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stevedb28
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Posts: 289
Location: nashville, tn
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Random_Facts wrote: I'm 21, I drive for US-Xpress, and make just enough money to live on.
(so now someone either says True, or False to that)
Ok I think I know how this works now =).
I remember being 21 and all the kid type bs I spent money on and the credit cards my wife charged to the hilt (her debt isnt my prob anymore divorce is great). Soooo, id say agree, but youll look back and say "if i could have only spent my money better". If you are 21, no kids, not married and making at least 25k a year if you are just getting by, you need to have a loooong chat with a man named Dave Ramsey. |
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shyykatt
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: MN
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| True- b/c just about everyone I know, regardless of age, is having a tough time gettin' by these days!! :D |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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Twilight Flyer wrote: Sadly for the spot on my living room wall, 'tis a true story. Every word. Had my brother-in-law with me, rolling on the sand and laughing at me. Had about a half dozen people gathered around watching and one lady actually started crying when I lost it. It was a pretty amazing jump...scared me half to death, too. :shock:
Funny thing about that lake, before the Iowa floods back in '93, I believe, there wasn't much more than bass, bluegill, crappie, and some channel cat in there. Decent fishing, but nothing to write home to mother about. When the floods went through, the Iowa River there overflowed it's banks and "stocked" the lake with plenty of really big fish. About 2 months before I was there fishing, they had some kid walking in the water over in the swimming area, dragging his fingers in the water. A muskie went for his hand. Didn't lose any fingers, but ended up with something like 100 stitches to close the wounds. I saw the picture of it on the wall of a nearby bait shop. They built a curtain around the swimming area after that.
I figured both of your things to be true. I've been rowing a boat and had a muskie grab an oar. I tried to swing the oar over the boat and drop it in, but when it hit the side of the boat, it let go. A teenage girl that was swimming in a lake near Oshkosh, WI was attacked by a muskie too. Near Madison, a guy trailing his hand in the water from a canoe had to have stitches too. They do get nasty. And I've had one drag my canoe around Lake Nakomas for more than an hour before it snapped the line. I've also seen another guy fight one for more than 3 hours. In the end, he was crying in his beer in a bar because the fish left him with 12 inches of line on his reel.
A guy and his son brought one into a boat, and clubbed it in the head. They didn't kill it, and when it came to, it started to flop around and twist. When they got it to shore, both of them had legs cut to ribbons. It's a FORMIDABLE fish to have mounted on your wall. |
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Twilight Flyer
Joined: 13 Nov 2002
Posts: 5663
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My old boss has the coolest mounting of a Muskie I've ever seen. He and his wife would go to Manitoba (I think that's where they go) every summer for a couple weeks, fishing. I don't know where it is, but apparently the fishing cabin sits out on a small island surrounded by a huge lake.
Anyway, they were out fishing one morning and he got a really nice strike. Turned out to be a Northern, about 19 inches long. Nothing major, but it would be a fun fight for him. That's about when the 52" Tiger Muskie hit it and refused to let it go. :shock:
Yes, he got it in. Yes, both fish are mounted...the lure in the Northern's mouth and the Northern in the Muskie's mouth. I've seen the mounting and I've seen the pictures taken on the boat with the Muskie clamped on the Northern. Pretty wild stuff. |
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