Best and worst Christmas presents

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Kevin Roberts

Kevin Roberts
I'm sure many of us recieved good (and bad!) wine-related presents from well-intentioned (and sometimes not-so-well-intentioned) relatives and friends.

My worst wine-related present would have to be a bottle of this:

You know it's good when the website makes absolutely no mention of the wine itself.

My family and friends weren't entirely without gift-giving skills. I did get a subscription to Art of Eating, and money to buy a whole pig from Lois and Bill's farm.

Oh and argyle socks. I love argyle socks.

Cheers,

Kevin

Edited to actually link.
 
Decorative bottle stoppers. Over the years I have collected a box full. It's come to the point where I will be disappointed if I don't get one for Christmas.

Best,
Kay
 
AoE and the Pig would make up for a lot of bad gifts.

Loads of gaudy or oversized corkscrews, especially the bike-pump-corkscrew-thingie which has made its way under my tree more than once.

I did get an ice auger, though! Hello, Maine!
 
Jiffy Model 30 8"

I've never gone before, not much call for it where I last lived, but I love to fish and drink so it seems perfect. I hope ice fishing will allow me settle the score with some trout who laugh at my flies the rest of the year.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
AoE and the Pig would make up for a lot of bad gifts.

Loads of gaudy or oversized corkscrews, especially the bike-pump-corkscrew-thingie which has made its way under my tree more than once.

I did get an ice auger, though! Hello, Maine!
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The whole pig totally makes up for all bad presents. I'm jazzed as hell to start my adventures in nose to tail pig cookery.

I've never used anything but a manual auger, but then I've neither been ice fishing nor lived in Minnesota for 10 years, sounds like fun.
 
originally posted by Joe_Perry:
Jiffy Model 30 8"
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Wow! Congratulations. Find someone who knows what their doing to show you how it's done, it will save you some frustration. Or maybe you'll be a natural. Either way good luck on the ice, it's a lot of fun.

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I was dragged off to go ice fishing in Colorado on the day after Christmas about ten years ago. It was with some Christian fundamentalists friends of my sister's who apparently had a masochistic evangelical streak. No drinking ensued (it's the devil's brew, you know) but praying for inner warmth and killing lots of fish were okay. At least we didn't have to sing Christmas carols.

Holes were drilled (manually, for those keeping track), fishing lines and baited hooks were dropped into the holes and they stood around talking about Jesus (and it wasn't the bowling pederast Jesus Quintana from "The Big Lebowski either) while we waited for the fish to arrive. They either didn't get the "we're going ice fishing and you're invited" memo or maybe it was just too damn cold even for them, but no fish made their presence known over three hours, but my fishing companions used the time to lecture me on my wanton ways* before conceding defeat and we all headed off to a pancake breakfast.

-Eden (here to testify that once can be "too many times" when it comes to ice fishing)

*as opposed to complaints about my wonton weighs back when I worked the takeout counter at a Chinese deli during my wayward, misspent youth.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
It's for removing hooks without hurting the fish. That bass was released to fight another day.

Plus we smoke bowls.
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so, you go barbless as well, or is that just insane with ice fishing?
 
This year my wife gave me a bottle of Domaine Gramenon Ceps Centenaires La Meme 2007. Excited to try it - never have before.

Other than that all my wine presents have been gift certificates, so no real bad ones to speak of yet.
 
SFJoe: You could manage okay without barbs but they do hold the bait on the hook. Ice fishing, and fishing with bait in general, is a blood bath but we do our best to minimize the damage and we keep most of the catch and especially anything that's not going to make it if released.
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
It's for removing hooks without hurting the fish. That bass was released to fight another day.

Plus we smoke bowls.
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so, you go barbless as well, or is that just insane with ice fishing?
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'Stats are key for catch and release. I bend my fly barbs down, but with ice traps I don't think you can set a hook without them?
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Note to Joe Perry: Do not go out ice fishing with Eden's sister, she doesn't know how to do it right.
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I'd bring the Fat Jesus and my one-man wolf pack would grow by one.
 
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