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16 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

Pete take your glasses of and move back from the tv the view will improve with distance

 

Google did me the favor and showed images of them WITHOUT makeup.  Whoa!  Looked like something you'd catch below Bagnel Dam.  At night.  With stink bait!  

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Your taste in women are clearly different than mine.   I saw fish gaffs on sale at bass pro.   You’ll need it 😂
 

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4 hours ago, kjackson said:

I guess it helps if you live in the country--

I think "Fisherman's Winter" was in Argentina, it struck me that if it was winter in Canada that a fishing trip in South America should be titled My Other Summer rather than winter. But like I said I don't remember much besides the numerous airports. I know I never finished it. I may have ADD of some sort but if you are going to tell a fish story tell the story.  Some Zane Grey stories are like that seven pages describing  a man on a horse, and another ten pages to describe the view the man sees, I loved Zane Grey stories sixty years ago and not so much anymore. I didn't finish his fishing book either.

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Ah, Zane Grey-- I read just about everything he'd written back in the day and still have a few favorites in the bookshelf.  Haven't read any of them in quite some time, so I'm not sure if they still have appeal.  I did pick up his "The Last of the Plainsmen" at a buck-a-bag used book sale.  I was thinking it was a work of fiction until I googled Buffalo Jones and started reading about him.  Now, I'm wondering how much of that book was factual and how much was fictional.  Roping mountain lions?  Really?  He--meaning Jones-- had to be one tough bird. 

[tjm]

I've seen a crazy cowboy rope a mule deer by the antlers, that turned rodeo real fast. But if he'd been on a trained roping horse I think it would have worked out. That sort of stuff is more about the horses ability than the man's, the actual roping doesn't take any more skill than roping a wild cow. Grey was a prolific writer and after the books started selling it's said he fished 300 days a year. I'll give his fresh water book another try one day. HaigBrown too, maybe.