I've been thinking about that. Imagine turquoise lagoon flats, and a nice flats boat off in the distance. And then imagine someone on the front platform wearing what looks like a large fluorescent pink tutu. He is waving his arms over his head, reminiscent of a dance from Swan Lake.
Sorry Buggs, not me. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: build your own boat line tamer bucket?'s- Design > AND SEND A PICTURE OF IT IN USE, TOO! <g> > > > >, > >Buggs and Dr. Demento have been working on an idea. Here's what they > >dreamed up. > > > >Mind you- this is not MY idea. > > > >Take a 4' dia. kiddie wading pool (one of those solid plastic ones) and cut > >out a hole in the center just a little bigger than your hips. Then use foam > >padding to cushion the edge. Fashion a suspension belt system from you > >waist to the inside edge of the cut-out. Now you have a circular stripping > >basket that works in all directions and moves with you wherever you go. > >Unsnap the belt holding it up and it will fall to the deck and allow you to > >land your fish. > > > >I told them it was far-fetched, but thay wanted me to tell you about it > >anyway. > > > >What's that? OK. I'll tell her. Ginger, they want rights and royalties if > >you publish and use their design. > > > >DonO > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ginger Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:54 AM > >Subject: RE: [VFB] RE: build your own boat line tamer bucket?'s > > > > > >> I have a mesh waste stripping basket. I only tried to use it > >> once on the boat. It was not deep bottomed. We sometimes > >> strip very fast and our line goes out very fast when we throw more > >> than 70 feet. So I think the bucket would work better. > >> > >> > >> At 01:41 PM 1/19/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >> >Why couldn't you use a deep striping basket, strapped to your waist?? > >The > >> >basket would move with you when quick cast in odd directions are > >required. > >> >Which happens frequently when poling the flats. It seems to me this > >would > >> >almost get in the way when changing the direction of the cast to odd > >angles. > >> >That said, I don't fish the salt that much. Just curious. > >> > > >> >Bill Higdon > >> > > >> >-----Original Message----- > >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel Ziskowski > >> >Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:16 PM > >> >To: [email protected] > >> >Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: build your own boat line tamer bucket?'s > >> > > >> > > >> >Here is a site that decries building and weighing one out of a leaf > >> >collator. > >> >http://www.midcurrent.com/articles/gear/lb_stripping_b > >> >Regards,Joel > >> >----- Original Message ----- > >> >From: "Ginger Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >To: <[email protected]> > >> >Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:28 PM > >> >Subject: [VFB] RE: build your own boat line tamer bucket?'s > >> > > >> > > >> > > Need: a device to hold fly line while fishing in wind from bow of boat > >> > > Problem: the official flyline tamer buckets > >> > > > >> > > Ginger M. Allen > >> > > Sr. Biological Scientist > >> > > Florida Master Naturalist Program Coordinator > >> > > www.MasterNaturalist.ifas.ufl.edu > >> > > www.MasterNaturalist.org > >> > > Department of Wildlife & Ecology Conservation > >> > > UF/IFAS > >> > > 2686 SR 29 N > >> > > Immokalee, FL 34142-9515 > >> > > PH (239) 658-3400 (suncom974-3400) > >> > > Fax (239) 658-3469 (suncomfax974-3469) > >> > > > >> > > > >> > >> Ginger M. Allen > >> Sr. Biological Scientist > >> Florida Master Naturalist Program Coordinator > >> www.MasterNaturalist.ifas.ufl.edu > >> www.MasterNaturalist.org > >> Department of Wildlife & Ecology Conservation > >> UF/IFAS > >> 2686 SR 29 N > >> Immokalee, FL 34142-9515 > >> PH (239) 658-3400 (suncom974-3400) > >> Fax (239) 658-3469 (suncomfax974-3469) > >> > >> > >> > > > -- > > Allan Fish > Greenwood, IN > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
