What is a successful hunt?

[mark knapp]

The fishing expedition continues...

I thought I pretty well covered that when I said:



You are impossible to have a conversation with. I don't have conversations with people who are impossible to have conversations with. I'm more than happy to have conversations with people I disagree with, but if a person is nonsensical and refuses to actually try and have a conversation...no thanks. Best of luck on your other upcoming fishing expeditions.

I know you are but what am I? . What what your post means is, you got nothin'

 

[mark knapp]

I don't see how this thread could be a fishing expedition or or a train wreck. We have five pages, 101 posts and we've heard from some new people, had good conversations with lots of other people. We've heard from a bunch of new people instead of the same old three or four all the time. We've even had a great conversation with Brian M.

I think you guys are jealous. We've only heard from two or three of the regular detractors. (you guys know who you are).

 

[mark knapp]

This is my buddy Dave with the biggest red ear sunfish we caught in a week last summer. In all, we fished a week, caught small mouth, large mouth, stripers and sunfish, lots of big sunfish. This one is 15 inches long. The record is 6.3 pounds. A Havasu grand slam if you catch them all in one day. I tried to upload more pictures but it said the files were too big. I will have a the pictures on my blog some day. And on my you tube channel.

 

[mark knapp]

17" sunfish now you're just yankin us for no reason. I want to see a sunfish that big. If you get some that size i want to see pictures! Had a few lakes in mn where we would pull out 10 to 12 inchers.

I'm from Minnesota too, caught some big sunnies but not like these.

 

[mark knapp]

 

[NorcalBob]

I don't see how this thread could be a fishing expedition or or a train wreck. We have five pages, 101 posts and we've heard from some new people, had good conversations with lots of other people. We've heard from a bunch of new people instead of the same old three or four all the time. We've even had a great conversation with Brian M.

I think you guys are jealous. We've only heard from two or three of the regular detractors. (you guys know who you are).

A fishing expedition is an informal, pejorative term for a non-specific search for information, especially incriminating information.

goad verb [T] (PROVOKE)​

to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them:

TRAIN WRECK: a chaotic or disastrous situation that holds a peculiar fascination for observers.

I'd say your hunt was successful.

 

[SmokeRoss]

Google, Lake Havasu Trophy Sunfish

A friend of mine just sent some pics of their boat deck covered with them.

 

[mark knapp]

A fishing expedition is an informal, pejorative term for a non-specific search for information, especially incriminating information.

goad verb [T] (PROVOKE)​

to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them:

TRAIN WRECK: a chaotic or disastrous situation that holds a peculiar fascination for observers.

I'd say your hunt was successful.

I wrote, what I wrote to have some intelligent, insightful conversation and I did, I'd say I was successful too.

You and patsfan are entitled to your opinions but that's really all they are, your opinions.

You see, I'm the only one who would know for sure why I did something.

 

[magpie]

Let’s get marks wife on here! 🫠👏🤙🙄🤨😐😳😆😘😜😎🥺😳🤔🤫😦😯

 

[mark knapp]

Let’s get marks wife on here! 🫠👏🤙🙄🤨😐😳😆😘😜😎🥺😳🤔🤫😦😯

She's a real sweetheart but she's way too busy to spend time on here. Incidentally, she saved my life when I died.

 

[Becky99588]

Interesting thread. I see where you're going with this Mark, but you know as well as any that success means different things to different people. And as already pointed out, where you are in the traditional "stages of a hunter" plays a role. You are absolutely spot on with your comments about being respectful in the field, that's a truth for all hunters everywhere and it's been a lesson I have strongly instilled in my own children. I know hunters from all walks of life. The Athabascan elder that lives in a plywood house down the road that has very little, but values dried moose meat, beaver and salmon strips more than we know. The neighbor that just moved here from the east coast who has hunted and trapped his entire life, just excited to finally get a true taste of the Alaskan outdoors. The neighbor that has generations of history in rural Alaska that truly believes he's a subsistence hunter, but spends more on electronics than hunting gear and rarely walks 10' from his car during his annual road hunting expedition. The friend that lives in Anchorage that grew up hunting, fishing and trapping in the Alaskan outdoors, but now who lives in an urban setting near a Carrs and Costco, they still hunt, fish and trap when they can, but isn't going to go hungry if the hunt doesn't go well. To my own family here in rural Alaska, who like you has had many truly successful hunts/fishing/trapping trips over the years, including many within 5 minutes of home, allowing us to eat 99% wild game/fish, our family truly enjoys the outdoors for so many reasons but we almost always bring something home to eat. We all come from different places and find ourselves in different situations along the way. In the end, we all must embrace each others' reasons for hunting if we are to keep our hunting and outdoor heritage alive.

 

[SmokeRoss]

I have moose backstrap thawing in the fridge for tomorrow. Tha could be considered success.

 

[mark knapp]

Interesting thread. I see where you're going with this Mark, but you know as well as any that success means different things to different people. And as already pointed out, where you are in the traditional "stages of a hunter" plays a role. You are absolutely spot on with your comments about being respectful in the field, that's a truth for all hunters everywhere and it's been a lesson I have strongly instilled in my own children. I know hunters from all walks of life. The Athabascan elder that lives in a plywood house down the road that has very little, but values dried moose meat, beaver and salmon strips more than we know. The neighbor that just moved here from the east coast who has hunted and trapped his entire life, just excited to finally get a true taste of the Alaskan outdoors. The neighbor that has generations of history in rural Alaska that truly believes he's a subsistence hunter, but spends more on electronics than hunting gear and rarely walks 10' from his car during his annual road hunting expedition. The friend that lives in Anchorage that grew up hunting, fishing and trapping in the Alaskan outdoors, but now who lives in an urban setting near a Carrs and Costco, they still hunt, fish and trap when they can, but isn't going to go hungry if the hunt doesn't go well. To my own family here in rural Alaska, who like you has had many truly successful hunts/fishing/trapping trips over the years, including many within 5 minutes of home, allowing us to eat 99% wild game/fish, our family truly enjoys the outdoors for so many reasons but we almost always bring something home to eat. We all come from different places and find ourselves in different situations along the way. In the end, we all must embrace each others' reasons for hunting if we are to keep our hunting and outdoor heritage alive.

Hi Becky, I agree with you 100 percent. Thanks for replying. I never meant to say that my current opinion is to the exclusion of everyone else'. For some reason people take it that way. It's nice hearing from you. Mark