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Fishing Gear: Purchase Quality Or Quantity?
March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
If you walk into your local fishing shop, you are likely to find a wide range of fishing gear. For the beginner, it can be hard to determine just what is out there and what you should be purchasing. While you may want to purchase products and gear that are specific to your tastes, it is much more important to purchase products that are of high quality instead. So, what do you look for and how do you know what to get? To know, here are some guidelines you should follow.
• First, determine what type of fish, what type of fishing and where you are headed to fish. Fishing gear is specific first to the type of fishing that you plan to do. You’ll need a different fishing rod for saltwater fishing than you will for freshwater fishing. Now, on to what type of fish you are after. You’ll need to know what weight of line you should purchase as well. You may need a heavier line if you are heading out for King Salmon rather than the small trout in your local pond. And, when it comes to the area, you’ll also need to know what the fish like. Some lures work on fish better than others. You can find this out by talking to the local fishing tackle employee.
• How much to purchase depends on what you plan to invest. The more that you purchase, though does nothing to make you a better fisherman. What you need is to insure that you get quality products that will withstand your adventure. Quality is always necessary.
• For the beginner, knowledge is also the key to success. If you haven’t been out there just yet, you should take along an experienced individual to help you. That way you get the best results and you get the education you need to do it on your own next time.
Fishing gear is fishing gear, right? It is not all the same and it is not easy to purchase unless you know what to get. The best way to know what to take with you on your next fishing adventure is to ask the local fishing tackle specialist in that area. They will be glad to tell you all that you need to know to head out. And, they may even tell you where a great fishing spot is located too.
This article was written by T.Potter. You can visit Discount Fishing Gear for further information about all types of fishing gear.
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Mar
17
Why Pharmacists Love Fishing
March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Fishing is a very old form of recreation.
Actually, it was meant to be a form of subsistence,but men quickly found out that everyday chores like cleaning sabor toothed tiger rugs and starting fires, could easily be avoided while lazily floundering at sea-well out of the earshot of Mrs. Cro Magnonson.
One way you can tell that fishing is very old,is by the vocabulary and words that were formed to describe the acts of fishing.
Let me explain.
Words like “fish”, “net”, “worm”, “bait”, “row”, “carp”, “hook”, “boat” and so on are words that we use to describe fishing.
Much like having an account at your local bank that reads number “0124″–the use of three and four letter words must have been used early on in the timeline of the”word forming process”. So, just like being an early customer of that bank with a low account number, the two or three cavemen that sat down around the ring of fire and started forming gutteral sounds to help describe actions, obviously tried to keep the syllables to a minimum, and then progress into multi syllable words as language moved forward.
Why work harder than you had to?
“Grog” might have pointed to that “thing” in the water and grunted out “FFHHIISSHH”.
Lo and behold, that “thing” became a “fish”.
OK– that may not be the most accurate depiction of how words were created, but you still get the point, that it would make sense that the less complicated words of language must have emerged early on , in the communication process.
Good thing too, because by nature, fishermen don’t communicate much.
In fact many of the same gutteral sounds uttered by early man, are still used today, especially when fishing.
“Beer”
“Huh?”
“Beer!”
“Here”
“Thanks”
And that is a rather chatty session.
Sometimes, it’s just “odd body sounds” that help make up a good heart to heart fishing buddy chat.
But that’s another topic.
Enter the pharmacist.
Modern medicine and it’s seemingly endless discovery of new wonder drugs, is obviously a modern day phenomenon. Sure, they used to be called “drugs”,(and again keeping with the one syllable- been around along time theory) which was easily grunted out and then administered after the “medicine mans” lengthy disco fire dance and ritual.
Now, they are called “pharmaceuticals”.
Whoa, that alone ought to tell you these things haven’t been around very long.
Maybe it was early man’s propensity for wacky ritual and lengthy fire dance,before sending the patient into his herb induced hallucination, that evolved into today’s lengthy names for “pharmaceuticals”.
Kind of a disco fire dance with words, before treating Grog’s hemmorhoidal itch.
Names like:Esomeprozole magnesium, Acetaminophen, aminoglutethimide,carbidopa levodopa, medroxyprogesterone,and my personal favorite,Desogestrelethinylestradiol.
Try running those through your spell check!
Or, if you happen to be a Cro Magnon-try gruntin’ one of those words out of your larynx.
Could you imagine having a nice twenty five inch rainbow trout laying broadside next to the boat and having to ask for the Fluticasone Propionate, so you could get your Propylthioracil Lederele on board.
That’s enough to give a fisherman gastroesophogeal reflux disease.
I don’t know about your pharmacist, but my pharmacist is a man of few words-AND IT IS NO SMALL WONDER!!
After a day of flutacusamotapheneolathenes, and arythamythaprophalactix, –”hello” and “thanks” are about all the poor chap can muster up.
Just like the plumber who most certainly has no interest in replacing a washer in his own faucet, the last thing a pharmacist wants to do when he gets home is use multisyllabic words.
If we are only given so many syllables in this lifetime, a pharmacist would hate to have spent his allotment on Mrs. Weinstein’s festering Histoplasmosis.
So. “Dave”, my pharmacist, goes fly fishing.
And I’ve got to think, that “Dave”, couldn’t have helped being drawn to this simplistic recreational pastime we call fishing, in part because all he needed was a “rod”, “reel” and “fly”.
It doesn’t get much simpler than that.It’s like dropping into a soothing tub of monosyllable words.
Anything more would be a real cause for using hydrochlorothorizide…..
A.J. Klott
Author, writer of fishing humor,and “fly tack” peddler. A.J. writes about the people, characters and modern day events that surround the fishing world. His first book is due out in December of 2005.
If you need a laugh or a fun gift, visit his website at:
http://www.twoguyswithflys.com
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