"Rodney Long" wrote in message
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Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers wrote:



I too was selfless and went fishing today with a friend and my soon-to-be
son in law. How nice we are to be thoughtful and leave them to peace and
quiet!


Man I wish I could have convinced mine (wife, mother, daughter, daughter
in law and mother in law) of that :-)

My son, son in law, brother in law, father, and me, just got to talk about
fishing all day, and the weather was perfect, we just cried in our beer,
except they would not let us even have beer today. Those girls loved
seeing us suffer, they laughed because the weather was so good, and we
were not "all" on the water.

It's not hard. The big thing is laying the initial groundwork well in
advance of the marriage. I went fishing and hunting ALL the time before I
was married. I figured that if she tolerated it before the wedding GREAT!
If she didn't, it would be cheaper to learn that pre-nuptuals. Now, I can
pretty much go whenever I want, and it's less time than I used to go, so
she's happy. My daughter grew up knowing that daddy fished and hunted.
Actually, she told her classmates when asked what I did for a living, she
said "My Daddy goes hunting and fishing!" Janet knows that I live to fish
and hunt.

You might be too late! But as long as Janet knew I would be home in time to
take her to brunch, she was cool with it.
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Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
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