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Post by billmeyerhoff on Jan 29, 2008 5:06:25 GMT -6
Man I just love reading Lew and Charlie's adventures. My subscription ran out last month and that's the only thing I really miss.
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Post by redsnow on Jan 29, 2008 7:11:50 GMT -6
Someone on page 2 asked about what kind of stories "we're" interested in. I'll start a new thread, this one is loooooong.
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Post by PAskinner on Jan 29, 2008 9:16:22 GMT -6
I tell you who does a bang up job on EVERY piece he writes is....... Bob Gilsvick. I hang on every word that man writes. I think it's because he TEACHES with his STORIES. Is he doing O.K. I have not read a piece from him in a while. He still kicking??? Don I always enjoyed Gilvicks articles. It does get pretty bland if it's all teaching and no stories. I think a lot of it is just experiance, once you get so much you form your own opinions and someone else saying "Do it my way" just irritates you. Doesn't mean the author doesn't know how to catch fur.
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Post by Wright Brothers on Jan 29, 2008 9:56:33 GMT -6
Interesting thread, got me to thinking. Staff is reading this so I have to ask. If a regular trapper would sit down and crank out a yarn and get excepted, how much dose it pay?
Perhaps that is the path to fresh meat. I asked this same thing on another story forum and felt I was laughed at in an unlayman like way, if that is the SOP all the way to the top, I guess it will remain the same.
I'm sure many here have it, from 50 ways to leave your dirt hole, to the partner that imposed himself, to the scariest camp out, the truck that wouldn't quit, on and on.
Heck I get a kick out of reading the short banter on here.
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Post by JWarren on Jan 29, 2008 10:04:06 GMT -6
I miss Bob Gilsvik too, probably because he wasn't a self proclaimed "hard charging long liner", some of these guys heads are bigger than their alleged catches
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Post by garman on Jan 29, 2008 11:18:43 GMT -6
I loved Bob Gilsviks writing style, great stories!
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Post by Traveler on Jan 29, 2008 13:10:12 GMT -6
I enjoy a story also.Like Wright Brothers said,I'm sure there's lots of stories on how somebody coped with freeze thaw,high water,constant rain.How somebody altered a dirt hole or flat set to pick up a spooky coyote etc.
I'd like to see more on coyote despersal.Fox shifts etc.I'm sure we haven't even scratched the surface on that subject.Even if somebody has a theory and can't prove anything.......still it's food for thought.Just for example in my area.....seems like every 3rd to 5th year I'll see a real shift in 'cats.In other words,I'll take a 'cat here and there,then BOOM..........5-8 'cats in two days.Where did they come from ? Why ?
I can come up with theroies from now till the cows come home,but there just my theroies.Maybe somebody else would provoke a thought I hadn't dreamed of yet.
Same with coons.I'd like to see some articles on coon travel patterns.'Ole boars,'ole sows.........young of the year(kid coons I call 'em) how far do they travel ? When do they get on their horse and really ride,winding up 4-6 miles from where they started.
Anything to stir the thought process.An idle mind will get boared.
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Post by musher on Jan 29, 2008 16:32:30 GMT -6
An article with a few pics will get you a couple of hundred bucks. Take away the taxes, expenses, cost of paper, internet connection, computer wear and tear, and nail polish to toughen your nails it's pennies left. (Just funnin' ya, Bob!) This site is hard core. I think that most readers of FFG would consider us anal with regards to some of the things discussed here. Bob Gilsvick's stuff is, in my opinion, the best. He wasn't preachy and there is no right way. He just tells you what he did and what worked for him in an entertaining fashion. He also tells you what didn't! Remember the one where he took aerobics to be in shape for trapping season? It took guts to admit that! ;D And it makes sense, too. There's no doubt that he's a real one. He's also honest about slowing down with age. He's in it for the money and the good time. His book in which he traps with his son is a good read. I wonder if the young Gilsvik still traps?
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Post by bankrunner on Jan 29, 2008 16:53:02 GMT -6
Man I just love reading Lew and Charlie's adventures. I miss the old days of Lew/Charlie, stories in the 80's when they ran their traplines. Couldn't wait to read the next issue. After they got away from those stories I never read it anymore.
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Post by garman on Jan 29, 2008 17:12:45 GMT -6
o His book in which he traps with his son is a good read. I wonder if the young Gilsvik still traps? "A modern trapline" I still have the book wondered the same thing. I also know that many of the methods in that book were a overkill, especially the cubiies for coon. But I loved and still love that book
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Post by coyotewhisperer on Jan 29, 2008 17:20:01 GMT -6
Same here
So was that your article in the Tand PC about waterway bobcats? That guy was from MO i believe.
Jeff
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Post by Traveler on Jan 29, 2008 18:07:59 GMT -6
Nope.....that wasn't me Jeff.
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