Wolfeman Curse Not Over After All

[big bend gyrene]

Subject line's a bit misleading. The lack of a keeper cobia portion of the Wolfeman curse IS over... but the general bad luck portion, that's alive and well.

So I'm doing some garage cleanup late yesterday afternoon and I smell something... think, "Something has definitely died in the garage." Keep a fairly clean garage so am able to eyeball it for a second or two. Think to myself, "Don't SEE anything dead?"

Use my nose to guide me to the smell of death, and stop right in front of my tall tackle box. Appreciating that I have multiple jars of various goodies in gulp juice in the bottom half of my tackle box, think, "This CANNOT be good..."

Have to say at this point that during the free cobia trip offered to Wolfeman he brought no tackle so he had to use mine, and as fate would have it he needed some gulp to tip his sabiki rig and I told him where it was with the UBER-CLEAR request, "Wolfeman, make sure that the jars stay upright as one of them doesn't seal well."

So back to the smell of death story... with much trepidation I lift the top half of my tackle box off the bottom half to weigh the damage... and... LORD HAVE MERCY UPON MY SOUL... what I find is one of the rankest sights I've seen and that's having served in a combat M.O.S. in the USMC. Best way I know to describe it was that the smell was comprised of equal parts rotting flesh, rotting fish, toe cheese, vomit, and feces from some sick animal.

So bad the gag reflex is kicking in STRONG.

The visual is almost as bad... obvious volume of gulp juice in the bottom of the box but also looks like intestines from some mystery animal have been thrown in? NO FREAKING IDEA what Wolfeman dumped in the bottom, but know it must be cleaned pronto between waves of intermittent gagging. Almost too nasty to share but here's the sight that greeted me...

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What the picture DOESN'T show is the items that had been bathing in the RANK solution for going on 5 days. Threw away an unopened sabiki rig because it had turned into a black blob in the package, had a pack of braided line that was saturated in the stuff, some 3 ounce lead sinkers that looked like they developed cancer, and a pack of unopened plastic swim-bait lures that somehow took on 4 or so ounces of the death juice.

So, yep, Wolfeman, takes a free half day trip out and throws the cobia curse aside, but I get stuck not only with cost of gas, sodas, food, beer, tackle used DURING trip, fish cleaning chores, boat washing duties, BUT now lose ANOTHER HALF DAY futilely trying to salvage tackle. Just don't seem right.

[DixieReb]

It's your fault for invit'in him. I haven't had that happen with Gulp, but I had a bottle of 2-cycle oil leak into my spare tackle box that messed up some good stuff.

[FUTCHCAIRO]

HEY BBG, IF YA WOULD TAKE AN OLD COL. OUT ON YOUR BOAT AND FURNISH EVERTHING LIKE THAT I GUARANTEE I WOULD AT LEAST CLEAN AND WASH DOWN THE BOAT AND PAY FOR HALF OF THE GAS. HA HA HA HA
PA
SEMPER FI

[big bend gyrene]

100% believe you, PA! I need to make that happen. Doesn't seem right having a boat named Marine's Dream and not have had you, CS Marine, and other local jarhead BBF members aboard!

[WolfeMan]

I'm confused, what leaked? I was super careful.

As i close my eyes, I can picture the arrangement of items and the series of events that had me in there in the first place...

On the left, was a jar of some kind, full of something that I didn't touch, on top was a brown plastic publix-bag that had misc. tackle included, like a bobber or something...a ring of leader and another small circular container on top of that, on the right was another jar of gulp that was wet when I picked it up and asked "This one?". I lifted it up and you saw it and said something like "That one leaks, be extremely careful!" and I think I recall saying "Yeah, there's some juice in the bottom, I see what you mean." so I placed it back, right where I lifted it from and retrieved the oval shaped container of dry(er) gulps, pulled out a couple tails and re-packed the box. Everything was as I found it when I closed the lid. I guarantee! The leaky jar was already wet and there was definitely some brown juice in the bottom of the tackle box when I went in there. Heck, you had that thing packed so precisely that if it hadn't been arranged just right the box wouldn't have closed, right?

The jar was upright, wasn't it?

That sucks dude, I'm really sorry. I surely thought I was being careful - but I honestly think it was leaky and spilled before I ever got onboard. I'm not an idiot, and I do respect other people's things, despite what this thread may imply to the contrary.

[big bend gyrene]

Wolfeman, all I'z is sayin' is that if'n it were in the condition I found it when you opened it, we BOTH would have been having troubles breathing and possibly had to abandon ship for relief. It was THAT bad!

