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DaCoder
03-06-2002, 11:21 AM
Due to the wonderful gift from Mother Nature over the weekend, I decided to start spring cleaning in the basement. Going thru the shelves of fishing paraphernalia and Christmas decorations, I found myself knee-deep in boxes. Fortunately, my wife came down and offered her assistance. (Good thing, or we would have had a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree this year.) Behind the shelves were 6 or 7 7' cardboard tubes, once used to ensure the safe delivery of some ordered fishing rods.

I grabbed the tubes and laid them on the floor for my 10 month old daughter to amuse herself with. She was happily banging them around, and when it got annoying, I decided to take them to the garage and cut them up for garbage pick-up. Taking the plastic end caps off before cutting, I noticed one of the tubes had plastic shoved in it. Pulling out the plastic, I found it contained a 7' BPS Walleye Series retractable trolling rod! It still had the tags on it, and the order invoice was in the tube. It had a date on it from 1997! Does this mean I have too much fishing paraphernalia?

Just wondering if anyone else has some "forgotten and found" stories.

Arrowhead
03-06-2002, 11:55 AM
YES, I will e-mail my address sent all that extra stuff to me. You never have enought fishing stuff!

stevefellegy
03-06-2002, 12:36 PM
Now anyone that knows anythibng about me will find THIS hard to believe.
I was going through some tax records a while back, and found what looked like a check, written to me, from the Mercury Marine National tournament held at Lake Winnebago. I haven't fished it since '96. Yes, you guessed it. The nineth place check was still good and real money. I hadn't eaten for a week....now that came in handy! I've been lookin' everywhere since, and not so surprisingly, there ain't no more checks layin' around uncashed.lol