Environment Is All That Matters

[oneshot]

8 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

When I go outside my little home range it's simply for a small adventure with my buddies.  I have hauled my boat to Kirksville in early may to catch crappie and camp out.  Pointing out every access road that ked to Pomme, Truman, and LOZ that we could stop at and catch a limit of crappie and eat supper at home.  But it's the trip with buddies that make the trip, have had several that disn't pan out for crappie, mushrooms, or turkeys but still had a dang good time.  We camp in a barn on this old farmers place and end up helping him do oddjobs, might be replacing a broken front spindle on his old tractor, building a trailer or whatever odd little things he might need.  Often just as much fun as the hunting and fishing.

Use to go hunting with bunch of guys. My wife over time said all I wanted to do is drink and act fool can do that at home a lot cheaper.

oneshot

[jdmidwest]

Oneshot, that wife of yours is a buzzkill.

She sure likes to put a damper on all of your fun.

 

[ness]

14 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

Oneshot, you may be the only person I have ever heard say "I like the looks of Oklahoma".  Maybe I just haven't seen enough of it.  

Visited Northern OK last fall and I was pleasantly surprised with the scenery. Rolling forested hills and also the southern edge of the Flint Hills. 

[Johnsfolly]

I fish all over for the experiences. New creeks, lakes, and especially for different fish. I do love the comfort of home waters but you can't catch tuna in LOZ or the Niangua. 

[fishinwrench]

13 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

I fish all over for the experiences. New creeks, lakes, and especially for different fish. I do love the comfort of home waters but you can't catch tuna in LOZ or the Niangua. 

Luckily it comes in cans, and it's cheap as hell.  

[Johnsfolly]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Luckily it comes in cans, and it's cheap as hell.  

Catching one is a lot more fun than opening a can, but to each his own😁.

[fishinwrench]

6 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Catching one is a lot more fun than opening a can, but to each his own😁.

It would be if I didn't have to depend on (and pay) so many other people to make it happen.  

I'd have to literally rain money from Gravois Mills to the coast and back, like a trip to the world's largest strip club.   Just for a tuna salad sandwich.

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1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

Just for a tuna salad sandwich.

I don't like tuna salad that much.  I caught a yellowfin in Maui and by the fight I thought it was going to weigh a hundred pounds.  Came in around 40.  That thing pulled like a freight train.  But if someone else isn't paying for the trip I'll pass.

[Quillback]

In August and September the albacore tuna run up the Pacific coast as far north as Washington.  You could go on a tuna trip out of Westport WA.  The fish were way offshore so the charter boat would leave late in the afternoon and chug all night out to where the tuna were.  You'd fish all the next day, then chug back that night.  If things went right, they'd literally fill the boat with tuna, and it would just wear people out fighting those things.  Never went myself, I can get seasick and nothing would be worse than being on a boat for 36 hours and being sicker than a dog.

And in the summer you could buy whole frozen albacore for like a $1/pound at the docks.  Albacore is what they use for canned tuna and that's about what it tastes like.  Not bad on the grill.

[fishinwrench]

A 36 hour boat ride?

No freakin' way!  People actually pay to do that?