03-02-2003, 10:09 PM
[cool]Hey, JR. What's the word for WIMP in Japanese? You gonna let a few sensationalized reports scare you away from a good story?
I gotta admit, I look back on the trips I made to Catalina...in the olden days...and wonder how close I ever came to being lunch for those big toothy mothers. That was before the movie Jaws...back when I used a stone float tube. Well, maybe not that far back.
I've mellowed out a lot since my foolhardy youth, but I think I can honestly say I have a greater respect (rhymes with fear) for potential maiming or death while driving than while float tube fishing. And, to bring it down to the realities of this kind of angling, I have had more close calls from crazy boaters and PWC operators...while flotation fishing...than I have from reckless drivers on the freeway.
It all boils down to choices. If we want to do something badly enough, we will find a way to rationalize it. Just like we can rationalize our way out of almost anything we don't want to do. The one exception, of course, is getting out of "honey-do's". But that's another horror story.
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I gotta admit, I look back on the trips I made to Catalina...in the olden days...and wonder how close I ever came to being lunch for those big toothy mothers. That was before the movie Jaws...back when I used a stone float tube. Well, maybe not that far back.
I've mellowed out a lot since my foolhardy youth, but I think I can honestly say I have a greater respect (rhymes with fear) for potential maiming or death while driving than while float tube fishing. And, to bring it down to the realities of this kind of angling, I have had more close calls from crazy boaters and PWC operators...while flotation fishing...than I have from reckless drivers on the freeway.
It all boils down to choices. If we want to do something badly enough, we will find a way to rationalize it. Just like we can rationalize our way out of almost anything we don't want to do. The one exception, of course, is getting out of "honey-do's". But that's another horror story.
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