As bumpy as the ride was on the way out, guessing that at some point the leaky jar tipped, thus the lack of stewing for days / truly sickening smell after it had just spilled. And I'm with you on 99% of your story, but sure don't remember you telling me there was juice already leaked?! Had I heard that, I would have been on clean up duty gangbusters style that very second.

[bman]

On most of our hunting/fishing trips Wolfeperson gets a little queasy... In fact we got him a camo barf bag last year.
Are you sure he didn't just deposit something when you were not looking?

[WolfeMan]

So, yep, Wolfeman, takes a free half day trip out and throws the cobia curse aside, but I get stuck not only with cost of gas (which WolfeMan offered cash for), sodas (I'll bring you 2 diet pepsis), food (I ate the snickers bar I brought), beer (a celebratory beer never had such a bitter after-taste a week later), tackle used DURING trip (at least this time the hooks didn't break!), fish cleaning chores (which Wolfeman assisted with), boat washing duties (Which WolfeMan was release from for family obligations), BUT now lose ANOTHER HALF DAY (4 hours? You're slow) futilely trying to salvage tackle (you threw away lead weights because they smelled?) . Just don't seem right.

Edited that for you, buddy!

[WolfeMan]

On most of our hunting/fishing trips Wolfeperson gets a little queasy... In fact we got him a camo barf bag last year.
Are you sure he didn't just deposit something when you were not looking?

I did have Mexican food the night before.....maybe I upper-decked his tackle-box.

[WolfeMan]

And John, given your loose relationship with the truth (offering to post a picture of a short Cobe as a keeper and your "orca" story) - I wouldnt be surprised if you added a little wet cat-food to this picture to make it look worse!

Exhibit A: The Orca Story
http://www.bigbendfishing.net/phpBB3/vi ... ca#p251261

Exhibit B: From a website ironically named "TheHullTruth"
http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-out ... zil.html#b

I surely thought our Marines were trained to be honest and forthcoming in all things! Ah well, Semper Fidelis - unless you spill some gulp juice! Then, forget it!



Love ya, man...and not in the zima-drinking pedicure way, either.

Still can't wait to eat some of my ill-gotten fish fillets! Been on the road for business this week.

[WolfeMan]

(to be fair to Mr. Kennedy, I've been running with the 25-30 lb weight when describing the fish to friends - after all, that was your estimate from the video. Even though the fish later weighed in just a little over 20 lbs.) Fishing is mostly lies anyway, LOL!

[big bend gyrene]

Nope, not an ounce of cat food! Honest injuns, exactly as found. PROMISE, was WAY too rank to play with one second more than necessary.

And don't be mean-spirited putting words in my mouth I didn't say! NEVER said let's call your short a keeper! Just said we don't have to specify it's length. Plenty of folks post pictures of fish without mentioning catch specifications. Nothing wrong with that! As for Orca, intent was to upset only one individual on that one... a certain unnamed individual who wouldn't make time to be on the water with a few of his close friends who dearly love him.

Have to add the trick WORKED LIKE A CHARM!

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[WolfeMan]

Nope, not an ounce of cat food! Honest injuns, exactly as found.

That's freakin nasty...what was the sludge, do you think?

PROMISE, was WAY too rank to play with one second more than necessary.

And don't be mean-spirited putting words in my mouth I didn't say! NEVER said let's call your short a keeper! Just said we don't have to specify it's length. Plenty of folks post pictures of fish without mentioning catch specifications. Nothing wrong with that! As for Orca, intent was to upset only one individual on that one... a certain unnamed individual who wouldn't make time to be on the water with a few of his close friends who dearly love him.

Fair enough, I'll bring barf-bags next time...if there is one.

FYI - they might not have taught you this at Camp Lejeune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Lying_by_omission

[big bend gyrene]

Wolfeman, you forget I wasn't an officer but an enlisted man... ethic classes? Heck, us enlisted guys had to work for a living.

Semi-joking aside you need to enlist so you can learn that the military fully appreciates shades of gray when it comes to ethics, at least in the Corps they do. Walked straight from the "Lying by omission" class to the "Gear drift is gear gift" class. Not sure you'll appreciate the humor in this post, but other jarheads likely will.

[WolfeMan]

And to be sure, you had co-conspirators in the Orca Affair. I recall a certain realtor being on-board the vessel that day.

'Tis a shame really - when you can't trust the military, or real estate professionals. LOL!