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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 67459" data-attributes="member: 4199">I don't think i knew they existed at 13, probably did but they weren't an interest.  Back then my hobbies were nintendo, pc games, bug wars, and the local entomology club, and i was heavy into fishing.  I'd go a few blocks away to the river that ran by town (back before all the rich people from the resort town i live in now and California came in and bought up the property and banned anyone from fishing) and spend the afternoon after school catching my limit so we could eat fish for dinner.  I probably spent a good 20-30 hours a week on the river.  When the fish weren't biting the bugs were fighting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Really burns me up they banned any fishing where i grew up.  Makes my week to go a few blocks down the river to my friends parents place and then walk the tide lines to the good fishing holes.   Then these summer people that live a few weeks a year there come out yelling at me to get off their property.  I calmly tell them they own the property up to the high water mark, from there to the other other side is government land.  I've had the police called on me a few times (who's a pretty good friend of mine) only to have him explain the maritime laws to the land owner.  Can't wait to do that again this spring, my dad says there's a new owner there now <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" />  Maybe i should bring the police with me and go fishing lol.Nothing against people from Cali mind you, just those few that give all the rest a bad name, the rich ones that think their money can allow them to do anything they feel like.  We see them all the time up here in the resort.</blockquote>

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