08-26-2006, 11:53 AM
[cool][#0000ff]I also have a "very close acquaintance" who has been known to sneak into small ponds that are not "user-friendly" when guarded during the daytime.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While living in Santa Barbara, California, I was a lunch guest of a friend who was a member of a hoity-toity golf course. As we munched our meal, I watched a mama duck lead her half dozen ducklings along the edges of some cattails on one of the water hazards. KABLOOSH! One of the little duckies was gone and the rest skittered across the water and up onto the grass.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Under threat of great bodily harm, my friend agreed to smuggle me back in later that night. Before we were caught by the night guard, I had taken (and released) several toad bass on topwater chuggers. Didn't even have to glue any duck feathers on them. If my buddy had not been a well known member I would not have gotten in...and I probably wouldn't have gotten out alive. Those golfers take life far too seriously and don't have any compassion for us fisherfolk. Great memory though.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While living in Santa Barbara, California, I was a lunch guest of a friend who was a member of a hoity-toity golf course. As we munched our meal, I watched a mama duck lead her half dozen ducklings along the edges of some cattails on one of the water hazards. KABLOOSH! One of the little duckies was gone and the rest skittered across the water and up onto the grass.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Under threat of great bodily harm, my friend agreed to smuggle me back in later that night. Before we were caught by the night guard, I had taken (and released) several toad bass on topwater chuggers. Didn't even have to glue any duck feathers on them. If my buddy had not been a well known member I would not have gotten in...and I probably wouldn't have gotten out alive. Those golfers take life far too seriously and don't have any compassion for us fisherfolk. Great memory though.[/#0000ff]
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