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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: mart on April 06, 2013, 06:13:00 AM
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Have you ever seen a grabber like this,, ??? All it says is "Fish Grabber" and Made in USA !! Found these at small garage sale !! This guy was a Doctor and a friend of ours before he died a couple of years ago !! Had reels that would make your head swim !! He loved to fish for stripers !! Also picked up these filet knives !!
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I saw similar styled grabbers in the fishing department at Walmart. Most of my needs for those could be handled with an old pickle tong. ;D
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I have seen the smaller size that work the same but this one will handle a 5 lb or more channel cat easily !! And that's what I need it for !! Just haven't seen this design !!
This guy had a lot of the big Penn reels, most all are older ones !! Ambassador, Pfleuger reels, and others !!
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I have seen similar used for them stinging cats!!!
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Whats a stinging cat ?? Never heard of that one !! Some call Channel cats "singing cats" because of the sounds they make when trying to get them off the hook !!
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I have a filet knife identical to the wood handled one. It's in on a kitchen cabinet shelf right now cause the wife uses it whenever she needs a really sharp knife for whatever.
And No, I have never seen a "fish grabber" like that one.
But here below is a picture of the "grabber" my dad used to grab hold of those big Muskies. The Elk and Little Kanawha Rivers in central WV are noted for BIG Muskies.
Not so much in the LK anymore because the river bed has filled in resulting in it being warmer ..... and quite shallow in many places ..... because of the flood control dam they built 3+- miles up-river from Burnsville.
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This one is aluminum and the mouth opens to 6" !! Its 9" total length That black handled knife and the Wood handled Finnish knife I got for $5. ea.,, Both are razor sharp !! The black handled one is currently selling for $40. on ebay,, Or at least there were two that were yesterday !! It has a grabber built into the case which is just hard plastic !! You just unsnap it to use the grabber,, also has a line cutter and built in whet rock !! Right handy little instrument !! Its called The Fishermans Solution by Alcas !!
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The black handled one is currently selling for $40. on ebay,,
HA, one can buy a new wood handled one for $14
http://www.shopping.com/Normark-Rapala-Fish-n-Fillet-Knives-7-5-Inch/info
But I guess if one was in the "fish fileting" business then the "status symbol" would warrant one of those $100+- ones. ;D ;D
And unless that "whet rock" is, or equivalent to, a diamond embedded one ..... I wouldn't want it or the knife.
Ya really need a "steel" for keeping a filet knife sharp.
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The black handled one was selling for $40. not the Rapala!! Yes those little Rapala`s are cheap !! Mine is the 9 inch blade !! Don`t worry,, I have a steel !! But sometimes I don't carry my kitchen with me !! Its a very fine rock and should do quite nicely !! I bought them to use not to look at !!
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HA HA HA meant singing cats!!!! got finger happy and added a t in that!
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Ha !! Had your finger geared up too high ??
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I grab striped bass and largemouth with my thumb in their mouth. With bluefish I used pliers on the hook and shake them off because they bite fingers to the bone and are aggressive even out of water. I usually release them. The others get picked up in a net or gaffed. I never used a grabber or have I ever seen one like that.
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ahhh fellow striper hunter....
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I do too on bass but I learned better than to try that on these catfish !! You will have no skin left on your thumb !! Going to try the grabber on the 5+ lb fish in our pool !!
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C'mon Mart. Don't you duck and grab them like in that TV show. They have no trouble pulling those 20 pounders out of the holes by the mouth. They just wiggle their fingers and wait to get bit.
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Yeah !! And God made a few people smarter than that and I am one of them !! I had one of those big dudes clamp down on my hand once !! Doesn`t take much for me to learn better !!
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So snapper toe fishing or bobbing for cottonmouths or is not for you either?
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Nope !@!!
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Yeah !! And God made a few people smarter than that and I am one of them !! I had one of those big dudes clamp down on my hand once !! Doesn`t take much for me to learn better !!
Never watched the show, but was it one of these "Big Dudes"? ;D
(http://img.poptower.com/pic-57653/hillbilly-handfishin.jpg?d=600)
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LOL !! Not quite !! Mine had fins !!
