fishing

I've managed to convert a few other ironic punker types to the joys of fishing. But I let them all go, for a couple reasons... I'm squeamish about cleaning them, and the fish in the SF Bay are said to have unhealthy levels of mercury.

say, shouldn't all grandfathers be fishermen(at some point)?

FISTING?!?

(i haven't been fishing in over a decade, fwiw. it was fun, though!)

I haven't been near a lake for recreation since I got my drivers' license and could beg off family vacations to "watch the house." (ie drink myself into a stupor and eat ramen noodles for a week with the occasional party)

You don't catch cats with flies!

i called for a fishing/hunting FAP once and it was ignored (xpost)

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Now though I've started ggoing again a fair bit when I can fit it in and am building up my tackle collection, I do need a decent strong waggler rod though and my 11m pole is a bit old and knackered, I almost put my thumb through the no.3 section last summer.

Me and Vicky are going out for a day in the keys while on honeymoon and I'm looking forward to it tremendously.

this never happened, for various stupid reasons. i wish it did!

Chris caught this a few months ago, her belly was full to bursting with eggs http://www.icdphotos.com/lib/addtobasket12107.gif?ph=22837756&s=1&a=attrib&v=r090
Unfortunately we only had a camera phone with us

Fishing in the keys was amazing. Not the most successful, though we caught a couple of permit and some baby sharks, as well as bait fish.

so who fishes still on ile?

i got my licence this year and it's been great fun, despite the weather. Caught my first ever Pike a couple of weeks ago.

Going after work tonight, a small canal stretch to test my new rod

I used to go with my dad when I was wee but I didn't really participate.

I caught a small shark as an adult when I went sea fishing with my then-boyfriend's father. It was so cute but I ate it anyway.

My aunt and her husband have a boat on a lake a few hours from here. When we sit in the boathouse, fish and drink beer. Lots of carp, catfish, some bass. fun.

cool i've never fished for catfish before.

So you've never noodled either?

I went fishing under the condition that I would, in no way, shape, or form, actually touch the fish (gross). Luckily, I caught a large stick instead, so all it was all avoided.

My friend claims that this catfish came from the same lake where I went fishing. It could eat people, I'm sure.

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/C/05/86/66/image_1766865.jpg

holy moly!

I think that's a small child in its belly.

Also I think those guys noodle-ed it.

They totally look like noodlers! But, friend explained to me that these GIANT catfish hang out by this dam, and bottom feed up a storm. tbh, I was afraid, when I was swimming, that one of those mighty, slimy beasts would come up and swallow me whole.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1127/539420288_46d7cc544c.jpg?v=0

okay. noodled ?

Noodling is the great American sport of wrestling catfish. There was a documentary about noodlers in Oklahoma (is that right, Sam?) on public television over here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling

Yeah that was a great doc, check it out if you ever see it on.

Noodlers go around to where catfish will nest (near banks, in holes, etc) and thrust their fists in. The fish will bite down and they'll yank 'em out!

You can put noodling on my list of "Things I Never Ever Want to Do."

http://sports.espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoors/fishing/i/P2_f_col_noodling_Sutton2.jpg

I ain't Sam, but yep. The doc is titled, appropriately enough "Okie Noodling."

x-ey postie

lol "catfisting"

any sign of fisherpeople on ilx? Only because I just watched the first episode of a series called Catching the Impossible, with Bernard Cribbins. It's like a follow up to the Passion for Angling series, which was marvellous.

If anyone is interested in such delights, it's well worth a watch with some incredible underwater coverage of fish feeding. Only the first three episodes are available currently, with the others due for release later this year I think.

thanks for the tip!

springtime triggers my fishing urges. planning a long weekend in the catskills this may.

I grew up going for bass, pike and such in the inland lakes of northern Michigan. These days, if I do so, I specifically target the elusive muskellunge, but I've yet to catch one.

My girlfriend is currently applying to various schools, one of which is in Puerto Rico. If she ends up going with that, I will be moving there with her, and plan on investing in a sea kayak set-up rigged for tarpon and marlin fishing. To me, this seems like the ideal fishing situation: intimate and vigorous battles with sea creatures which are approximately your size and weight, and which can pull right back at you as you pull at them. At the end of the day, you simply remove the hook and go your separate ways.

I forgot about CtI (with Martin Bowler yes?) - must go look for it now - on Shed?

I really miss my fishing, haven't gone since Aidan was born, as me not driving kind of hinders things. There is a lake in Crystal palace park that is reserved for fishing though, I'm trying to research how to join the club there but they seem a little internet shy.

you mean discovey Shed?, don't think so because my friend who watches Shed a lot had never heard of it.

Yeah, this is Cribbins and Bowler. I torrented it, but i've ordered the dvd online anyway.

http://www.catchingtheimpossible.info/catching-the-impossible-films.html

as with Passion it's all more about the nature surrounding the fishing activity. As opposed to other shows that thrive to deliver a thumping rock riff whenever there's a 'fish on'

http://www.catchingtheimpossible.info/02-pike-film-fish.gif

Ah - yeah I just checked, they couldn't get a tv station to take it, yet Robson fucking Green gets his piece of crap on the telly.

Will get torrenting later.

