one found swimming in the basement.

jeweler jim

[font=times new roman,times,serif]If I post that one I'd have to explain and there ain't anyone who'd believe that that was one of the smaller ones...[/font]

Papau

That's why we moved off the river in Algonquin after two years of the flooding. Beautiful but a PIMA.

dd

OK, if JJ is too ashamed to post the photo, I'll do it myself. This beautiful fish was captured when it saw a younger version of JJ and died of fright.<br />
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Saguaro Kid

The guy holding the fish has hair!

jeweler jim

'Saguaro wrote:

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The guy holding the fish has hair!<br />

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[font=times new roman,times,serif]Which guy?[/font]

Orrin Sackett

That sure is a Purdy lookin' cat!

Snidely Whiplash

Is JJ the one in the middle? <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />

King Medallion

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Is JJ the one in the middle? <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' /><br />
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LMAO!!!

Saguaro Kid

I'm still amazed that this thread wound up in the watering hole!

jeweler jim

[font=times new roman,times,serif]Looks like Lizzie and I will make the match on Sunday as the river is dropping and I am down to using just the one pump.[/font]

jeweler jim

'Orrin wrote:

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That sure is a Purdy lookin' cat!<br />

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[font=times new roman,times,serif]Had them on my sets that went well over a hundred pounds. Won't say what we used for bait, but you could crawl up inside the head/mouth of the bigger ones. Had some who wouldn't fish with me after they saw what we occasionally hooked up with. Broke dropped forged stainless 10/0 hooks and had one that broke ski rope that I used for the main lines of the sets. Hooks were usually tied with anything from 100 to 250 pound test mono. All salt water gear that the bigger ones were able to trash pretty much as they wished. [/font]<br />
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[font=times new roman,times,serif]Okay, live bait that were two to three pound fish and I can't seem to remember what kind they were <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/diablo.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':diablo:' /> . Had one kid with one night that almost soiled himself when he saw what we were going to try to bring into the boat with us[/font][font=times new roman,times,serif] [/font][font=times new roman,times,serif].[/font]

King Medallion

Do you actually eat those things?

jeweler jim

[font=times new roman,times,serif]The only thing better coming out of the smoke house would be the brown trout that I have occasionally brought back from Racine. The one in the picture had four to five pounds of meat just in the head. Again, I prefer it to the salmon and lake trout that I've done from Lake Michigan. Secret is in the brining solution and then a ten to twelve hour cold smoke.[/font]<br />
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[font=times new roman,times,serif]Don't have the smoke house anymore and miss the ability to do it. <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cray.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':cray:' /> Always did anywhere from sixty to eighty pounds at a time[/font][font=times new roman,times,serif] [/font][font=times new roman,times,serif].[/font]

dd

Just remembered where you got that fish -<br />
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Snidely Whiplash

'jeweler wrote:

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[font=times new roman,times,serif]Looks like Lizzie and I will make the match on Sunday as the river is dropping and I am down to using just the one pump.[/font]<br />

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You can double-check with Ms Leadfoot, but I think you used the wrong pump on Sunday. <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shellssm1.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shellssm1:' /> <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shellssm1.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shellssm1:' /> <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shellssm1.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shellssm1:' /> <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shellssm1.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shellssm1:' /> <img src='http://www.goodguysposse.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shellssm1.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shellssm1:' />

jeweler jim

[font=times new roman,times,serif]Next month is St. Jude Match and I'm thinking I'll be able to concentrate on shooting the match so we'll see how well she does against me then. It's taken her nine years to get me so I suppose I can cut her some slack. Really beating my time ain't for bragging when you consider they time me with an egg timer. [/font]<br />
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[font=times new roman,times,serif]Stay tuned and I'll report after the the St. Jude Match...[/font]