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Post by Grand Lunar on Apr 6, 2007 13:33:39 GMT -4
I figure I'll turn the discussions to some good old fashioned fun.
Anyone here enjoy fishing? What sort of experiences have you had? What sort of fish do you dream to catch? Any other questions I haven't thought of?
Me, I've often caught largemouth bass. Never kept 'em. I'm a big believer in catch and release.
The freshest fish I recall eating was a gag grouper. My dad caught it off a deep sea fishing boat, off of Islemarada (in the Florida Keys, for those that aren't local to the Plywood Sunshine state). Good eating.
I dream of reeling in a shark. Not too big an animal, though. A real challenge would be a goliath grouper. Need the stuff for them, though.
Okay, enough from me, I pass it on to whoever is interested.
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Post by lionking on Apr 9, 2007 14:18:00 GMT -4
I certainly enjoyed fishing since I was a kid and still do. I used to fish in the river in my village when we went on summer vacation. The fish there is thaught of to be like Truit fish. It can get big like it, but you'll have to be careful where you drop your hook (shady places, below roots of trees that interfere in the river,...) . You should be careful not to doany noise. The fish is known for its smartness too. It never rushes towards the hook. It passes next to it, moving its tail next to it to explore it. I used to put the food on hook as a dough made of bread that I wet in water. Some ppl put sugar and other stuff for it.
I was lucky to catch many big fish, but one was rarely big with respect to the ones I catched and that people catch.
There was a restaurant were the river and fish was contained next to it, so the fish can't get away and people can look at them and feed them, but not catch them. They grew bigger and bigger and it was enjoyable to look at them.
What fish I dream to catch? I would love to fish in a sea and catch some white shark with the net, since sharks are begining to reach our seas and are getting caught by fishermen year after year. They are following ships that travel around the world to eat its trash. I would like to touch a dolphin, but not to eat it of course. For eating, lots of fish are tasty (I don't know their translation to english) like Sultan Braheem, Ghobbos, A'armout, and a kind of Truit.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Apr 9, 2007 15:00:50 GMT -4
I used to fish occasionally when I was a kid but was never really good at it. I only ever caught one fish that was suitable to eat. What turned me off of fishing in that particular lake (or at least eating the fish from it) was the time one of my friends caught a fish that had some kind of weird tumor growing out of it's gills. Blech.
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Post by Dead Hoosiers on Apr 9, 2007 15:39:46 GMT -4
I've done some fly fishing for trout in the Kern, plain old pole fishing in a stream for salmon in Fairbanks but the dog kept jumping in and scared the fish--I caught nothing but a lot of a flak from other people; caught a shark in Florida, scuba'd for shellfish off Catalina, surf-casting in Big Sur, pier fishing, barge fishing, pond fishing, grunion hunting in Santa Monica. I toss back most of it--scared of contamination.
I'd like another crack at Alaskan salmon. I think I would eat that.
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Post by echnaton on Apr 9, 2007 20:45:06 GMT -4
I fish now and then when camping at nearby state parks when I get a chance. I rarely catch anything, but since I typically wake early when camping it is nice to get some quite time at a lake for an hour while the kids sleep. When I was a kid, we had some property north of Houston that had a 1 acre pond stocked with catfish. When we wanted to catch our dinner we would get in the row boat and throw fish food nest to the boat, then net the hungry beggars when they surfaced. Once we had our dinner, we would fatten the remainder up for the next catch. Not very sporting but we were young teens after all. I am investigating buying a fishing kayak so I can do some fishing out in Galveston Bay. Always remembering to keep a look out for a blue stone.
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Post by lionking on Apr 10, 2007 10:49:33 GMT -4
Ah, and I dream of catching fish in the Canadian ce ponds, where they dig a hole and catch big fish
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Post by reynoldbot on Apr 10, 2007 10:57:00 GMT -4
The last time I went fishing I caught a turtle. The hook went right through the top of it's head, but it was walking around like it was perfectly fine. I don't think the hook went through anything vitally important. It didn't even look like it knew there was a hook in it's head.
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