Fishing Thread.

[Fife]

LOL, ok

Learn your yankee fishing lessons, everybody.

[nmoore63]

It is fun to get high up in a seat like that if your are going to fish in the shallows.

Can spot a bedded bass and go get him.

[Speaker to Animals]

Idea: somebody make a YT channel that is dedicated to fishing with the goal of becoming economically viable. That is, if you come up with a price per protein (for instance, use Wallyworld's chicken breast prices at about 1.99 per lbs), then how do you go about fishing such that your costs in a year match the costs of just going to Wallyworld and buying the giant pack of chicken breasts for about 12.00?

Factor in transportation costs, but maybe not time.

How can you not factor in time? But if you know what you're doing the hardware cost is negligible, you can get pretty outfitted at Walmart for under $100. For me, using market cost for top shelf, super fresh, wild caught fish as my benchmark it's not hard to even justify my kayak related costs. You can't fairly compare super fresh fish to factory chicken unless you're in survival mode.

California & Jedi: Get a kayak. You're next to an amazing fishery on that coast pretty much no matter where you are. There's tons of bottom fish. Dunno where you are Cali, but here's a dude fishing yellowtail off malibu. I've seen vids of dudes pulling in thresher sharks!

I know I could do it economically if I lived on the Florida coast. I am not so sure about mountain streams and rivers.

We even have rivers and creeks stocked every year where I live, but fresh water fish is difficult to catch compared to salt water. I really wonder if it is not possible to beat $2.00 per lbs of meat prices by fishing here.

A fishing kayak is bare minimum going to cost somebody about 200-300 dollars, used. One 200 dollar kayak costs about the same as 50 days worth of chicken breast if you eat about two large breasts per day.

So add in about 100 for bare bones kit, factor in gas, and you are already behind the Wallyworld strategy by about 90 days worth of chicken meat.

I do not think making this actually more economical is as trivial as you imagine. If it is possible at all, then it is likely on the coast.

[Fife]

New tat idea:

[Speaker to Animals]

Leg day is not optional, guys. It looks like a subtle kick would snap that flimsy ruler in half.

[Fife]

Well, that's just rude.

Do you spend the whole time you are on the lake critiquing your buddies' bodies?

:goteam: :drunk:

[Speaker to Animals]

Well, that's just rude.

Do you spend the whole time you are on the lake critiquing your buddies' bodies?

:goteam: :drunk:

Yes.

How else do I go fishing without having to kill myself out of boredom?

[The Conservative]

I have two fishing stories I tell, both are from birthdays with my Papa, he would take me out fishing for my Birthday or on the weekend of, and we would make a day event of it.

First one was I was going on one of these large fishing boats I was lucky if I was 12 years old, hated them due to everyone being crowded, but it is what it was, I was young and we were there just for the fish. It was pretty much a dead day out there, very little fish were coming out of the ocean, the captain seemed to be missing every spot he could think of... we had a few good runs but nothing worth mentioning.

All of the sudden something hit my line and I waited, it took the bait and I did the customary yank. I was reeling it up and then it felt like nothing, so I let the bait go back down. Well it was about time to pull up for the spot we were in, so I reeled in the line, and it started to get heavy as I was brining it closer to the surface. Then it started fight, it wasn't a long fight, but it was a fight, probably about a minute or two.

Then it came out of the water, it was a Haddock.

My Papa put us in a pool for the boat without telling me, so at the end of the trip a guy who was boasting about having the biggest fish came out and showed it, it was a large eel. It weight at 9.6 lbs.

My Papa brought my fish up because it was still alive and kicking, and well, I couldn't handle it being so wiggly. They weighed it at 10.3 ounces. My Papa got $75 and two free fishing tickets for next time.




The 2nd was for my 21st Birthday, my Papa got a private boat (him and me on it only) and we went fishing near Martha's Vineyard. It was Striper season, so that is what we were going for. We brought soda, some Guinness, and some sandwiches.

We spent about 3 hours out with no hits, then we hit this shallow area near the shore, and then all of the sudden my rod went down, it wasn't a gentle hit, the fish nearly took it out of my hands. I wasn't expecting it so I never had a chance to set the line.

We went back over the same spot and the fish struck again, this time I was ready, but this time it hit harder, it actually took my rod into the water, the only thing not wet on it were my hands. And they were behind the reel. So the reel forward were in the ocean, I yanked and the hook set, amazingly.

It fought me for about 10 minutes, because we were on a small boat I had to make sure it didn't try to snap the line under the boat or near the engine. It was a great fight, and when it came up it was a monster of a fish. Back then the rule was anything under 33" had to be thrown back, this thing made it by 3 inches and change, it was also around 32 lbs. We got about 10 lbs of meat out of the fish... and boy was it worth it.

[C-Mag]

It is fun to get high up in a seat like that if your are going to fish in the shallows.

Can spot a bedded bass and go get him.

I call that Sniper Fishing. Fun as hell

[brewster]

New tat idea:

He'd be in trouble fishing for 28" stripers.