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Going to try the grabber on the 5+ lb fish in our pool !!
Ya could try a couple fingers in its gills .... and lift it right out of the water.
With pike, pickerel, walleye ..... and turtles .... you wanna keep your fingers out of their mouth. ;D ;D ;D
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Last 4 are not on my fishing list !!!
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I,ve guddled for wee Broon Troots....but...big fish wi teeth...Na, I,ll leave that for you macho Texans....and other creeds... ;D
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Thats Scottish for Brown Trout in case anyone was wondering. They invented Trout fishing and sent those Broons over here where they still live today. We call it tickling trout
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yes..and we got yer wonderful Rainbows...but for me it has to be the Sea Trout...which is really a Broon Troot...that went to sea....The secret on how to catch them..is to never allow them to clear the water...unless you,re using line that could pull a train....not very sporting...but...ve ry effective... ;D
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Here ya` go Frogpatch !!
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Its fish their after not, bloody whales...Last time i saw a hook that size ..it was hanging from a mobile crane... ;D
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Wullie,, you know everything is bigger in Texas !! Those are for our normal size fish !! :D
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Wullie,, you know everything is bigger in Texas !! Those are for our normal size fish !! :D
Having worked with Texans.....you don,t have to tell me how big everything in Texas is...I, could curl yer tootsies with the stories they told me... ;D ;D ;D
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to get back on track....here,s a little fishmaid.......LOL!!...it just came to me this morning..that this pic..is the opposite of this one.....a .mermaid...
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Wullie !! We have a G rating !! Remember !!!
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Wullie !! We have a G rating !! Remember !!!
::)This is an ornamental figure that is in the public domain...its not pornographic..its artistic..what is the problem...we are living in the 21st century...not the middle ages,or Victorian times, where it was aghast for a woman to show her ankle...I,m sure the younger generation can teach us more now,than we would have been able to when we were their age...
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Okie Dokie !! Perhaps a little airbrushing is needed !! I don`t think there is a spot on my cheaters !!
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The big ones are shark or tuna hooks. The others are for big blues or smaller tuna. In Texas the big ones are probably still used for sharks and billfish and the smaller ones for big grouper, amber jack or king mackerel. They would be bottom fished for the grouper or threaded with a ballyhoo and teaser and trolled for others. I am not an expert in Gulf fishing. Just going by what I saw living in western Florida.
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Skate fishing is common on the west coast of Scotland,...average weight 150/200lb
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2125525/Say-cheese-Giant-skate-fish-smiles-camera-pulling-fisherman-miles-sea.html
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I am a long, long way from the coast !!!
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Maybe you have Mudsharks... ;D
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Now now, methinks Mart is happily married.
Didn't Frank Zappa have something to say about that?
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Now now, methings Mart is happily married.
Didn't Frank Zappa have something to say about that?
He sure did.... ;D
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OK I will be the dummy !! Whats a mudshark ?? Never heard that term !!
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I thought you would have known that Mart...its another name for a Catfish....but it also something entirely different....see link... ;D
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mud%20shark
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I knew I shouldn`t have asked that question !!!! :D
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;D ;D ;D I think some of us were just waiting...like sort of perching behind a wall...waiting ever so impatiently....mutt ering....Will she!!...or Won,t she!!......and you did,nt disappoint us Mart... ;D
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LOL !! I am always the curious one,,and like the cat,,it sometimes gets me in trouble !! Especially here !!!
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I,m still chuckling....LOL!....
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As long as humor (& truth) is still allowed here .... in the deep South catfish are also known as (among fisher-folk) 'turd-hustlers' !
;D :D :P
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That would be the Flathead or Mudcats.
Carp and Suckers have the same nickname here in WV.
I don't like the taste of a Mudcat and Suckers are good tasting but have far too many bones throughout their flesh to be picking out before ya can eat it. My neighbor said he solved that too-many-bones problem by putting them thru the sausage grinder and making "fish patties" for frying.
The Channel catfish is the super good tasting one ..... and it prefers live bait. They are the ones that are "farm raised" and ya buy at the Supermarkets.
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what was that about catfish........Meow ........gulp!!.
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Never caught one like that !! ;D