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What have you got to say about the topic of: "The No BS Pikers Pit". Here's how is started: "Hi Don, The Katherine Ann is a nice little sportfish. It is Capt. Dougs boat, "
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02-05-2007, 07:53 PM
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| Hi Don, The Katherine Ann is a nice little sportfish. It is Capt. Dougs boat, a guy who works part time with me. Mine is Fortuna.I have 3 Lee swivel holders across the stern, I run bent butt 80 s out of those, but they are stand up short strokers, if I have to take em out I can. I run straight butt 50's and 30's on everything else. Pulled the chair as soon as I got the boat, never looked back. I think you get better control, and get em in quicker than with a chair.... Thanks for the props on the site....Another Piker quality, I did the entire site myself, gets hosted for 49 bucks a year!!!
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02-05-2007, 08:03 PM
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| NBS Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: brooklyn
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| its great to see the progress of this thread....it shows pikers are every place,even some in disgise.lol capt dom...  
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02-05-2007, 08:10 PM
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  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: CT / Summer in RI
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| Well, based on all that, I truly "might" be a piker (a redneck I have been accused already, and accepted). I am a pack rat and try to do all my work, as cheeeeep as possible. | ||
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02-05-2007, 08:16 PM
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02-05-2007, 08:36 PM
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| Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Madison Ct
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| I would like to know where the name (Pikers) came from.I too have done almost everything on the list and Ive added to my list .I bought something at the Providence boat show called Atomic Tape.This stuff does it all- self bonding -water tight-withstands 700 PSI-resists heat 500 degrees -so for a mere 20 bucks I have 3 rolls of fix everything under the sun tape  Here the link for it.http://www.atomictape.com/ | ||
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02-05-2007, 08:45 PM
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| Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Blue Planet
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| pik?er (pī'kər)  n. Slang.
Word Origins   Library > Words > American Word Origins piker Origin: 1858 Pike County, Missouri, is located on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis and just south of Mark Twain's Hannibal. It is still a quiet rural county, noted for the Stark Brothers Nursery and not much else. But its name is known nationwide, thanks to Pikers, who followed the gold rushes to California and Colorado in the mid-nineteenth century. By the late 1850s they were so prominent in these adventures that Piker became the nickname for anyone from Missouri, not just from Pike County. We find them in a Marysville, California, newspaper of 1860: "Pillbox said they were there for the benefit of the 'Pikers,' that they might learn to read." The Pikers were not noted for quickness of wit or spectacular success at finding gold, but they did gain a reputation for frugality. A Piker would not gamble, drink, or spend his money to excess. Thus he was viewed by the free-spending majority as a timid cheapskate. And so piker, having lost its association with a particular place and thereby its capital letter, came to mean someone of no boldness or ambition, someone who ventures little and always plays it safe. The term applied first to small-stakes gamblers, then to small-stakes investors in the stock market, then to slackers in any enterprise. Missouri nowadays has no more pikers than anyplace else. The last line could also be interpreted as " Pikers are everywhere"...
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02-05-2007, 08:51 PM
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That Atomic tape seems impressive. I'm almost sold, however a Piker never pays full price for anything.
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02-05-2007, 08:55 PM
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02-05-2007, 08:58 PM
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Normal Retail: $31.98 + S&H for 3 rolls Show Price: $20.00 for 3 rolls Nice stuff. McGyver would be green with envy. Hey, if you wrap a strip around your finger tip, good, you are racing to get it off b4 gangrene sets in, and it don't come undone EZ. | |||
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02-05-2007, 09:09 PM
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