(09-28-2013 06:15 PM)sonicsink Wrote: [ -> ]In addition to fishing, I also do metal detecting. Not an easy hobby to do with kids in tow, it's pretty boring for them It's also harder these days to find places to hunt and get permission from land owners. I think fishing and metal detecting are pretty similar though, I get the same excitement at seeing whats going to appear on the end of my hook as I do when I dig up my "treasure". You never know what you're gonna get!
(09-28-2013 06:15 PM)sonicsink Wrote: [ -> ]In addition to fishing, I also do metal detecting. Not an easy hobby to do with kids in tow, it's pretty boring for them It's also harder these days to find places to hunt and get permission from land owners. I think fishing and metal detecting are pretty similar though, I get the same excitement at seeing whats going to appear on the end of my hook as I do when I dig up my "treasure". You never know what you're gonna get!
Have any trophy metal catches?
Nothing that would let me retire for life LOL
I have found 2 gold necklace pendants...one was a religious disk about the size of a quarter, the other was an eagle clutching a small diamond.
The oldest coin I have found was from 1857.
The weirdest thing I have found was a gun wrapped in a plastic bag buried in my own backyard.
Current Hobbies:
- Gardening (Mostly vegetable gardening)
- Reading (have been migrating from Fiction to non-Fiction)
- issues in communications (Propaganda, tropes, mis-information, selective information presentation)
- Writing (struggling with narrative fiction)
- Watching Movies
- Various Dad activities (Hockey, Skating, Soccer, Biking )
- Donating blood (on track for 100th donation end of next year)
Old Hobbies:
- Softball (competitive and rec)
- Curling
- Rugby (quite sometime ago)
- Politics
- Social media
- Reading and book clubs (mostly fiction)
- Fossils (mostly trilobites and sharks teeth)
Used to be into all sorts of stuff when I was younger, sky-diving and hang-gliding were the most fun. Astronomy, birding, nature study in general, and photography, getting more into videography now. And ever since I was a kid I've been making plastic model aircraft, but these days I only do stuff in the crazy world of 'what if?', wherein participants make any thing from a simple build with a colour scheme that the aircraft never actually wore, or bash together something that's completely insane. A few years ago I combined that hobby with fishing and made a helicopter out of an old Rapala, the full story can be found here: http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Ga...ey/00.shtm
I have had many many different hobbies but one that I think was pretty cool is paintball. I'm still part of a team and have many sponsors. Check out the action footage!
Wow,
I have been absent for a while gang.... nice to be back on the forum again! Wow, I love this post.... what a great idea!
In addition to the fishing which I never seem to have enough time, I do a lot of photography! I am a avid street photographer and have been shooting weddings, events and models.
I also hold a amateur radio operators license which allows me to communicate, operate and build my own High Frequency radios and UHF/VHF radios.
I also have small kids and married so being a family man is a big commitment but the best thing by far in my life.
It's also harder these days to find places to hunt and get permission from land owners. I think fishing and metal detecting are pretty similar though, I get the same excitement at seeing whats going to appear on the end of my hook as I do when I dig up my "treasure". You never know what you're gonna get!
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