04-10-2016, 03:33 AM
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... $12.97 per pound of fish. ...
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What a deal you got!
(From my childhood) 41 foot mahogany and teak wood Chris Craft, twin diesel conversation,twin 300 gallon custom stainless steel diesel tanks, radar, loran, rdf, paper chart sonar, ...
The list goes on and on and on, so no point in even getting into fishing equipment and bait. Our fish cost tens of thousands of dollars a pound.
But, then I've caught fish with some string wrapped around a stick with a hook and fried oyster leftovers.
Wow! Free fish! What a deal!
Later in life, I got into fly fishing. The price of fish went up to hundreds per pound. Then I got into fly tying and it went up some more and that's without a boat.
Next, spin casting with lures from shore was productive and cheap at only pennies per pound.
But, I kept buying more and more and better equipment , so the price went way up.
I bought several surf casting rods and reels (still need experienced help to learn surf casting technique) and hope to use them someday on vacation to a coast, so the fish so far cost infinity (or division by zero is undefined).
Lately, it's been ice fishing. Divide Marcum LX-9, high quality rods, reels, lures, line, bags, compartmented trays, tent ... by a few fish and perhaps I'm getting close to that twin diesel deep sea fishing again and I still don't have a boat larger than my fly fishing pontoon boat.
How does any of this make sense for getting food?
Well, perhaps not in these good times, but the skills and equipment have preparedness value for the harsh times to come.
Some see merit to preparedness and are sitting on the fence without making commitments to buying actual supplies and instead buying gold and silver coins.
But, I get the best of both worlds! I own what the fence sitters will want to buy with their gold coins and I get to enjoy the use of it now for practice and skills development for the near future times when I need to catch fish to eat.
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... $12.97 per pound of fish. ...
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What a deal you got!
(From my childhood) 41 foot mahogany and teak wood Chris Craft, twin diesel conversation,twin 300 gallon custom stainless steel diesel tanks, radar, loran, rdf, paper chart sonar, ...
The list goes on and on and on, so no point in even getting into fishing equipment and bait. Our fish cost tens of thousands of dollars a pound.
But, then I've caught fish with some string wrapped around a stick with a hook and fried oyster leftovers.
Wow! Free fish! What a deal!
Later in life, I got into fly fishing. The price of fish went up to hundreds per pound. Then I got into fly tying and it went up some more and that's without a boat.
Next, spin casting with lures from shore was productive and cheap at only pennies per pound.
But, I kept buying more and more and better equipment , so the price went way up.
I bought several surf casting rods and reels (still need experienced help to learn surf casting technique) and hope to use them someday on vacation to a coast, so the fish so far cost infinity (or division by zero is undefined).
Lately, it's been ice fishing. Divide Marcum LX-9, high quality rods, reels, lures, line, bags, compartmented trays, tent ... by a few fish and perhaps I'm getting close to that twin diesel deep sea fishing again and I still don't have a boat larger than my fly fishing pontoon boat.
How does any of this make sense for getting food?
Well, perhaps not in these good times, but the skills and equipment have preparedness value for the harsh times to come.
Some see merit to preparedness and are sitting on the fence without making commitments to buying actual supplies and instead buying gold and silver coins.
But, I get the best of both worlds! I own what the fence sitters will want to buy with their gold coins and I get to enjoy the use of it now for practice and skills development for the near future times when I need to catch fish to eat.
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