That's an interesting outcome to a thread about backing on a reel. I forgot what the pre-hijack subject matter was for a minute.

I like Steez. I too have made it a point to be confident, effective, and successful while also taking pains to be reasonable, dignified, and polite. No matter how polite one is, though, many people get their knickers in a knot and blow their tops when anyone presents himself as anything above a lowly wretch.

It's funny how threatened people become over nothing, allowing their insecurities to conspicuously intrude on an affair like a pot boiling over as they pepper the internet with ill-composed attempts to call out what they perceive to be intolerable arrogance. The world is becoming nuttier than a two ton pallet of Whitman's Samplers.

Good luck, Steez.

They want me to fail. I probably am biting off a good chunk. But, if I thought I couldn't, I never would try. So, as my mentality has been for many years, I think I can ......so I just might. Might not. Nothing keeps a person focused as well as accepting challenges and commiting to them. I have never been and never will be a quitter. I have never backed down from a challenge. This is not a dare! It's a challenge. And Saturday, I will have a new respect for Okie, and I am positive he will respect me. We have set times and agreements to this via PM. He understands what kind of person I am, as I do him. We will take pictures. If I lose, I will be the first to admit it here. If I win, he will admit it. Either way, we both feel that this is something we both have to do now. He and I have a lot of the same feelings about challenges and we both repsct each other. Maybe more after this weekend. But for now, we have agreed to the terms. While the rest of you just get to smile, and read, and wonder what fulfillment YOU will get out of your fishing this weekend. He and I will have a lot to talk about and remember. Even if one of us comes up short on weight. It really doesn't matter. We will know that instead of just talking the talk. We walked it.

Well spoken steez

So...no GPS. Only sonar and down scan.
Can I use minnows and live crawfish?

I dink u got doo-doo brain.......

He's just talking out of his arse now. He knows he's going to use his buddies waypoints or he wouldn't have mentioned it. Now that it's bit him he's backtracking. Typical of people who talk a lot, before thinking. And he certainly likes to talk a lot.

There for sure needs to be a live update thread running Saturday.

5 pages. Not counting all the deleted posts. And personal threats to me via PM. Haha. I feel like I might need to change my name and take all the identifying trademark stuff off my jeep and boat. Go REALLY DEEP under cover. might even have to have my Humminbirds erased by the geek squad.

As for Okie.... I guess I will bring some cash. I know the gas stations don't like it when I try to buy a snickers bar with hundred dollar bills. So I will have to just deposit your money on Monday.