Next time I visit France with my wife, we'll have to go on a double date canoeing trip.
Worth thinking about.
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When's the last time you went fishing?
- Thread starter Cooky
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Worth thinking about.
I forgot to say, the view from Florimont-Gaumier is essentially the same for 360 degrees. The highest point for more than 100km in any direction.
Milton Platt
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Day before yesterday...but then, I live on a lake.
On a lake or beside a lakel
So did we. My favorite story about that concerns my elder brother the engineer. Even as a young man, he loved to build things. So he borrowed a few of Dad's tools and took a long 2 by 10 plank and some other lumber to build a higher diving board. So he chopped down some green trees, took spikes and axe, and over about 5 hours on a Sunday afternoon, with assistance and hard work from brothers managed to construct a diving platform, albeit wobbly, high enough and extending out enough to be quite the adventure for jumping, diving through inner-tubes, and that sort of fun summer thing. But then one week it rained, and we didn't go down, as the river muddied up and got faster, making it tough for swimming.
When we finally did go back, brother was dismayed because the platform was leaning forward, and the plank appeared to be ready to slip into the river. Upon further inspection, he saw the obvious teeth marks of beaver on the bottom of the now shortened main front posts. The valley was all ears to the resultant descriptive blue curses about them gnawing rodents.
But then later, he rebuilt it all with the help of an old stovepipe to protect the new green trees from the cursed guys. Metal ain't really for chewing.
Last time I went fishing was with my grandfather when I was about 8 years old. Not quite 50 years ago.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Oh you were just little then...
My wife told me a story about when she was little and her dad took her fishing, apparently she went to cast overhead, and when pulling forward, it got stuck on something...
...All she remembers is her dad screaming "Damn it"! Apparently the hook was snagged on his head.
She dies laughing everytime she tells that story.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Sounds rough. Cuyahoga National park looks really nice in the summer though.. I think that would be a great fishing vacation spot for late summer... During the day.
cuyahoga valley national park - Google Search
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Last time was August. I have a nice lazy brook that borders my land.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Oh you were just little then...
My wife told me a story about when she was little and her dad took her fishing, apparently she went to cast overhead, and when pulling forward, it got stuck on something...
...All she remembers is her dad screaming "Damn it"! Apparently the hook was snagged on his head.
She dies laughing everytime she tells that story.
My son was practising casting with his grandfather's gear. Somehow he manage to get the barbed hook stuck in his rear end. We ended up a the local hospital. Some freezing, some twisting of metal, 3 stitches later, and he was out.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Yikes..!
Could be another reason i im not a fishing person
Cooky
Veteran Member
I never really enjoyed it when I was little, probably because my dad took me to some really crappy lakes, like Wolf Lake IN, which was basically polluted and surrounded by oil refineries... It was no fun, too windy and just basically an ugly lake.
Wolf Lake (Indiana–Illinois) - Wikipedia
Why isnt there a sad frube?