Touché brother......honestly this place is good entertainment when you set back and read opinions of guys on here. You can read what everyone's life is like by the shit that is spewed here......regardless how some posters say how good they have it. Easy to see past the screen at times and the points some try to make. If I had more time to post, would be in the CFB forum, but just don't have time.
Thanks for the props!
Thanks for the props!
First off, I went to Houston with a great friend who is from there, he is from the hood, been stabbed, shot and was smart enough to leave 20 years ago and never go back. First place we went after meeting up with his parents is his grandma's house which is located in an old hood. They developed it and his uncles and nieces were there and the first thing we do, is go to Church's Chicken. It was good but it was funny that was the first place that popped up lol. Second we stop to get beers and it is weird to me to see like a little liquor store in the middle of a neighborhood with 40 ouncers and such on display in the middle of the thing with ice piled up. So naturally we get a case and I get a 40 with a brown paper bag to boot.
Now as for the bubble, I will say it is a bit of a bubble this far north, little less in the Twin Cities, but besides the cold winters there is a lot to do here, violent crime is low, I own 80 acres of pretty decent hunting land, and I can go fishing on the Big Lake or find some real nice beautiful in land lakes. If you are a sportsman this place is paradise from May til December, then it's time to bunker in an ice shack with a bunch of beers. Also, there is no traffic, I keep my doors unlocked for the most part, we can go just about anywhere and bump into a friend, and the BEER is CHEAP!!
Cool, nice they have it good. Do they live in a bubble too? Another nice thing where I live, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no poisonous insects or snakes, the snow isn't too bad, it's the fucking cold that get to ya. We had 60 straight days of temps reaching below zero. Between boots, carhart overalls and jacket, plus hat and choppers and I am easily wearing over $300 just to keep warm outside
Hell no MS is not a bubble. Only referred to your home as one since that is the only place that doesn't have fast food joints. If your area doesn't have black folk, you probably don't see many fried chicken joints.
You can have that cold ass weather as well. Hate being cold worse than anything......unless I am sitting in a duck blind.
How is ice fishing tho? Is there a lot of action? Seems like it would be slow being so confined.
You can have that cold ass weather as well. Hate being cold worse than anything......unless I am sitting in a duck blind.
How is ice fishing tho? Is there a lot of action? Seems like it would be slow being so confined.
Yes, this area is predominantly white, but for fast food we finally got a Chipotle here, closest was 2.5 hours away. We have a lot of bars here, I mean a lot and thy all serve food so that is good.
Ice fishing is a lot of work unless you have a permanent ice shack but even then you have to move it to where the fish are or change lakes. Now I like to tip up fish for Northerns cause I pickle them and they are plentiful, easy to catch through the ice and you don't have to work hard to get them. Drill a hole near weeds, set your line about 2 - 3 feet from the hole with a shiner on a treble hook with weight. Wait for the flag to go up and watch it spin thn set the hook and pull. Each person gets 3 lines so some days you are running all day.
Now for pan fish this is where the work comes in and I only fish a couple lakes where I know the fish are going to be. Doesn't mean they will bite because the bastards are picky at times. I use a vexilar to graph the fish and I guess you have to know the lake patterns. One lake I go to they start biting about 30 minutes before dark and shut off after an hour, but you can hammer them, if they aren't biting or once they shut off, you are done. No point staying out there. Now for other lakes you are drilling holes constantly trying to find them, we use the graph and if no fish are graph you go to next hole and so on until you graph fish. You can graph fish but many times they won't bite, they swim up to bait and swim away. Amazingly that's when you go to smaller bait. Grubs are good and you want small crappie minnows. Can be frustrating but thats when beer kicks in. The ice shacks are warm and if you know the pattern you just put a permanent out there with a gas or wood stove and go out there at 4 and get set up.
Weather plays a major part of ice fishing, if you can get out there before a barometric pressure change or get out there before a new weather pattern comes in. If its 20 above for 5 days straight and then the forecast says its going to 40 or 0 then you want to get out there, and always before a snow storm comes in.
Last rule, if you are fishing and the fish don't bite after a couple hours it's time to pack it up for the day and do something else like go to the bar lol. I know people who will spend the whole day out there when the fish aren't biting, not me, not worth that one fish you may catch for the day.
