Where's your measuring stick?

[JamesCoste]

Went fishing off of St. Marks Lighthouse here in Florida with my two sons, a friend and his son. On the first cast, caught a smallish speckled trout. Decided to measure him just to see how big he was; however, I didn't have a single sticker on the boat that had a ruler on it. <br /><br />I just restored this boat and the only fishing I had done was freshwater fishing for bream. Who needs a ruler for bream fishing? Nobody. Who needs one for speckled trout? Well, I do.<br /><br />We caught a few sharks, catfish, and kept the boys on the pinfish to keep them occupied. We only kept one 30" black-tipped shark for supper (measured him when I got home). I was actually glad that we only caught 4 or 5 speckled trout that were clearly too small or I would have beat myself up all day for wondering if we were releasing the trout that were questionable.<br /><br />When we got to the landing, the game warden did a courteousy check of my safety equipment and gave me a nice sticker with a 36" ruler on it. Next trip, I'm prepaired!

 

[tomatolord]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

broken retainer on winch<br /><br />The clicker part <br /><br />Ok - same 17ft boat, <br /><br />brother is winching it on board, it has rollers so it is hard to float it on.<br /><br />winch - winch - winch away!!<br /><br />He pauses to take a breather<br />lets go of handle<br />Handle free wheels!!<br />smacks both hands with tremendous force leaving large bruises and welts on both hands<br />as the boat plummets back into the water undoing the last 10 minutes or so of winching.<br /><br />DAD - oh yeah thats broken and I have to fix it<br /><br />I am still laughin even today at the murderous look my brother had in his eyes when my dad said that if his hands were not crippled I think he would have choked him!

 

[jtexas]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

James, I only just have the one built-in measuring stick, but it only goes up to 10 inches.<br /><br />[edit] Sorry, I've been corrected; she says it's not even close to 10"; guess I'll have to get a yardstick.

 

[Twidget]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

Well, JTexas you know why women have depth perception problems dont you? All their adult lives, they have been told<br />[<----------------------------------------->] is 8 inches.

 

[Realgun]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

Well, JTexas you know why women have depth perception problems dont you? All their adult lives, they have been told<br />[<----------------------------------------->] is 8 inches.

OMG now thats funny. That explains a few things too.

 

[Seamus]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

Originally posted by JamesCoste:<br /> When we got to the landing, the game warden did a courteousy check of my safety equipment and gave me a nice sticker with a 36" ruler on it.

"Courtesy check"? Free ruler? From a game warden? Huh... Maybe I live in the wrong state...

 

[JamesCoste]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

Seamus,<br />It might have helped that I mentioned that my FIL is a retired Major in the Game Commission and was simply curious "if he knew him". He didn't, but was real polite to me, gave me a free sticker and courteousy check. I honestly think he would have given me one anyhow.

 

[skeezx01]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

jtex, twidget, realgun<br />have you ever seen a house built by women carpenters? 3/4 scale for whatever reason

 

[Twidget]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

Skeezx01... can I quote you on that?

 

[skeezx01]

Re: Where's your measuring stick?

yeah sure<br />who cares anywho.at point blank range it's the caliber that matters not how long yer barrel is.