Comments on: “I only fish for the fishing, not the catching”

By: Village Talkies

Village Talkies — Sat, 30 May 2020 09:30:18 +0000

By: Art

Art — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:40:05 +0000

On the other hand perhaps you just want to go down by the lake and have a nice nap in the evening when the heat of the day breaks and a slight breeze pick up off the water. Go down by the lake for a nap and people will talk about how idle you are. Take a pole with you and toss the unbaited line into the water and observers will not be so quick to judge. You likely are simply resting up in case you have to expend energy to pull in the big one. Besides, fishing is both an activity and a sport.

So you can catch that nap without looking idle.

By: Benjamin Geiger

Benjamin Geiger — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:17:04 +0000

“Hey. Perch. Look at me. If you ever see a worm… in the shape of a J… swim away. That’s how we lost your Uncle Pike.”

By: JosÃ©

JosÃ© — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:50:31 +0000

I would never bash one – too messy and I don’t like prolonged suffering

If it makes any difference, there was no suffering, and there was no mess. The fish just had a dent in his head. And I swear I’m not a paid spokesman for the National Fish Bashing Association… Well, not anymore.

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:01 +0000

Greg –

But there isn’t a universal circumstance that will flip that switch. And honestly, I don’t think I have that one. While I can think of circumstances that might cause me to shoot a fish, I would never bash one – too messy and I don’t like prolonged suffering – that and I just like to shoot things (or cut them) far more than I like to beat on them…

Although I suppose if I was out fishing with you (or anyone else) and a fish landed beside you and was chewing you leg off and I didn’t have a gun, I might decide to bash it. But that’s not so much the result of a fish bashing switch, as it is a “I like you and don’t want you to lose a leg” switch.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:42:43 +0000

JosÃ©: It’s almost like there is a switch that turns on and make a man a fish-basher. Under certain circumstances.

By: Ged

Ged — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:38:46 +0000

“Catching fish isn’t the point. It’s the experience of fishing that matters.”

Folks who claim this are usually the ones who never catch anything.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:05:59 +0000

Asha: I need to get a couple of very full days of work done before I partake of the pleasure, so later in the week. I found an old stash of lures that we can divide up.

By: JosÃ©

When I was 11, my brother and I had a similar problem with a smallmouth bass. He was 16 inches, which was huge for our area (I never saw another smallmouth that exceeded 12 inches). For a few months, we watched this guy decimate the local minnow population, but no matter the bait we used, he was on to us. On several occasions, I actually maneuvered bait into his mouth, and that bastard still wouldn’t bite. Eventually, I jumped into the water, and corralled the fish into a shallow area. There, my brother hit him with a log. I do feel bad now for having killed such a smart fish, but he did taste good.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:28:55 +0000

@asha: Wow, my guess would be that you have an old carburettor car and your fuel has too low an octane rating so you’re getting the diesel effect. I can’t think of how to stop such a beast except by taking out the air filter and stuffing a rag into the carburettor to prevent fuel from reaching the cylinders; if you have a manual choke you could engage it and that’s sometimes enough to kill the engine. Old diesel engines with mechanical injectors could do that as well, although rather rarely since the method of switching them off involves cutting the air supply.