Thread: What as a LY?

[quote author=LugNut link=topic=1047.msg10186#msg10186 date=1336226267]
I heared that many years ago, some gillnetter dude came home from slaughtering fish all night and found his ol lady wearing a bright red negligee in bed with his pier fishing neighbor.
The netter kilt his ol lady and wrapped her red negligee clad body in a old gillnet and dumped her in the Gulf the next night close to a gulf coast fishing pier.
Her lover, the pier fisherman incidentally hooked into the gillnet while fishing for kings. When he was finally able to reel in his catch, he saw her body still wearing the red negligee wrapped in the net.
He started yelling; “ Look at all those bait fish gilled in that net, it must be the red fabric they are after!”
Thus my friends is how idea for the red ribbon rig was born.
It is unclear as to exactly who created the first prototype, but some say it was the gillnetter in order to raise money for a defense attorney.
Fact or Fiction, who knows?
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I will say fiction, because there is absolutely no way someone fishing with King gear will be able to tug a bloated 120lb+ body from the bottom of the water without simply thinking he is snagged--which, if he was King fishing, he wouldn't have been fishing on the bottom anyhow.

Also, the theory that she was floating won't fly either, since the currents would have taken her body away from the pier long before.

However, in honor of pier fishing lore, I'd say claim it as truth and tell it to all the locals for the sake of legend.

That was meant to be a fun story, not a factual, technically correct how-to document.

[quote author=LugNut link=topic=1047.msg10327#msg10327 date=1336395562]
That was meant to be a fun story, not a factual, technically correct how-to document.
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That's exactl why it was fun to critiquue.

Of course, if we find another man in our house, we can just call Wilson. Unless it is Wilson, in which case we offer him a drink to go with his fried mackerel.

I seem to remember the ribbon rigs (made with single strand wire) back when I were a young fisher person in Ft Lauderdale at Anglin's pier, so I guess they at least made it that far! Never understood why they worked, though the scrapping theory sounds as logical as anything else.