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#2325624 - 06/02/08 10:33 AM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: go_cats_go]
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Loc: Lake Arrowhead, Clay Co., Texa...
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#2325662 - 06/02/08 10:49 AM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: go_cats_go]
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Registered: 04/24/08
Posts: 147
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It's kinda funny how people fish , who are we to judge anyone . Just remember The Good Load fished with a net . I don't hear anyone judging him . So Mr. King fish how you want,,, we'll do the same . Just because you dont see something the way other people see it , sometime it helps to just sit back in the corner and keep mouth closed . I've dont it and I'm bet'en you can too. It's a fishen form , Man get over it .
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#2325773 - 06/02/08 11:26 AM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: opus]
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Registered: 03/16/04
Posts: 2919
Loc: Royse City,TX
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I dont hate anyone. well you tell me why leave a line in the water baited or not that your not goin to check for a few days besides being too LAZY to take it with you. WHAT IS THE REASONING FOR IT. IM JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND TELL ME WHY?? AND WHAT IS ETHICAL ABOUT LEAVING FISH ON A LINE FOR 3 OR 4 DAYS. GUESS YOUR SENCE OF ETHICS IS A LOT DIFFERENT THAN MINE it takes hours to set up a proper trotline. Nobody who has set out a proper line is going to remove it everyday. They set them out and leave them. I personally take the hook off my line when i'm not using it and drop the mainline to the bottom. And as far as not checking it for a few days...well what if i set it out and then my boat has problems...am i lazy because my boat wont start to go check my line..??
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#2326153 - 06/02/08 01:03 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: McLovin]
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Registered: 01/21/05
Posts: 798
Loc: College Station
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I have a question for Albert. Not being a smart-A or anything like that. Actually it's four questions.
1.) When was the last time you actually set a "trotline" out?
2.) Is it still out with hooks on it?
3.) When was the last time you've set a trotline in a heavily fished/boated lake like Lake Lewisville or Tawakoni???
4.) Where would you say you've done the majority of your line fishing whether it be trotline, throwline or jug?
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#2326266 - 06/02/08 01:37 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: ScooterG]
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Registered: 07/15/07
Posts: 688
Loc: west tx no. of waco
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Well to answer a DUMB question YES your lazy if your motor wont crank once a WEEK and too LAZY to fix it
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#2326275 - 06/02/08 01:39 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: opus]
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Registered: 03/16/04
Posts: 2919
Loc: Royse City,TX
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Well to answer a DUMB question YES your lazy if your motor wont crank once a WEEK and too LAZY to fix it ok...say i'm not a boat mechanic and cant fix myself and cant afford to pay somebody to fix it. does that make me lazy?
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#2326306 - 06/02/08 01:47 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: McLovin]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 07/15/07
Posts: 688
Loc: west tx no. of waco
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Explain what a proper line is please has never taken me over 30min to set mine and caught all the fish I wanted. bet people would like to know how to set a PROPER line PLEASE EXPLAIN?
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#2326735 - 06/02/08 03:58 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: PolarBear]
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Registered: 05/15/08
Posts: 111
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me too. I'm rookie, and i dont think i spend enough time either. it only takes me over 20 mins to set a line if the current is real bad and im by myself and and the motor keeps stalling out. i need to know how to set up a proper line too.
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#2326877 - 06/02/08 04:46 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: ishootspoonies]
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Registered: 03/28/06
Posts: 299
Loc: Waco, Texas
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You know these "discussions" are the same thing time after time. At first, it bothered me a little  , the arguements  and fighting back and forth  , but now, I'm used to it, so I just sit back  , read and shake my head  . Sometimes its the same folks, and other times, its newer people who haven't been around her enough to see does what to whom. Its like a little catfishin' soap opera  on a computer screen.
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#2327174 - 06/02/08 05:55 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: ScooterG]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 08/22/05
Posts: 1483
Loc: post, tx
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I have a question for Albert. Not being a smart-A or anything like that. Actually it's four questions.
1.) When was the last time you actually set a "trotline" out?
2.) Is it still out with hooks on it?
3.) When was the last time you've set a trotline in a heavily fished/boated lake like Lake Lewisville or Tawakoni???
4.) Where would you say you've done the majority of your line fishing whether it be trotline, throwline or jug?
