I see today Bush has chosen to help the US spend $555 BILLION before he gets out of office.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-26-voa53.cfm

Ironically...."Mr. Bush has said he instructed his budget director to review the options for dealing with what he called "wasteful spending.'" "

wtf??? wasteful spending? I wasn't aware that he knew it existed....

All this "bush this and bush that" has been freekin hashed over so many times its plain boring!!!!

I fwd'd your opinion to voanews and they will take it under consideration before posting another Bush topic.

Timber,

You really ought not click on about 89% of the threads, since you sure whine a lot about what is in that many of them.

"George W. Bush...Simply the Best!"

Fish on..

Todd

LMAO.

Amen Aunty, Amen!

And the republicans still insist they are the fiscally conservative party.

Theres my point 89% of the threads are stupid threads y'all need to get a life..Has this not been hashed over a f*ucking billion times on here for f*uck sakes.....and yes Todd I'll take my Willie boat (Simply the Best) over your toon any day!

Gotta click on em how the hell would I know what it was when the topic was "spend it while he's got it" ?
Now if the thread was in a 'politics' forum where it would fit best I wouldnt read any of it...

Quick, somebody call the WAH!-mbulance.

Chipper up little feller, life isn't all bad

"Little feller" now thats funny!

I thought you would like that

If I remember your like 6+ feet and 200+ pounds

Have a life, eh?

1051 posts, all focused on one of four topics:

1. If someone buys anything other than a Willie's, then, and I quote..."they are making the biggest mistake of their life" !!!!

2. George Bush is a good President!!!!

3. Logging is good for fish!!!!

4. Pissant whining about all other topics!!!

Please note the four exclamation points after every single sentence...they're not there on accident...!!!!

Have a good one, and if you're worried about people having a life, you ought to consider stopping the whining like a little bitch about all the topics that aren't numbers 1-3 above, and just go fishing...or go cut a tree, or something!!!

Fish on!!!

Todd!!!!

Todd stop bein a jackass and read my posts!!

show me proof to 1thru3 ... I talk about the pros and cons of all!!!!

And if you want to call me a "little bitch" you might want to rephrase that!!!! Mr Attorney at law!!!!!!

And to top it off I dont cutt trees I just dont blame everything on loggers like alot of you narrow minded folks do!!!!

Lumber!!!

A "little bitch" I did not call you...what I said was that you whine like a little bitch...not surprised I needed to explain that, though!!!

Every time you see the word "logger" your brain turns off and you start yacking like an idiot...all anyone has to do is read your posts to see that.

Marsha, nothing wrong with brand loyalty...as a matter of fact, I have a lot of it...but when someone is considering buying a boat other than a Willie's and Lumber tells him he is making "the biggest mistake of his life", then someone has taken brand loyalty far into the realm of "doesn't know what he is talking about"...

Fish on...

Todd

Go back and read my posts about the slides and logging and unfog your liberal mind long enough to try to understand it...Oh I forgot you dont have to being an attorney you just twist it anyway you think it should be!!!

The only one I see yackin like an idiot is you your so freekin closed minded you dont even spend the time to mill around in your mind whats said instead you spout off some f#ckin stupid left wing green piece comment!!!

Lumber!!

Over the course of your last dozen or so posts, and especially over this thread, you have gone from quaint and amusing to downright moronic!!!

Gud speling, to!!!

Carry on!!!

Fish on!!!

Todd!!!

OH boy I didnt dot my i's and cross my t's..What f@ckin ever!!

Back to topic....

Shrub considers any spending wasteful that isn't going to line the pockets of his friends & family.

Now back off track:

Hmmm. "Timber" doesn't cut trees...

Makes me speculate.

Hindsight is always 20-20.

Timber is a cool guy.

He's got big shoulders.

But they're a little soft on logging.

Sorry Timber; the devil made me say it!!!!

Sg
Stihl - simply the best!!!!

Oh, and in the spirit of the thread, Bush is a twit!!!!

Salmo g....thanks for your usual "seeing right to the heart" of what I was getting at...it's too bad you're mainly a fly-flinger, or we'd have to hook up on the river a lot more than we do!