Where do you fish?

Mostly rivers in the north, Ribble, Dane, Alyn, and if time is short the local Mersey or Bollin. fish for chub or grayling mostly, although the bollin is swarming with large brown trout. caught my first barbel last year, that was something - like a pitbull with fins.

Nice, the in-laws are up in Lancashire not far from the Ribble, there's a bit outside Preston which looks remarkably fishy (I think it's the Bonsai section).

I was brought up on club matches on the Trent and Derwent, haven't fished a river since, much to my regret.

The next 3 films of Catching The Impossible, ( sections 4,5,6), have been announced to be available at the start of August this year.

probably going fishing tomorrow, most of the snow in the mountains has melted and the waters should be down. lookin' to hook some brookies and maybe a couple nice browns

good luck! but what mountains do you speak of that have brookies and snow in July? the Rockies? Chile?

thanks! i'm talking about the wasatch mountain range, about 20 min southeast of salt lake. big cottonwood canyon, specifically - same canyon that the brighton & solitude ski resorts are in. on good days and in the right spots, you can get a hit on just about every cast

ooh very nice. i always thought the wasatch looked on maps like a rebellious mountain range, wanting to go west-east rather than north-south.

any cutthroats or rainbows around there?

yeah, there are rainbows and cutthroats too. cutthroats are the only trout that are native to utah, everything else is planted. i went today and caught 5 or 6 brookies and a little brown trout - the fish were real picky about feeding off the top, probably due to the full moon. lots of looking, not much striking. water was still a little fast, but it was a beautiful day to be up in the mountains.

where do you like to fish at? fly/spin?

Locals goin crazy atm cos the worlds second-largest supertrawler is fishing just off the island

Worlds largest supertrawler- built by a fella from the island, fishes off mauritius iirc

Pointed it out, now im a bollix. Ah well, i tried

Point of order, dmac. Supertrawlers do not "fish", they "harvest". Now, if we can just get them to sow what they reap, then the oceans would be in somewhat less trouble.

Granted, granted

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/super-trawler-skipper-pleads-not-guilty-to-fishing-offences-1.2153199

I'm shocked, shocked! etc etc etc

http://www.spoonfedcred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/lillisaslurry.jpg

Ok, so, I know *nothing* about fishing. I am living in a diff place abroad for some months, looking out over a bay. Every night I see other people on the other side of the bay working their flash lights. First night I assumed they must be cocaine smugglers. Either cocaine or cod. Obviously right? But then I started to notice these bright white flashlights every single night. Which seems a bit tricky for shady business. And there are fishing rods as well. Do the flashlights have any use in fishing at night? Do they try and "guide" the fish to the bait? Do they just point them at the water so they can have a peek at if there are any fish? What gives?

You'll need a light to see what you're doing. I used to beach fish a lot at night, a head-torch was better than a hand held light.

That... makes perfect sense. (seeing the lights at it again as we speak)

I've decided to add a strong interest in bass fishing to my facebook persona just to see if I start getting a lot of bass fishing product ads all over the internet. I'm really enjoying the world of bass fishing memes so far.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29512361_2041268629486936_7879116851019900775_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=4c5d4958e84b9ce94a67f5b0faf543af&oe=5B43A654

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28577349_2031098520503947_2214964768035762229_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=7dc68691c08dae4bc896c9e649c4836b&oe=5B74BDBC

are there hipsters fishing these days? seems like in cities you'd just dredge up shoes or bikes but maybe hipsters go out of cities to do it?

you get young ppl fishing in the canal round here but you wouldn't call them hipsters

across the street from my house is a huge river valley reservation that is apparently "one of the top steelhead trout fishing rivers in the world" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_River_(Ohio) and i see dudes fishing there all the time, with waders and gear and everything. it seems like it would be a fun thing to learn how to do. as a kid i fished there with my dad a little bit but nothing serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_River_(Ohio)

btw lol at those fishing memes obviously repurposed too

I don't think the people posting in the bass fishing memes groups are hipsters.

no I didn't think the bass fishers were hipsters. I have an fb friend from hs who posts exclusively about fishing but he's never been a hipster, rather more a good ole boy type. I went fishing periodically as a kid (living in fla) & was wondering if kids outside of the country still go fishing. it's pretty boring but yeah you're outside doing it so it has its charm. was thinking that while I hear about like hipster charcuterie & the like, I don't hear about hipster fishing.

fishing definitely still a good ole boy kind of thing

was wondering if kids outside of the country still go fishing

when i lived in boston we were pretty close to jamaica pond, right in the city. lots of fathers/sons, mostly black, would go there to fish

nice. in my city I see some people fishing & reading a bit you can get perch and trout like right in the middle of the city. & pike too! weird.

oh & here in cleveland we have a lot of urban fishers on the lake erie shore in addition to the rocky river

but yea it's not the hipsters who are fishing

right, on the canal here I've just seen squatters fishing next to their tents. last summer they authorized swimming in the canal so I guess it's not that toxic. & by the 2024 olympics they're hoping to have some swimming events in the seine. though swimming & river fishing don't go together very well.

scandal of da year

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/weights-fish-cheating-scandal-goes-viral-tiktok-rcna50568