And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
She has the beginning of several great meals there . . . . for plants, rats, and wandering bears. Although it might of been fun reeling in that fish in with some nice 4 lb test line.
That's why it would be fun. You could play with it a long time. I doubt that half dead fish would take the bait hard enough to break the line if you were careful. If it did, no loss, try again.
Too bad the meat is not so good when they are spawning…as this young lady will soon find out…usually beat up and bruised.
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DeleteShe has the beginning of several great meals there . . . . for plants, rats, and wandering bears.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it might of been fun reeling in that fish in with some nice 4 lb test line.
good luck with the 4# test on that fish....it would snap the line taking the fly/bait...
ReplyDeleteThat's why it would be fun. You could play with it a long time. I doubt that half dead fish would take the bait hard enough to break the line if you were careful. If it did, no loss, try again.
DeleteI caught a spawned out Chinook buck, on my fly rod once. It was like reeling in a wet sweatshirt.
ReplyDeletethought I hung up on a tree branch I knew was in the vicinity.
DeleteGot her a nibble.
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