Fish on...

Todd

Whack em and Stack em!!!!

Yeah.

Try to outdrink Timber.

Let me know when so I can watch.

Aunty,

A beer drinking contest never settled anything other than turning a lot of beer into p!ss. Not trying to discourage it or anything. Just saying it won't settle any haggling over what a dipsh!t Bush is.

Todd,

If you ever want to shake the dust off your Spey rod and pay some proper respect to steelhead, give me a call. I'll warm up the jet boat tomorrow just to make sure it's still running.

Sg

Aunty, the drinking contest should be dumped in favor of just sitting around and drinking...that's what it's going to turn into, anyway, so it may as well just start there.

Sg and KK...let's do it this March...I've had the damn thing for a year now, and I've only fished with it for half a day...I need to be a little better than "half ass proficient at one cast" if I expect to get it out into the river...

Fish on...

Todd

Todd,

Sounds almost like a plan.

Sg

Hey WTF I want to tag along on the Spey rod fishing trip. Someone is going to get hurt, and I want to be there to say "Dooode, all that blood is freakin me out. I'd help you, but I'm off the clock."

Waterboarding wouldn't bother a true steelheader one bit...wearing a useless baseball cap in sideways 40mph wind while it's raining cats and dogs can't be all that much better...especially if you're a fly guy and you're standing tits deep in the water so it's splashing up in your face, too!

Fish on...

Todd

I was gonna' ask ya' along Vince, . . . until I saw you flyfshing for chums on purpose. Ya' gotta' live that down first. Not to mention remove all the bad juju from your Spey rod.

KK,

I'm still new to waterboarding. Can we just shove Todd in the drink if he gets out of line? Besides, Todd may have a point that there isn't much difference between waterboarding and winter steelheading. Sheesh the crap came at me from all directions running back to Mission yesterday. I was blowing snot/river water/rain like a whale half the way home.

Sorry to hear you're feeling under the weather. I always prescribe three fingers of Irish Whiskey for that condition. Either it makes you better, or you don't care. win-win.

Sg

Hohbomb,

That was my rejoinder to Timber, former timber faller whose byline is "Willy, simply the best!!!"

Sg

KK,

Take care and don't die. We might get a steelhead season yet.

Sg

Salmo you got that right Stihl is Simply the Best!!

I hope my neighbor didn't make the biggest mistake of his entire life, bar none, when he bought a Poulon.

Fish on...

Todd

Yeah Todd, probably a mistake. Frankly I don't know how that outfit stays in business to keep making saws. Guys like your neighbor apparently.

I'm still using my Stihl 031-AV I got as a college graduation gift 30+ years ago. Huskys are good too I hear, but my Stihl might outlast me.

Sg

Either you guys are too subtle in your humor, or I am...

I have a Stihl, too...a Farm Boss, no less...a chainsaw that could, say, cut down an entire hillside in Lewis County, if someone had a hankering to do so.

Fish on...

Todd

A farmboss cut down a hillside The first one you cut on that hillside would be rotten by the time the last tree was cut

And Todd "gud spelin" Its Poulan!! not poulon

Maybe 30 years ago when there was still a tree in Lewis County bigger than jack firs a foot across.

By the way my Stihl's a MS 310.

My Husqvarna's a 1943 6.5mm. It doesn't cut down trees, but it'll cut down 2 legged varmints.

I should be there, too. You know, to show KK, Salmo, and Todd how to cast a spey rod! We need Doc in there as well.



Actually, I bet KK and Salmo would do a pretty coool Ninja Thing with their spey rod. Cool to watch someone who can actually cast a spey rod well.

I thought *real* flyfishermen only used bait?

Thanks Stam and Parker. I was missing you dyed in the wool fly boys for a moment there. Sheesh! Yikes! Next time we go fly fishing Stam, you gotta' leave the bait caster at home. You can show us how you Spey cast Parker. We got nothing else to do, like fishin' or somethin'. You should know by now that fly fishermen had to forego bait because it won't stay on the hook while fly casting.

Geez, I'da never guessed everyone of us owns a chain saw. Kinda' interesting.

