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Kevin Bogan

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View PostBack to the thread. Lamiglas and Ron Arras' were brought up by others, not me. You brought it up, lets look carefully at it. I stated that many Ron Arras are returned broken to retail stores and wholesalers. I hear this frequently, I am not making it up. Is this TRUE or FALSE?

 

 

How many have you built, and how many have you had returned to you with breakage that was attributable to defective design?

 

I never post about what I've heard. I post based on my own personal experience. I have a pretty good collection of Arra rods. I have two 1322 customs, one of which I've had since 1996. I have two custom 126 1MH rods, one of which I've had since 1997. I have one 1204 custom, which is now called the 1203 model. And I have three 1205 models, one custom conventional and 2 FACTORY spinning models. I haven't managed to break any ofem, so my answer based on PERSONAL experience is FALSE.

 

8 rods, no breakage.

 

Lest you think I baby my gear, I invite you to take a trip up to the Cape Cod Canal and watch me play fish in waters that allow no room to dick around with fish. I horse fish on those rods. Come up and see me fish my custom 1205 conventional, with 50# braid on a Penn 525, and watch me lock the spool with my thumbs and wrestle a fish away from a bridge abutment. Using the rod alone. I fish hard and I ask a lot out of my tackle. These rods have yet to let me down.

 

Sir, I will say this to you with all the respect I can muster. I have watched your style here. I have never met you in person, so I don't know your real personna. But your internet personna is that of a pompous, arrogant, opinionated, stubborn man with no respect for anyone's opinion but your own. I have no real desire to engage you in any further discourse in this forum and will henceforth refrain from it.

"…if catching fish is your only objective, you are either new to the game or too narrowly focused on measurable results.” - D. Stuver

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Sir, I will say this to you with all the respect I can muster. I have watched your style here. I have never met you in person, so I don't know your real personna. But your internet personna is that of a pompous, arrogant, opinionated, stubborn man with no respect for anyone's opinion but your own. I have no real desire to engage you in any further discourse in this forum and will henceforth refrain from it.

 

DJ,

I think you did a mighty fine job of mustering.

 

Todd

Todd R. Vivian
Mud Hole Custom Tackle
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View PostI have to tell all of you that I have been following this thread since it first began and have had numerous chuckles.

Keep up up the good work.

 

Todd

 

 

Todd,

 

Now you just need a bottle of Grey Goose and big MikeG and we've got a party lol

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View Postif MikeG cant make it the video will do

 

 

Mike,

 

Sorry you couldn't make it to Tabernacle in April.............Believe it or not there is another 30 minutes or so of fall off your chair funny video. I almost coughed up a lung watching it.

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View PostThe rules simply dont apply, to some.

 

 

Kevin , I'm getting sick and tired of you trying to tell me how to moderate this forum. The forum rules , as I have consistantly applied them for many many years , apply to all.

 

Its too bad that "the rules" are not "your rules". You think I should be coming to your rescue every time you make stupid claims, back them up with nothing but glittering generalities, sarcastically respond to opposing views, then cry for mamma ((moderators) when people get sick of you and your trolling and use plain english to tell you what they think of you and your opinions.

 

 

In fact the moderation by me and others has been extremely generous in giving you the benefit of the doubt and letting you put on your clown act. From your first posts , your participation has been detrimental to forum. You have moved a feud that was created on other web sites , to this web site which is one of the biggest no no's in "the rules". You would see this whole forum spoiled just so you can play your trolling games. You'd have to be stupid not to notice that differnt arguments involve all different long time posters on one side but always you on the other. This forum has had short lived flare ups before then everybody has a group hug and we move on. Since you showed up , it been a long slow slide down hill.

 

 

If you don't like the way I moderate here , go somewhere else.

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I wonder if Todd knew the qualifications and standards for a "blank designer" have fallen as low as they have. I guess I'm also a "blank designer". I would NEVER refer to myself as such, and do not try to portray myself as somethign I am not. I know what I want in a blank, and can relay that to a company that has an ACTUAL blank designer, and they use their professional knowledge and experiance to mak somthign that suits what I'm looking for. In NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM, am I a blank designer, that's such a slap in the face to the few people in the industry who are true specialists in that field and had to work their way up and asses off, and more than likely go to some sort of school for composites (guessing).

"the internet is the greatest platform for people who don't know anything, to tell people how much they don't know, to people who don't know anything and believe everything they read."
-Billy 40:16

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I didn't see DJ's exchange with Mr know-it-all while I was composing my own response .

 

Kevin , you are not picking your enemies wisely. clown.gif

 

 

I have to go to my Chinese language lesson. The Chinese makes a lot more sense to me than the posts I have been reading today.

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Billy,

I suspect each company has it's own (maybe different) ideas of what a blank designer is. What I can tell you is that it isn't getting in 48 blanks and selecting 6-8 of them. That is SHOPPING!!!!!!!!

 

Hope to see you down here in October,

 

Todd

Todd R. Vivian
Mud Hole Custom Tackle
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This thread has far exceeded its life.

Hopefully nobody will mind if I shut down this thread. If anyone does they are welcome to ***** and moan to me via the PM service. But If you do, please be prepared for direct and blunt response. As a shared moderator for this site I have always maintained a standoff attitude no matter how much misinformation is conveyed. And as informative as this site can be, there is still a good amount of people that speak and offer opinions that have no business doing so. And for the record I am not singling out one person here. But threads like this that turn into opportunities to embarrass and berate people need to be stopped. Even if the people involved are doing a great job of self destructing on their own. Respecfully Big Dave

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