02-04-10, 12:42 PM | #1 |
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Centuries or Eons worth of fishing here? Let's Find Out!
I am willing to bet that there is probably well over 1000 years of combined experience and knowledge among all of us here.
I am curious to see (what else is there to do during the winter blues) what that number looks like. I am relatively new to fishing and just about ending my 5th season, so that's just 5 years for me. Take the number of years you've been fishing (bass and other species) and add it to mine and leave the result at the bottom of your post and the next person will add their years to it. Combined years of experience here at Bass Resource 1) IB - 5 years 2) (next person)
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1) IB - 5 years
2) nofear - 30 years
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02-04-10, 12:48 PM | #3 |
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WTL, 12 years (serious fishing, don't want to include cricket dunking as a child)
35+12= 47 |
02-04-10, 01:06 PM | #4 |
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16 years of fishing (didn't do much in college).
47+16= 63 YEARS!!!!! |
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Cassidy, 30 years
We are sitting on 93 now
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02-04-10, 01:31 PM | #6 |
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Awesome, guys! Keep them coming!
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93 + 24 = 117
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Fun post, IB. I like it...
If we're not including bobber + cricket fishing, just "serious" fishing, I've got maybe 4 years of "experience." 117 + 4 = 121
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Cool idea for sure...
121 + 3 = 124
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Cool thread!
124 + 10 = 134 |
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I'm assuming any type of fishing, not just bass.
134 +7 = 141
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02-04-10, 02:46 PM | #12 |
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Can't believe it...21 YEARS!
141+21=162!
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02-04-10, 03:02 PM | #13 |
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roughly 20 years here
162+20 = 182 |
02-04-10, 03:08 PM | #14 |
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about 18 years of serious fishing (only 1 year of bass)
182+18=200 |
02-04-10, 03:51 PM | #15 |
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3 and a half for me
203.5 i'll throw in a decimal just to make things complicated. |
02-04-10, 04:12 PM | #16 |
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Great idea IB!
When you say experience,Im trying to figure out if that 20 years of chunking spinnerbaits and tiny jigs with dad really count?...Or should I just count the solid 1 year that Ive really been paying attention to all the varibles?..hahaha
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Three years serious trout fishing with Dad as a kid, 4 years of Bassin' with my kids
203.5 + 7 = 210.5
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Awesome idea!
25 for me 210.5+25=235.5 |
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235.5+40=275.5. I guess I am the old man here. Mind you that is since I was sixteen. Fished a lot with dad before that.
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Keep em coming guys! The answer is yes to all inquiries!
As for the decimal, it might too confusing for some us to add, so I'll round up to avoid calculation headaches. Who knows... It might cause some to not add their years of experience. We're at 276
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Well lets add my 20 and bump it up to 296
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Quickly! We need someone with just 4 years of fishing experience to get to this:
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02-04-10, 07:47 PM | #24 |
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Since I still have my ipod calculator out, lets have some fun with math!
OK, I count so far 19 guys reporting, with 296 years experience....that averages out to 15.57 years per man. If we were to take that small sample and apply it to every member registered here (5,967), we would as a site have 92,959 years experience in bass fishing.... Of course that sounds good, but many of those members have vanished into space, but it shows you just a glimpse of the info that is available online. So much that the job isn't acquiring more info, but rather processing through the reams of info that you already got. |
02-04-10, 08:45 PM | #25 |
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29 years ( I am counting all) = 325 years total.
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