Dolphins: shotgun or rifle?
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The best way to take a dolphin is with with a deep-sea rod and reel and one of those gaff-like hooks the size of a toddler's arm. Some folks lke to bait cast, but you can also just troll off the back of the boat. There's more time for drinking beer if you're trolling; bait casting is too much like work.
Spotted owl makes pretty good bait, but not as good as pinkie panda babies.
Spotted owl makes pretty good bait, but not as good as pinkie panda babies.
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Which tour company?
One of times I was in Ireland we took a tour bus and stopped by a bay. The operator, a marine biologist by profession, said he used to take people out to see them, but then the town folk got wind of it and were pissed that the company wasn't giving them a cut. (he claimed it wasn't officially part of the tour, he just liked doing it) Sure enough, a couple of old boys stood next to the bus with shotguns. We never left the bus.
One of times I was in Ireland we took a tour bus and stopped by a bay. The operator, a marine biologist by profession, said he used to take people out to see them, but then the town folk got wind of it and were pissed that the company wasn't giving them a cut. (he claimed it wasn't officially part of the tour, he just liked doing it) Sure enough, a couple of old boys stood next to the bus with shotguns. We never left the bus.
<a href="www.dolphinwatch.ie">Dolphinwatch Carrigaholt</a> is the best one I think. No shotguns, loads of dolphins (one I 'shot' six weeks ago) :OnTheMoor wrote:Which tour company?
We have a single solitary dolphin in a little bay near us, he swims with you and plays with people out in canoes. I was talking to a woman there early this week and she said" he's gay, that's why the other dolphins chucked him out of the group' I asked her did she really believe that 'course, why else would he be on his own here swimming with you guys'.
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Yes its "fun" thread.Claus von Weiss wrote:Well, either you've got a very strange sense of humour (and this is supposed to be kind of a "fun"- thread) or you are a very sick person to my point of view.
It's easy to feel sorry for the dolphins, it's pretty hard to feel sorry for you. I try both anyway.
Claus
My dad used to catch rabbits years ago, he used to put carrots on big rocks and dowse them in pepper. When the rabbit went to eat them he would sneeze and smash his head on the rock and my dad would then go round lifting all these unconscious bunnies!
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Bagging a dolphin is easy if you use the right tools
you need:
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Lure the dolphin up to the boat with the herring. When he's close enough jam the can of red bull into the little bung hole in the back of his head. Go have a beer. A few minutes later it'll be floating bellie up behind the boat. No fuss no muss.
you need:
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Lure the dolphin up to the boat with the herring. When he's close enough jam the can of red bull into the little bung hole in the back of his head. Go have a beer. A few minutes later it'll be floating bellie up behind the boat. No fuss no muss.
There's and old Irish saying that says pretty much anything you want it to.
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Thats unusual, a German with a problem understanding humour!Claus von Weiss wrote:Well, either you've got a very strange sense of humour (and this is supposed to be kind of a "fun"- thread) or you are a very sick person to my point of view.
It's easy to feel sorry for the dolphins, it's pretty hard to feel sorry for you. I try both anyway.
Claus
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(Name's Mark btw)
(Name's Mark btw)
You did this deliberately to upset me! Shame, shame, shame!
Just don't plan on coming to the US with that kind of attitude! Joke about something like that on your Disney-Fun trip to Florida and you'll set half the children around you to wailing. One quarter of the remainder will be phoning up the police--the more astute ones will call the Fish and Game Commission directly (criminal offense and a large fine)--and you'll pray that they arrive quickly to save you from the remaining quarter, who will be beating you to a bloody pulp. Which you would well deserve.
Dolphins are our friends.
They are mammals, and we do not eat them or harm them in any way, but there is a fish sometimes called a "dolphin.". Restaurants here have learned to call it "mahi-mahi" in order to avoid Hideous Scenes. "MOM! THEY KILLED FLIPPER! AAAUUUUGGHHH!"
Just don't plan on coming to the US with that kind of attitude! Joke about something like that on your Disney-Fun trip to Florida and you'll set half the children around you to wailing. One quarter of the remainder will be phoning up the police--the more astute ones will call the Fish and Game Commission directly (criminal offense and a large fine)--and you'll pray that they arrive quickly to save you from the remaining quarter, who will be beating you to a bloody pulp. Which you would well deserve.
Dolphins are our friends.
They are mammals, and we do not eat them or harm them in any way, but there is a fish sometimes called a "dolphin.". Restaurants here have learned to call it "mahi-mahi" in order to avoid Hideous Scenes. "MOM! THEY KILLED FLIPPER! AAAUUUUGGHHH!"
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