Shaws Snow day Silliness and Southie Sense of humor Thread

[duluthralphie]

Well alrighty then, Snowflake!!

No, I think I might have said that wrong.. the gloves are sized to fit snowflakes only.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Always need a pair of needle nose with you and can the gloves not be washed?

I just used a regular brown jersey glove to handle walleye because their gill plates are sharp and with cold numb hands I’d often get cut...

I’d just rinse in the lake at the end of the day

 

[OhZark Biddies]

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Faker Eilleen.
I have some great ocean front property for sale and conveniently located close to downtown Fargo.

Send a down payment and it’s yours.


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Oh go play in the road.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Stubby, have you done this before?

I actually did try to remove a fly from a very small snapping turtle. It was in the corner of his mouth but I couldn’t even get close enough without endangering my fingers.

 

[duluthralphie]

Story time (wall of text warning):

In Canada there were a couple spots where we could catch 30 to 40 big northern pike like this one in a day...

those fish were all in the slot limit which is between 26” and 35” or so, and had to be thrown back, but when things were right you could catch them one after another sting the banks

so one day when we really got into them my buddy accidentally dropped our long nosed pliers in the drink and then we had to extract our lures using regular length pliers and sticking our hand into their mouths, so we wrapped a tshirt around our forearm each time and hoped for the best

The thing about pike is they like to roll and twist so they can be pretty hard to handle... so it turned into a two person job for getting the lure out of each fish, and eventually we both got ripped up pretty good, but it was still fun

after that we always took multiple pairs of long nosed pliers

this particular fish came within a different story but is the general size I’m talking about.
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I carry long nosed pliers, however I find hemostats, like these, work better. You have more wiggle room and you can lock the jaws on the hook shaft.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I actually did try to remove a fly from a very small snapping turtle. It was in the corner of his mouth but I couldn’t even get close enough without endangering my fingers.

You didn't flick it hard enough.

 

[Mimi13]

Pro tip: If you ever catch a snapping turtle one good flick to the nose and he’ll open his mouth to allow you to gently retrieve your lure/fly.

Yeah right! More like a shotgun blast!

 

[Krazikatlady64]

Story time (wall of text warning):

In Canada there were a couple spots where we could catch 30 to 40 big northern pike like this one in a day...

those fish were all in the slot limit which is between 26” and 35” or so, and had to be thrown back, but when things were right you could catch them one after another sting the banks

so one day when we really got into them my buddy accidentally dropped our long nosed pliers in the drink and then we had to extract our lures using regular length pliers and sticking our hand into their mouths, so we wrapped a tshirt around our forearm each time and hoped for the best

The thing about pike is they like to roll and twist so they can be pretty hard to handle... so it turned into a two person job for getting the lure out of each fish, and eventually we both got ripped up pretty good, but it was still fun

after that we always took multiple pairs of long nosed pliers

this particular fish came within a different story but is the general size I’m talking about.
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That is a good fish tale!
1.Cannot catch that many Pike at one time.
2. Throw back that big of fish.
I totally get they are viscous creatures!

 

[shawluvsbirds]