What is your Expertise?

If you are like me I come to this site seeking o increase my knowledge on fishing. James, and the entire FTR/EFN staff are without a doubt the experts for our stretch of the Mississippi. We seek there knowledge and input daily, which they gladly give.

Now many of you have areas in which you are an EXPERT.

I am sure we have a large and diverse group which makes “us”.

I was just wondering what your area of EXPERTISE may be. On the river or in your other life.

This is not for an ego trip or anything like that I was just interested in seeing what type of diversity we have. Also, if you have certain ability and want to share what info you possess you may help as a resource to others, (only if you want)

I will start with what I may consider myself to be good at. I am a strength and conditioning coach and have/had been a fairly successful nationally ranked powerlifter. I realize this is useless information to most, but, if you have question is this area feel free to ring me up some time.

ps. I realize with the topic I am just asking for some smart “A” input, such as “I am a professional Frisbee repair man”

which I have put as my job title, but if we could keep it to a minimum that would appreciated.

Computer geek here — all web stuff — consultant by trade. Also, while I haven’t fished with James, I got a chance to work with his dad Al on some e-commerce stuff for about a year. In fact, that’s how I first learned of FTL/FTR.

Small world.

I keep pool 4 free of sharks,and i do a very good job of it..not a one has been spotted since i moved here in 84.. ..well you did kinda ask for it

You can ask me just about anything you wanna know about metal, I can bore you to death. I am also pretty good at drinking canned BEvERages from a cooler in a boat while I search endlessly for the elusive 30+” walleye.

Man, what’s a “Pup” to do with this?

I don’t feel like an expert at anything but I have an unending thirst for knowledge, fun, and people.

Jobs have come and gone……..from grunt to manager, retail to factory, driving parts, people, forklift, dump truck, sales to assembly, volunteer to director, musician to entertainer, pack rat to collector………….and somehow developed a career in telecommunications through all this………..and became a student of fatherhood. Currently developing businesses in consultation and e-commerce. I figure it’s the only way I’ll ever be able to fish and get paid for it!

As for fishing………(getting back to the IMPORTANT STUFF!)…………I think the only thing I absolutely excel in is getting the line wet! I’ve tossed enough lures to shore and trees to see an inconsistancy factor in getting lures wet. But line………..yep!……………it’s wet everytime.

Equipment would be another area I’m not an expert in but have a decent “consumer’s base” of knowledge. Tons of lures, lines, rods, and reels.

I’m the Aitkin county Elephant control officer.



Two can play this game!!!

Jack of all trades master of none.

The job I currently hold (been doing 26 yrs.) I stumbled into. I’m a supervisor. In other words I get work done through other people!

I’m with Greg. BEER!

expert = ex + spurt
ex = has been
spurt = drip
expert = has been drip

I wasn’t going to go into detail but…

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hand gliding. On Wednesdays, after work, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes.

Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned my fame in international botany circles. Politicians trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish and entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami.

Years ago I discovered the meaning of life by forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using only a Mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

Hugh Gallagher

I’m a x-ray technologist by education but I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time. When the concept of quality control hit in radiology I got in on the ground floor. Because there were so few of us nationally I got on the lecture tour and had a chance to publish several technical articles and co-author a book. One of the most interesting things I’ve done was I was a part of a volunteer team that went into Kuwait right after Desert Storm to help them get there hospital back on there feet. When we got there wasn’t running water or electricity. You definitely didn’t want to step off a sidewalk. Saw several people in the hospital that tripped land mines. If some of you wonder why I’m so surly about some of the notions that are posted here is I’ve spent way to much time dealing with peoples irrational fears of radiation. Much of fear is fired by crap that is published in the popular press. If I see crap I call it crap. Speaking of crap, lead lure hype was my latest passion.
Right now I’m working on retiring some more fish are in trouble.

so…what your saying there J, is your multi talented??But i see your lacking in one area….underwater baskit weaving… i do give lessons…for a nominal fee….lol

Haywood this is a very good topic.It is neat to read about others and what they do or have done.Guys I love to hunt and fish,just being outside.I try to do my best with my wife,kids,and friends.I work for Tyson Foods in a Deli Beef department so I can make and inject many types of hams and beef!Also I do rank beer drinking as a very good hobby as well.
Haywood I use to compete in Powerlifting as well.181# class in the ADFPA and Minn-Dak as well.That was about 25#’s and 10 years ago.My older brother was a lifter also,he used to go all over the midwest.It looks like we can all address our beer belly questions to you now!!!!
Ryan Hale

I was a Maint. man for 25 years and now am operating boilers. I did that during my NAVY years 72-76. Now I fish ALOT, and hunt turkey-deer-pheasant when I’m not fishing.