1. 2 years ago (been fishing with jugs) 2. no 3. never 4. Stamford Lake, Hubbard Creek Lake, Clear Fork of the Brazos
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#2327936 - 06/02/08 11:09 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: albertking]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 01/21/05
Posts: 798
Loc: College Station
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Thanks Albert. I knew the answer to some of them already but if folks will pay a little attention they'll get the point.
Albert doesn't trotline much anymore and if he did it wouldn't be in the metroplex or any place like that. I wouldn't either. Danny does but he's got his spots figured out.
The thing that I feel eats Albert up is the ignorance that people from big or bigger cites in heavily populated areas is this....country folks don't want you telling them what to do. Period. Your home owners association would have a fit at what "some" country folks have laying in their yard...but that's why they don't live there and never would.
Ya'll have got to remember that it takes all kinds.
Here is where the problem lies. When all this retoric goes flying around it ends up in state and national publications. This pressures law makers into thinking that the "entire" public would benefit and that is completely wrong. By making statewide reg changes it puts the squeeze on the little man from the sticks. When things like that start to rear their ugly head these people( who have seen it time and again with their lifstyle) see it changing and they get furious inside. Back a rattle snake into a corner and see what happens.
It gets ugly and you get what we have here....a word war between guys that really love the same thing. Now I know that some of you hold a huge grudge for Albert. It shows in both sides comments for each other.
I challenge you to see where the other guy is coming from whether it be country or city and cut this nonsense out.
I heard a great comment one time that goes like this " You have to make a decision on how you react to something,,, you have to choose to be mad and let it eat on you or choose not to be and go on with your life". It's not ducking your head. Its choosing to be content in the things that you do.
I know some of you will bash me for saying this and guess what...thats the choice you've made. Hopefully some of you will see it and move on to whatever makes you happy.
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#2327950 - 06/03/08 12:12 AM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: ScooterG]
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Registered: 02/20/05
Posts: 8207
Loc: Kopperl,Tx.
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Thanks Albert. I knew the answer to some of them already but if folks will pay a little attention they'll get the point.
Albert doesn't trotline much anymore and if he did it wouldn't be in the metroplex or any place like that. I wouldn't either. Danny does but he's got his spots figured out.
The thing that I feel eats Albert up is the ignorance that people from big or bigger cites in heavily populated areas is this....country folks don't want you telling them what to do. Period. Your home owners association would have a fit at what "some" country folks have laying in their yard...but that's why they don't live there and never would.
Ya'll have got to remember that it takes all kinds.
Here is where the problem lies. When all this retoric goes flying around it ends up in state and national publications. This pressures law makers into thinking that the "entire" public would benefit and that is completely wrong. By making statewide reg changes it puts the squeeze on the little man from the sticks. When things like that start to rear their ugly head these people( who have seen it time and again with their lifstyle) see it changing and they get furious inside. Back a rattle snake into a corner and see what happens.
It gets ugly and you get what we have here....a word war between guys that really love the same thing. Now I know that some of you hold a huge grudge for Albert. It shows in both sides comments for each other.
I challenge you to see where the other guy is coming from whether it be country or city and cut this nonsense out.
I heard a great comment one time that goes like this " You have to make a decision on how you react to something,,, you have to choose to be mad and let it eat on you or choose not to be and go on with your life". It's not ducking your head. Its choosing to be content in the things that you do.
I know some of you will bash me for saying this and guess what...thats the choice you've made. Hopefully some of you will see it and move on to whatever makes you happy.  Well said ScooterG!! Some of these people's words are as stupid as I've ever read anywhere!!I live on the Brazos river, I can have my boat in the water in 15 minutes or less, depends on the traffic at the ramp by cityslickers that dont know sheep$h17 from cottonseed about what they are doing! LOL! I try to keep a line in the water all spring, when it gets hot & humid, I cannot breathe without oxygen, so I take it up! I have had lines cut, stolen fish off them & lines completely stolen, all because I choose to have them marked with jugs, so hopefully some idiot with more money than brains in his $50,000.00 bass boat will not throw his high dollar baits across it & get hung up on my well marked line & the rich idiot gets pissed off because a lowly trotliner has violated his space & cuts my line that I spent several bucks & hours to handmake! I do not fish the main parts of the river, I like the holes that I've found several years ago to set my lines & most of them have treestumps to tie the lines to & are surrounded by shallow water, so if a knucklehead gets my line wrapped up in his prop, he ain't got no business getting out in a boat, he is a hazard to himself & others as well! I catch my best yellowcats in 3-8 feet of water with the channel within 20 foot of the shallows! I've roamed up & down the Brazos river most of my life with my grandpa & old family friends! Most of the good holes of water have been there for years, unchanged by the different floods that have occured, that is where the best fishing is for trotliners, these old holes of water were discovered before all the fancy electronics of today too! I'm gonna shut up now, I'm rambling, butwhat it all boils down to is that there is different strokes for different folks! Us old country boys just like to mind our own business & take care of our own interest, I'd suggest the rest doing the same & there will be less hate & discontent about what we all have in common, CATFISHING!!!
