wanna tell fishing stories?

[outsyde yn]

want to tell fishing stories?  I like fishing cause i get to be with my family and they get in a good mood.  One time my family went fishing to this place with slippery rocks and we were fishing from on top of the rocks and one by one everybody slipped into the water at different times.  it was so funny.  My dad went in the furthest.

and one time I caught a big fish with my bare hands in a stream.  I couldn't believe it and my friend was so surprised that she wet her pants.  we laughed really hard.  as it turns out we couldn't eat the fish cause it was almost dead anyway with eggs in it.

i've gone fishing a lot.  mainly just fresh water fishing.  sometime I want to try deep sea fishing though.

bye
Clair

[Siberian Husky]

i dont fish..never have...

but i DO hunt...im actually hunting right now

im hunting a  female pianist with a huge Rach.........repertoire


no but seriously...i guess the closest thing i'v come to fishing..is working at petsmart and netting fish for little kids who will just drop the bag on the way out

[Tash]

i went fishing once when i was about 10 with my cousins. i nearly caught a pufferfish or so we thought it was but it wouldn't stay on the hook, so i caught nothing. a great experience that as you can tell i found so riveting i never did it again

[pianonut]

i don't want to disrupt the posters here who are professional fishermen/women - but i grew up in alaska so my dad made us go fishing three or four times whether we wanted to or not.  once was ice fishing.  basically, you cut a hole in the ice and sit there really still with a stick (bobbing it up and down).  whoever stays out ice fishing the longest, wins.  

ok.  then there's hulligan fishing.  they are seasonal (can't remember when).  you put on hip waders and take a net and just make a wide swath, and voila, lots of little 4-5-6 inch fish.  they don't have to be cleaned since they are so little.  this is my favorite of all fishing sports (but have only done it twice- due to fish stealing and purse stealing on the beach)  my mother once lost her purse, hulligan fishing.  while people fish on shore, other people fish in unlocked cars.  (alaska used to be such an honest place).

then, there's salmon fishing.  in a boat, of course.  i've never caught one.  but, my son did (a beauty).  it was maybe 16 inches.  we took a picture and then he looked like he was going to throw up.  (being that he grew up in california - i later found out the guys were telling him to cut the head off and gut it).  needless to say, i had to gut the fish (which made my son vow never to eat fish again).  at least he has a heart.  maybe i lost mine a long time ago.  fish guts never really bothered me.

oh the smell of fishing.  it smells everything up. the camper.  your clothes.  your hair.  i would say, if you want to have a really good time, get a bear involved.  

[Lance Morrison]

fishing is very dear to me. i couldn't do it for a couple of years though because of moral concerns.

when I was much younger I fished for bass and sunfish. they can still be fun to catch.

then i began to pursue catfish. I still enjoy them immensely--hope to catch a big flathead in a muddy river someday--and I dream of going for the largest species of catfish in the world, the south american Piraiba (estimated to reach 600 lbs)

then I finally matured and began to fish for carp. As a person who loves fish as creatures, the common carp is my absolte favourite. Though carp are non-native to north american waters, they truely are a superior species of fish. and I think they are often just beautiful as well. I have had such wonderful times pursuing cyprinus carpio....of course die Karpfen is a much more popular fisch in europe, but unfortunately there the carp are much fatter and less athletic than here in the states. yet i would still like to do some angling there for the wonderful tench and barbel!

and then of course we come to the greatest challenge midwestern waters have to offer, ctenopharyngoden idella, the grass carp. I call them the greatest challenge because they are commonly quite large, are (according to people who have hooked them) quite powerful, live in very treacherous fishing environments, and are very tough to get to bite--I certainly have never gotten one to bite, much less had one on the line. they are primarily vegetarians--though certain evidence would indicate that they also have a diet of insects and perhaps can become even predatory once the food supply of vegetation runs out. so I go to these little grassy ponds, trying to quietly lay a bed of vegetable chum to tempt a grass carp. but these are fish of acute perception--they ALWAYS have known when i am there, and never have eaten in my presence. I have only seen them eat when i have binoculars and am far away. i consider the people who bowfish for these beautiful creatures almost cowardly

i would also love to fish for the wonderful alligator gar, which is one of our largest freshwater species but is being killed off. I also hope that one day I will be able to catch the noblest fish in the world, the sturgeon, no matter which particular species it is (though huso huso would be amazing)

i really dont fish much anymore but really should