Badda-Bing......Badda Boom

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WOW!!  
You must have a pretty good relationship with that outfitter. If that were pulled on someone else they would have had to refund $1000 due to the omisssion of clothing.

How about this one in the Outdoors section of the Duluth News by Sam Cook  :

With wit and wisdom, Irv Benson lived well on the ‘Sag’

"Benson loved playing practical jokes. Once, while ice-fishing with Mildred and her husband, the late Tumsey Johnson, he had someone distract Tumsey. Benson attached an expired rabbit to Tumsey’s line and put it back down the hole. The story of Tumsey reeling up that rabbit is still told on Sag."

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starwatcher

Some pranks are recalled from several trips with boy scouts and separate trips with friends/family over the years.  Here are some.

Boys were worried about bears eating them.  When we heard of bear in camp sightings from some campers on a portage trail, the boys were particularly buzzed.   After dinner, my son, 14, was picking some blue berries, and came into close proximity to a black bear.  Beating on pans, the bear left but the boys were not going to go to sleep--they wanted a bonfire and someone to stand guard.  I told my son, who was in a different tent with other boys slightly older, to protect himself by sleeping in the middle of the tent, and, to rub some Jack Pine sap on his jeans as that is a natural deterrent.  It wasn't too long before they all had the pine sap on their clothes, and they took turns sleeping in the middle.

On another trip, the Outfitter asked if there was anything else he could do for our group as we neared our departure to Ely from Missouri.  I told him that what with all the food choices made by some of the other adults, we'd need a French Chef and maid in camp to take care of cooking and cleaning so that there would be enough time to fish.

Long about the second evening in camp, we dug out of one of 3 food packs a full sized inflatable doll--the anatomically correct kind.  No french maid or chef outfit, but we had a few travelers stop to share a cup of coffee and a story about our camp 'guest'.

pghportager wrote on Jul 7^th, 2009 at 2:03pm:


 When I group tripped with 3 other guys, one of them pulled this trick
Unfortunately for him, he made a few big mistakes!
 No. 1, he grabbed the line just a few feet above the stick bait with its 3 big treble hooks (barbed)
 No. 2,  he forgot the guy he was "pranking" had a bad habit of setting the hook so hard he often jerked the lure right out of the fish's mouth!
  I had to remove two trebles from his hand, which left him (or so HE said) unable to paddle very hard. Soooo I guess the joke backfired in one way, but his bow partner couldn't enjoy it, because HE had to do most of the paddling
 I say ALL pranks are fair game, as long as EVERYONE can take them and well as they dish them out, which often isn't the case

pghportager wrote on Jul 7^th, 2009 at 2:03pm:

Make sure you bring cloth bags along this time....so you can bring back the Snipe.   

I was not a rookie, but there was a watermelon in the food pack I was carrying one year.  We ate it on Yum Yum on night one.

The easy prank (not really a prank) is tugging on the bow man's fishing line as you're trolling along.  Works especially well if it's been a slow day of fishing and the spot you're over looks extremely fishy - gotta get that tug right though, with just the right amount of head shake.

My favorite all time prank, however, was one that was built up over a period of about two years, and everyone was in on it but us - on multiple websites even.  Tales of a get together, a "jamboree" to sort out the men from the boys, in a far off, hard to reach area with no portages or trails to follow.  We bit that one hard, hook line and sinker.     That joker is at it again this year, but we won't make the same mistake twice - this timewe're gonna follow some other suckers in. 

LOL Westwood... 

The definition of a good prank or practical joke is where both parties can laugh about it after the fact.  It shouldn't be mean spirited.  If friends play the occasional prank on friends, and it's done in fun, why would that be bad?

Why do you feel the way you do?

To each their own, but I think pranks or practical jokes do more harm than good.  The next time you plan a prank, think how you would feel if the prank was on you.

Westwood

Moose turds in the sleeping bag at the end of the trip.  When you get home and unpack you have a "small reminder" of the trip when you air out your bag.

I'll never forget !