You know you are a lowliner when---

[Salty]

I wish there were likes to press on this site.

[Salty]

You know you are a Lowliner when you dip into your retirement fund to afford fish expo.

[entropy1]

---when fish expo is just a flyer that comes in the mail. What's this retirement fund thing?

[Salty]

AN inheritance left by an aunt who married a successful author/professor entropy. You didn't actually think this Lowliner made enough trolling to build a retirement fund did you? LOL. Happy thanksgiving, I will chuckle all day.

[Salty]

When you go to 3 days of fish expo and all you buy is $10 worth of cleaner for your wife to clean the sinks after putting up the pollock by catch for winter sustenance. (True story this year). Well, maybe pollock, or similar.

[Hans2]

You know you're a lowliner when Joel doesn't even try to make you buy raffle tickets at the ATA meeting at Pacific Marine Expo.

[Salty]

I have bought two books from ATA Board members plus one from Joel. Supporting ATA is the best deal for us lowliners.

[Hans2]

I think having expendable income for raffle tickets, no matter how justified, would be a highliner topic.

[Salty]

Part of the expenses. But you do have a point, most highliners invest in their organizations.

[Hans2]

Touche...
As a first-year guy with likely the lowest king score for 2014 of any member on this board, I consider my initial ATA membership fees a strain as it is - but will proudly write that check. Next year, perhaps I have fewer mechanical issues and land on the fishing grounds in time to fish the king opener instead of the day it closes like I did this year. That would help me end up with enough money at the end of the season to donate to the cause that I depend on for a fishing future. I also hope those who can remember their first season and the risks they took to get there - and through it - can appreciate how every dollar counted towards better being ready for their second year.

You know you're a lowliner when you feel the need to defend your decision to not buy raffle tickets by explaining you're not a tongue-in-cheek lowliner, but an actual flesh and blood example.

[Salty]

Great one Hans. Been there.

[Salty]

I was at a fisherman's party last night and another fisherman suggested that in the troll community there needed to be a "high whiner" award.

[elhewman]

You don't have a boat yet.

[Salty]

Ether an,

No boat = no liner.

[mydona]

When you didn't fish your boat and permit last year and feel like you came out money ahead... but your heart is telling you can't miss next year

[Salty]

My doña,

You didn't suffer with us last year?

[Salty]

You know you are a Lowliner when your son gives the high quality volt meter to his trolling buddies who might benefit from it. You don't get one.

[Salty]

You might be a Lowliner when MR is on your speed dial, you have Aluminum anodes, and you still don't catch.

[Salty]

You might be a Lowliner if you didn't submit comments on Alaska Board of Fish proposals. (This is one I don't qualify for. Mine are in.)

[Salty]

You might be a Lowliner when you are a "Chumtroller".