Outdoors thread

[Speaker to Animals]

This is about to go downhill.

[TheReal_ND]

Well if you want to make everything about casting sand fleas on well known setups at the beach then I guess you're the guy to talk to

[TheReal_ND]

Oh well the thing with the six pound leader on 12 pound line was I used the reel at the beach and found some cheap light weight line on sale so I just used the light weight line as a leader instead of respooling. The park is very fished and it's hot so light and deep.

[SuburbanFarmer]

[Montegriffo]

Now that's just internet bullying Grumps. I'm dissappointed in you.

[Okeefenokee]

Most of that stuff is cheap, and as long as you are surf fishing, the very best bait available is free for the taking (sand fleas). A lot of that looks like fresh water gear to me too. I was never big on fresh water fishing, and I only recognize that type of thing from lake fisherman (especially the rubber worms for bass).

Salt water fishing is potentially way, way more affordable.

You ever fished for small mouth in shoals?

Ten dollar zebco and rock worms. Always been a river rat.

[Okeefenokee]

I don't know if there are any books like this, but it seems to me something very valuable would cover how to bootstrap your fishing in a particular place economically so that you can eventually recover the costs by the end of the year in meat.

Somewhere along the way our culture took a nosedive. All these things became "sports", and people then concluded they should spend a fuck ton of cash on them. But you really shouldn't be spending more than you get out of it. It makes no sense unless you are rich and you get your rocks off sitting in a fifty thousand dollar bass boat like Jerry Reed or something.

I mean like a step-by-step guide on how to maximize your time and resources to supplement your food expenses.

Make one for hunting too. I am not even kidding. This is the type of shit people really need. Our nation is LONG past the expensive hobby sport days. People need to start thinking about gathering food to save money.

All you need is a single rod and reel and a couple lures. If you want bigger fish buy bait.

You can hunt anything you want if you have an 870 or something similar and a couple barrels with interchangeable chokes. One long one for upland and waterfowl; use a full or modified choke for the waterfowl and a more open choke for upland game, and then a short barrel with iron sights for turkey and deer. Use a rifled slug choke for the deer, and a extra full for turkeys. You can shoot rabbits or squirrels with anything

I do get what you're saying about the sportification of activities, but you can argue that's capitalism at its best

Dad fed us hunting deer with a twelve gauge using buck shot. Just gotta track it to where it dies.

[TheReal_ND]

A fucking fish appears. I'm going to eat this motherfucker tonight

[SuburbanFarmer]

Good job.

[TheReal_ND]

It was about ten or twenty pounds of meat. Ate it all