Sg

Bring your video camera, 'cuz you'll probably win the million dollar prize after you submit the video to:

America's Funniest Videos

I gotta be a shoe-in to win that.

I'll bring the "anti-freeze."

Might want some EMT's close by too!!!

McCallums makes a nice anti-freeze.

Scotch makes a good embalming fluid...in 100 years there will be thousands of flyflingers laying in mouldering graves looking just as they did on the day they died.

Beer makes good anti-freeze, and as an added bonus, tastes good, too.

Fish on...

Todd

Aunty, that's why we call it Spey Pride....and you're right, it's not a pretty sight.

Ike

I'm with Todd on this one. But if a cheap bottle of scotch is all it takes consider it done;)

Unlike Merg my clothes aren't coming off during the Spey Pride parade.

Besides, nobody wants to see pics of some skinny white dude who hasn't seen the sun in months. More importantly I wouldn't subject anyone else in this group to that kind of scene.

And as far as builds are concerned.... I AIN'T NO BLADES! (thank god)

There's a reason why Dave's dog and boat are in his avatar, rather than him with his shirt off!

Fish on...

Todd

Todd,

You may be a hell of a lawyer, but yer a lousy chemist. Beer, with its lower alcohol content, freezes at a much higher temperature than does Scotch - embalming fluid or not.

Aunty M,

Tsk, tsk, . . . this just won't work. Shirtless Spey casters ain'ta' gonna' be no shirtless fireman's calendar. Sorry, it just ain't gonna' happen. You better just stick to the firemen.

So what are we looking at here? About the 3rd week of March maybe? I gotta' go buy a 2008 calendar/planner and start makin' some plans.

Sg

Sg,

I'm aware of the different freezing points of beer and Scotch...but if it's cold enough to freeze beer, then I won't be flyfishing, anyway.

Third week in March? I'll probably be on the OP...I'm sure we can find somewhere to waste an entire day flailing around with fly rods.

Fish on...

Todd

I'd be up for this one if it's not by invitation only.

First two weeks of April I'll be on South Andros wading the flats searching for ghosts!!

Oh, I'll be fishing...only I'll be doing it the usual way, you know, the way that catches fish.

Fish on...

Todd

The bug rod does have it's place and time.

Todd,

When you learn to use it, you won't be wasting your time.

If it looks like the timing will work, we can adjust the location according to how the runs are doing and water conditions.

Wntrrn,

There are no invitations. None of us are invited unless we invite ourselves. But if Ikiss sees any of us casting together, he'll brand us as attending Spey Pride. You have to decide if you can live with that. Of course I hate you since you're going to Andros. BTW, nice catch. I swear those hatchery rags are getting skinnier every season.

KK,

It's OK. Just gotta' understand that Todd has no class. Of course rubbing shoulders with the likes of us ain't gonna' help change that, but oh well.

Sg

You guys are gonna be so bummed when an old school drift fisherman outfishes your sorry asses with a flyrod...on day one.

OK...mebbe not, but I'm willing to give it a shot...

Fish on...

Todd

Careful Todd.

You'll become one of them.

Todd, just read Vedder's book in preperation for the fly outing. Then use those techniques like many "fly anglers" do these days and call yourself a flyfisherman.

The only indicator I use is the one that jolts me back to consciousness with a hard tug at mid swing...

I don't even like using floats for "actual fishing"...why the hell would I want to use one while "flyfishing"?

Fish on...

Todd

Todd,

Some of the best steelhead fly fishermen I've known were excellent drift fishermen, except for Jerry Wintle, who, being a Canuck, was an excellent float fisherman and single-handedly coulda' wiped out the Capilano summer steelhead run, but switched to fly fishing thinking that might save the run. Then BC Hydro built a dam and killed 'em off. The upshot is that I won't be bummed if and when you show us how it's done. Nor will I be surprised when you tie a noose around your neck trying to cast that rig.

Sg

Just for the record, I've caught plenty on one handers...just haven't used the spey rod but once for a couple of hours...

Fish on...

Todd

Very nice, KK...

Fish on...

Todd