Better ice fishing in Cleveland than Miami. ANY wimp can live where it is WARM, it takes GUTS, STAMINA and BRAINS to survive in the cold!!Any fool can lay around on the beach in the heat, baking and getting skin cancer!! (I know, this ain't funny either)
And this coming from a Michiganite...another wimp state! except for the upper half..Better ice fishing in Cleveland than Miami. ANY wimp can live where it is WARM, it takes GUTS, STAMINA and BRAINS to survive in the cold!!
Better ice fishing surely ....... but not necessarily better fishing ...
Not necessarily
..... in some ways, warmer climates can be more difficult to live in, owing to the heat (desert environments, drought conditions) and often, the higher prevalence of various forms of disease and pestilence .....Yeah, well ...... it is also true that any fool can come into the Soapbox and shoot their mouth off ....
Better ice fishing surely ....... but not necessarily better fishing ...
Not necessarily
Spend a summer out in the bush in Sub-Saharan Africa - some place like say, oh ..... Angola, Sudan, Ethiopia, Chad, or Somalia ....
While you're there - and after you've finished beating your chest and telling everyone how tough it is live where it's a bit chilly and how it requires being a "real man" to survive - please explain to any poor Dinka, Nuer, or Somali subsistence farmer/herdsman you encounter, how they have it so easy .... and that any wimp could live there ...
While you are at it, maybe you could also explain to them how that 3 foot long Guinea Worm that is erupting out of their 10 year-old daughter's leg, or the River Blindness that caused their wife to lose her sight at age 35, or the Sleeping Sickness that his 5 year-old son got from the tsetse fly that bit him, and which will eventually kill him, are just mere figments of his imagination ....
Yeah, well ...... it is also true that any fool can come into the Soapbox and shoot their mouth off ....
Congrats on being today's candidate .....
"ANY wimp can live where it is WARM, it takes GUTS, STAMINA and BRAINS to survive in the cold!!"
Even taking into account that living conditions are equally well in Michigan (cold) and Miami (hot), without having the extreme problems that can be found in the extreme environments of above the Arctic Circle or out in the bush in Sub-Saharan Africa, it's still tougher to living in south Florida than Michigan.
Michigan has squirrels and rabbits everywhere. Don't have to look hard to find them. They have those in Florida, too, just everywhere, only down there they don't call them rabbits and squirrels, they call them alligators and Burmese pythons. And you don't have to look hard to find them, either.
And while the fishing off Cleveland may be great, you still aren't very likely to have an eagle ray jump up out of the water and into your boat and stab you in the heart like you are off Miami.
When you go into the water off Cleveland, you're just another thing in the water. When you go into the water off Miami, you're lunch.
It's tough down there, I'm tellin' ya.
OMG we have it so hard here in southeast Michigan it is like southern California some winters. I don't remember it being so hard in my adult life except in I think 1978 when we got dumped on with record snow.
I don't remember the winter of my childhood happening in the last 20 years, where we could count on a white Christmas and the slogan on the plats actually said "winter wonderland".
Ice fishing? should be outlawed with all the idiots who go out there after a thaw and drown, it seems reasonable to me for the children's sake.
OH BOY there you go another reason we need to bring back DDT, tsetse flies.
True to a point, not everyone thinks like you. I remember some idiots up in Algonac a while ago who claimed the same thing, they grew up on the ice, yada yada yada but seemed to forget that after a weeks worth of 60 degree weather and a good wet and warm rain there may be some danger to going out there. A big deal was made about those few who were floating with the ice that broke off into the lake, I would have left them there but alas I could not make that decision.
Then there were the idiots who drive their truck out on the lake with their shanty, got the shanty setup, move the truck to a "safe" location about 300 feet into the lake then started to bore the hole and forgot about the truck ... and they thought someone stolen the POS. It went through the ice and they didn't even figure it out.
I understand that point but the thing is when they do go and get their a**es in trouble, it takes a lot of people to get out there to rescue them, I think the last time I heard the cost it was about $200k. The od 'victims' take I think less than $5k and that may be with a burial.
OH yeah that's right, you need the flies for bait. Can't you just bait the fish with corn?
I'm quite into fun and games (as evidenced by my original post in this thread) .... but my idea of fun might be considerably different than yours ....
Please keep in mind that you are speaking to someone who was both a resident of Florida for a number of years ..... and a commercial fisherman - trawling for groundfish in the Pacific Ocean/Gulf of Alaska/Bering Sea ... and the longline swordfish/tuna fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean/Grand Banks ......
Most of the waters I've fished in were usually somewhat hard, not soft ....
Quite often - but like yourself, I'm quite capable of being serious about things as well .... I also tend to laugh when things are funny (IMO) .... but not so much when they aren't ....
That's pretty funny - coming from a guy who probably thinks a "cod end" is what ya have ...... after ya trim the tail off a codfish ....
I don't take too much of what you have to say too seriously at all ....
Yeah, well ..... you just remember this:
Well, ya never know layout ..... invite me up some time and find out .... ball is in your court ....
Given those criteria (UAW/Clinton/Obama) that's for sure - yup, I wouldn't "fit in" .....
One can only imagine .....