I once did some plumbing I fixed Farrah’s Faucet and Olivea Newton’s John well, you asked for it

Marketing Consultant… Right now that’s short for finding somebody to buy something they have been looking for from somebody they don’t know and can’t find…. the person they buy it from knows somebody out there needed the something they had to sell but couldn’t find anybody to buy it. In marketing lingo I find alternative or nontraditional channels of distribution for products. If you click on Ecklor Distributing in my signiture at the bottom of this post you will see right now it is computer reference and computer textbooks.

Okay. I write long diatribes about absolutely nothing useful. Thus far, I have only been published for pay in the Dominican Republic but hope to go worldwide one day. People need to listen better!

I am a world famous embroidery design digitizer. If you don’t know what that is, don’t ask. I have no way of explaining it.

I’ve been an accountant in two languages, a musician and a great party host. I respect the CIA, but don’t know what they do.

I have never used a Mouli, but want to learn. I can’t cope with plastic siding but would definitely learn if someone would pay me lots of money.

I fish. Not enough. Need more time to do that so I can get good at it, although I have been known to catch a sheephead in my bare teeth.

ROFL!!!

OK. New rule. Anyone that hangs out here and knows my parents has to notify me in writing from now on at the time of registration…lol

Good to have you around -=J=- ! My dad’s a good guy but if you had to work with him for a year I know why you fish…. lol

I should forward him this thread…. Hmmmmmmmm

By the way, loved your post as well as some of the others. We have a creative bunch around here to say the least.

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Computer geek here — all web stuff — consultant by trade. Also, while I haven’t fished with James, I got a chance to work with his dad Al on some e-commerce stuff for about a year. In fact, that’s how I first learned of FTL/FTR.

Small world.

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Trying to resist… cant leave topic alone…. must give in….

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy – the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.

Sorry for rambling about my rearing-bond trader for a bank. I manage a portfolio of short term fixed income securities.

I am a mild mannered science student by day, but at night I sling web’s and fly around the city fighting crime!!

Dave B… that does NOT look like Mr Bigglesworth that your holding in that pic there… has he been mutated by your evil plans?

No Rivereyes-that is a walleye. Maybe someday you will learn how to catch them yourself.

Here are some pics of MossBoss in action!!!

Yeah, if you’ve ever fished with MossBoss you know for a fact that’s him. You can see him a mile away on the bow of his Ranger snarin’ Bass with his web slingin’ prowess. Oh, and the red jump suit really sticks out too. He can’t dance that well though.

I dance much better than that I’ll have you know. And much more manly. Think Kevin Bacon from Footloose!!

I also find the webslinging works well for pulling jerk jetskiers off their ride if tehy get too close, gumming up the props of competing fisherman, and also completley eliminates the need for a landing net or a weigh in bag to be carried in the boat!

I suppose you could make your own braided line to.

Spidey/ MossBoss,
Blue Fleck is just mad he does not have that web slining power to keep his trolling motor out of the water during take-off.
For the rest of you I know this is a bit inside. sorry

Hey, I EXCEL at that. I’m not the only one though. I saw a Stratos do it on pool 8 last weekend. They took a HUGE bath. Anyway, the water sure felt good and it beats driving an hour and a half to the Dells.

Thanks for all the responses so far. It’s just interesting to see what everyone else does!

Hey Haywood, I have been wanting to commend you on your shirt, Go Clones. Anyway back to the subject,I farm with my father and brother and cover 2000 acres of corn,beans and specialty crops.We were in a group of five farms who were the first I.S.O 9000 certified agricultural units in the United States. We now are in the proccess of getting contracts to grow specialty crops for end users in the US and Mexico. This is the tough part,maybe we need a good consultant .We now have a growers Guild of certified farms called “IQ-AG”located in SE Iowa.

Radionavigation – GPS.

Specifically, GPS/Inertial and anti-jam.