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#2327967 - 06/03/08 01:03 AM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: Hank1951]
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Registered: 03/03/06
Posts: 28
Loc: Killeen, Tx
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damn, another trotline thread  whatever happened to people posting up fishing reports or tips that can help out a new fisherman i'ma have to agree with Big Zee on this one though, I don't think you could sum it up any better than that because it is all about good sportsmanship, but at the same time its also about common sense...and there's a lot of people on this site that post a bunch of [censored] that just doesn't make any sense
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#2328000 - 06/03/08 02:35 AM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: Versetyle]
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Registered: 04/01/03
Posts: 1632
Loc: Sherman, Texas
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***Voice of "The Captain" in Cool Hand Luke"*** "Line 'em up Mr. Hunnicut!" "It seems you men have been having some problems with trotlining! We gonna get your mind RIGHT! and I mean.....RIGHT!" "Luke! Fetch the yellow-handled Barlow!" "Yes sir, Boss Paul!" ***Voice of Strother Martin*** "Now men....I don't like it, any more than you do. Take a good look at Luke.........Cool Hand Luke?" ***Luke*** "Hey Hey Boss! Look at that! Cut in twenty pieces and still wrapped around the lower unit of a 200 hp Merc!" ***Strother*** "You come on up outta there Luke....go on and get you some rest. Cause we gonna get your mind.......RIGHT!!  
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#2329870 - 06/03/08 01:35 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: Kat-man-do]
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Registered: 05/25/07
Posts: 262
Loc: new braunfels
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scooter g you should run for president!! well said especially from us country bumbkins
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#2329926 - 06/03/08 01:49 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: fishinnb]
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Registered: 11/15/03
Posts: 816
Loc: Canyon Lake, Texas USA
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HOA's are stupid. They are for the "Snootyville" people that have to have everything perfect....in other words, grass blades no higher than X amount of height. What is ridiculous is the fact that most of these neighborhoods have no trees. You can also reach out of your bathroom window to grab your neighbors shampoo if you run out. La De Da! You have umpteen hundred square feet. Look at your backyard! You don't have squat! I live on an acre, and it's a skinny acre that runs up a hill, but at least I don't have to worry about turning my surround sound system up full blast without bothering anyone. My boat sits in my "front" yard. The HOA for the subdivision up the road collects fees for keeping up the park, swimming pool, and boat ramp. People in the "subdivision" have their project sailboats in full glory out in their front yards. THAT'S a HOA! Suburbia is such a totallitarian society. Put some TREES in your neighborhood to call it a neighborhood, you pompus elites! Bunch of stiffs, if you ask me. God forbid, if they would loosen up, drink a beer, get a line wet, and enjoy the true pleasures of life like fishing! That might just be enough persuasion to pull that stick out of their
Steven
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#2330015 - 06/03/08 02:13 PM
Re: trotline obsession
[Re: Steven168]
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Registered: 05/15/08
Posts: 111
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i like fishing. i like catfishing i like catfishing with trotlines. i like bass fishing i dont like snagging lines while i'm bass fishing. i like duck hunting i dont like getting my legs caught in trot lines while hunting i like reading this forum i like debating all these issues it gets me through the day. 
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#2333090 - 06/04/08 11:32 AM
Re: trotline obsession
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Registered: 01/25/01
Posts: 1184
Loc: Alvarado, Tx, Johnson
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1st rule of life; Watch where you put your feet
2nd rule of life, if you must duck hunt get a boat.
3rd rule of life make yourself a good example when you bass fish, respect other peoples property and space but don't expect much as the damage has already been done.
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#2333229 - 06/04/08 12:04 PM
Re: trotline obsession
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rickt300
3rd rule of life make yourself a good example when you bass fish, respect other peoples property and space but don't expect much as the damage has already been done
That in its self sums it up.
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