I guess, but we will just have to make more. Depending on the ingredients, the stories got better and the cold never bothered us sitting around the camp fire.
---- Dail Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan- If you use that Arizona fly fish clubs medicine you will soon see lots > of snakes! Dail Graham > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Allan Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:35 PM > Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY - WHISKEY FISHING > > > > > > And I can remember back in scouting days. The > > scoutmaster would always say to us assitants, > > "I'm bringing some snakebite medicine. Who's > > bringing the snake?" > > > > > >>Jimmy: > >> > >>I remember when I used to go fishing with the > >>Arizona Flycasters Club on outings. we were all > >>deathly afraid of getting bit by rattlesankes so > >>we made a gallon of "Anti-snake Bite Juice" > >>A fifth of Southern Comfort, a fifth of Vodka, a > >>fifth of rye whiskey and if anyone brought > >>scotch it would go in also. > >> > >>Must have worked just fine cause no one ever got bit by a rattler.....LOL > >> > >> > >>---- "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I thought a little levity was in order for the day, since all we hear > >>> and see is how bad things are. Yep, I wrote this, so if you take issue > >>> with any part of it or don't get even a tiny laugh, just E-mail me. . . > >>> . . . . Oh never mind. Me, I don't give a damn. > >>> > >>> Have a Good Un! > >>> > >>> JIMMY D > >>> > >>> " In my younger days, some of my buds and I played in a Twi-Light golf > >>> tournament each Wednesday evening during the summer. Entry fee was > >>> $10. > >>> Cheap enough. At each Tee Box was a garbage can of iced down Lone > >>> Star Beer. Seemed that the more we drank, the better we played and > >>> whether or not we won the pot, we didn't care. Most of us got our $10 > >>> back in the beer we drank. That was the most fun I ever had playing > >>> golf. I remember putting out on the 18th with onlooker's cars parked in > >>> the grass and their headlights shining on the green so we could see how > >>> to putt, those of us who could still stand up. :-P > >>> > >>> I'm sure we could work something similar with trout fishing and > >>> whiskey. > >>> ( I chose whiskey instead of beer, since that's our stereotype image - > >>> pipe smoking, fancy whiskey drinking, tweedy, hoite toite Abercrombie & > >>> Fitch appearance.) 18 garbage cans of cold whiskey would be a little > >>> 'over the top', so we could use small buckets filled with miniatures of > >>> our favorite whiskeys, placing them in the cold water at the edge of > >>> selected pools, riffles and runs. Total cost would be minimal as would > >>> the entry fee. It would be understood that we'd each down a bottle of > >>> our preference at each placement of the whiskey. It'd be great fun and > >>> we wouldn't give a damn who won or if we caught any trout. This being a > >>> whiskey drinking contest, fish caught wouldn't count anyway. ;-) > >>> > >>> Those still standing at the end would be declared the winner(s) and > >>> would receive a 'Texas Fifth' of McKendric Mesquite Mellowed whiskey - > >>> McKendric Longhorn Creek or McKendric Western. Each of us would > >>> probably need a 'designated caster' after downing dozen or so bottles. > >>> His job would also entail keeping us from drowning and seeing us home > >>> safely. > >>> > >>> Why would Abercrombie & Fitch types stoop so low as to enter an event > >>> like this? Why indeed? Most folk of this type boast of how much > >>> whiskey they can drink and still be standing. I think it's called > >>> PRIDE. In this case, PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL ! :-P My money would be on > >>> the bourbon drinkers, since we're not quite as tweedy, and therefore > >>> tougher than the A&F bunch. > >>> > >>> **************** ><((((((((º> ************** > >>> JIMMY D. MOORE > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag, > >>> Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club, > >>> Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited, > >>> Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA. > >>> ***************** <º))))))))>< ************* > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Allan Fish > > Greenwood, IN > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG. > > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1813 - Release Date: > > 11/26/2008 8:53 AM > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
