02-02-2005, 05:58 AM
I think this could be the longest thread I've seen on BFT!
Well some may think that my name came from being a catfisherman.... Well I have caught only one in my life and it was so ugly that I cut my line rather than unhook it and then threw it back! I know somebody on here (Sorry I can't remember who) says there are no ugly catfish, only ugly catfisherman. So please notice that my BFT name is not "Beautiful one" for a reason!
Since I don't care much for catfish then I must really love cats right. WRONG! I'm not a cruel person but I'd rather shoot one than look at it. This stems from living in California where there are too many stray cats (owned and fed by someone but never contained)and for some reason they all would poop in my flowerbed and on my lawn. I couldn't even go out and play on my lawn with my kids without checking for land mines first. I felt many times like I should have my kids poop on the owners porch to prove a point. Then the little sharp clawed creatures would use my nice redwood posts on my fence as scratching posts! It is disrespectful to let your pet run wild and poop in other peoples yard. If you can't close the door and keep it inside or fence it in then....... Anyway you get the point. And I'm alergic to the furry little flea bags as well. Well now I feel much better after all that!
So the real reason for Bigcat is a little complex but I'll try to keep it short because I have already digressed. My Bacherlors degree in college is in Sports Medicine. Once you graduate you take a national board exam to become a Certified Athletic Trainer (Thats the guy that runs out on the football field when a player goes down). My friends thought that I would then have the initials after my name of C.A.T. However it is actually A.T.C for Athletic Trainer Certified. However the CAT name stuck and I am not a small person at 6'3'' and 250+ so I got called Bigcat. Its been that way for almost 10 years now.
Wow, I can't even type that much on a fishing report. [
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Well some may think that my name came from being a catfisherman.... Well I have caught only one in my life and it was so ugly that I cut my line rather than unhook it and then threw it back! I know somebody on here (Sorry I can't remember who) says there are no ugly catfish, only ugly catfisherman. So please notice that my BFT name is not "Beautiful one" for a reason!
Since I don't care much for catfish then I must really love cats right. WRONG! I'm not a cruel person but I'd rather shoot one than look at it. This stems from living in California where there are too many stray cats (owned and fed by someone but never contained)and for some reason they all would poop in my flowerbed and on my lawn. I couldn't even go out and play on my lawn with my kids without checking for land mines first. I felt many times like I should have my kids poop on the owners porch to prove a point. Then the little sharp clawed creatures would use my nice redwood posts on my fence as scratching posts! It is disrespectful to let your pet run wild and poop in other peoples yard. If you can't close the door and keep it inside or fence it in then....... Anyway you get the point. And I'm alergic to the furry little flea bags as well. Well now I feel much better after all that!
So the real reason for Bigcat is a little complex but I'll try to keep it short because I have already digressed. My Bacherlors degree in college is in Sports Medicine. Once you graduate you take a national board exam to become a Certified Athletic Trainer (Thats the guy that runs out on the football field when a player goes down). My friends thought that I would then have the initials after my name of C.A.T. However it is actually A.T.C for Athletic Trainer Certified. However the CAT name stuck and I am not a small person at 6'3'' and 250+ so I got called Bigcat. Its been that way for almost 10 years now.
Wow, I can't even type that much on a fishing report. [
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