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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #40 on: November 29, 2012, 05:18:47 PM »
Everytime I lose a lure I go and buy 2 to take "revenge".
I also do that...... :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #41 on: November 29, 2012, 05:21:01 PM »
Everytime I lose a lure I go and buy 2 to take "revenge".
I also do that...... :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #42 on: November 29, 2012, 07:05:05 PM »
Ok here are some of my confessions.....
 
Sometimes at night when its hot I struggle to sleep, I then rig up one of my spinning rods complete with a lure and then hold it in my hands whilst I take a dos on the Verandah. Makes for very good dreams and I always catch a good fish like that.
 
My girlfriend calls all the stuff I buy at Kingfisher my looney tablets........  :hehe:
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #43 on: November 29, 2012, 07:08:50 PM »
I just realised why all the guys at the Kingfisher give me good smiles and a warm welcome when I come to their shop.  :hehe:
 
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #44 on: November 29, 2012, 07:33:48 PM »
Ha, you know there is a problem when the guys at the tackle shop know your first and last name and your birthdate, and that's the only place you see them.... prty


FA - sometimes I take a lures off one of the peg boards in the shrine and start stroking the packaging just to sooth the fishing tension.



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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #45 on: November 29, 2012, 09:35:31 PM »
Now what am I to say, I have it so bad that I even make my own lures in addition to buying craploads of other fishing stuff each time I leave the house..... i don't have a problem.......................    I am completely messed up!
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #46 on: November 29, 2012, 10:23:18 PM »
I think that Super Admin should create a Confessional Forum - password protected so that wives cant snoop  - otherwise we are all in that du du that was being thrown around in another thread

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #47 on: November 30, 2012, 12:05:12 AM »
 :hehe: :hehe:  a good laugh this thread.
@ John F and Peterblace I really enjoy buying kit for you guys and spending your sheckles wisely but boy does it hurt my pocket too as I always seem to leave with something I don't really need.  :unhap

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #48 on: November 30, 2012, 06:25:30 AM »
i Have a garage that the wife does not know about

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #49 on: November 30, 2012, 07:05:17 AM »
i Have a garage that the wife does not know about
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #50 on: November 30, 2012, 08:38:53 AM »
good advice there!


My strategy is to check what I have before I go to the tackle store and know exactly what I want....however this DOES NOT always work - I still buy way too much.....


In my fishing store room (my wife calls it the "tackle shop annex") there is stuff I have never used and most probably wont use.


I get rid of stuff when I go fishing where there are gillies- and assemble a bag full of goodies for them - which includes old rods and reels


Since using braid, I must admit that I no longer have extra line piling up - and since I now mainly do lure fishing, I dont buy sinkers.


Dont talk to me about flies - I have at least 500.....


However, I still manage to spend a fortune before any big expedition - and com back with tons of unused stuff


I am thinking of therapy...

I have over 500 Konas, and way more than that many flies, am scared to count my Halcos and Rapalas

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #51 on: November 30, 2012, 08:59:37 AM »
My tackle was the real reason I bought a Cruiser, purely cause well, you know the story.....
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #52 on: November 30, 2012, 10:37:30 AM »
aaah crap just ordered some more stuff!! 4 rods and some lures!!  :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #53 on: November 30, 2012, 11:15:33 AM »
i Have a garage that the wife does not know about

ahhhh a newbie.... I have several she does not know about!!! don't worry time will help....

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #54 on: November 30, 2012, 11:26:43 AM »
My tackle was the real reason I bought a Cruiser, purely cause well, you know the story.....
i Have a garage that the wife does not know about
aaah crap just ordered some more stuff!! 4 rods and some lures!!  :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

ahhhh a newbie.... I have several she does not know about!!! don't worry time will help....

Eish some serious cases of TA out there........ :rck"

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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #55 on: November 30, 2012, 12:23:53 PM »
aaah crap just ordered some more stuff!! 4 rods and some lures!!  :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

You in trouble Sir! You just got new rods a few weeks back on your way to Maputo!!!  :craz:
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #56 on: November 30, 2012, 12:51:15 PM »
When I bought my house the beginning of the year one of the things I was looking for was an out side "office" where I can go and do my work and not bother the misses! Now I've got a house with a long pool to test the different lures in and a "office" where I hide my tackle and model airplanes. Now my biggest concern is that when I die some day my wife is gonna sell everything for what I told her it was worth!
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #57 on: November 30, 2012, 01:01:34 PM »
Gents, from an entirely unbiased view point I would like to say... don't fight it! Thats like trying to stop the rain from pouring!
 
I personally dont recommend Chigger's steps but find it far more productive to find and the nearest salesman ask him to show you what's new...  :creep:
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #58 on: November 30, 2012, 01:15:03 PM »
Gents, from an entirely unbiased view point I would like to say... don't fight it! Thats like trying to stop the rain from pouring!
 
I personally dont recommend Chigger's steps but find it far more productive to find and the nearest salesman ask him to show you what's new...  :creep:
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Re: Combatting TA (tackle addiction)
« Reply #59 on: November 30, 2012, 02:29:21 PM »
Gents, from an entirely unbiased view point I would like to say... don't fight it! Thats like trying to stop the rain from pouring!
 
I personally dont recommend Chigger's steps but find it far more productive to find and the nearest salesman ask him to show you what's new...  :creep:

Did you get a bonus for that post  :hehe: :hehe:  try as we may those 10 steps never seem to work.

 

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