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Orange Blooded [2818]
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Do you prefer fishing alone or with a friend?
Apr 21, 2022, 11:11 PM
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And why?
I’ve never minded a friend, if I want to feel solitude I can always walk a ways downstream and let the water drown out the rest of my reality. Anyways, the weather is perfect and I should go fishing more.
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All-TigerNet [12591]
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Re: Do you prefer fishing alone or with a friend?
Apr 22, 2022, 7:11 AM
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In a stream, alone. In a boat, with someone. Don’t ask me why? Fishing is oftentimes just an excuse for a couple of dudes to spend some time together and say very little.
You can get away with asking a friend to go fishing. Not so much, to go sit near you for hours and say not much of anything.
Landing at the ABQ Sunport in a few hours. Don Choche for lunch and then S to the Gila.
Thanks for the weather report. Windy today though.
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Orange Blooded [2818]
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Re: Do you prefer fishing alone or with a friend?
Apr 22, 2022, 9:35 AM
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Have a nice time and safe travels. I hope to get some smallmouth fishing in on the main stem Gila next month.
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CU Medallion [60036]
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Fishing is like golfing
Apr 22, 2022, 7:17 AM
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I would rather watch paint dry than do either
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All-In [26692]
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That’s nice.***
Apr 22, 2022, 3:21 PM
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Oculus Spirit [93659]
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For one who doesn't know how to catch fish...
Apr 23, 2022, 6:25 AM
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watching paint dry is just as productive. However, you should try golf. God invented it for people who can't catch fish after their paint is dry and their grass has grown.
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Oculus Spirit [85301]
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I was loading the boat on the trailer when you posted this
Apr 22, 2022, 7:40 AM
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Took a friend last night on Hartwell. It's best to not go alone on the boat, but I do quite a bit anyways. Also, I enjoy putting people on the fish. He caught a 5.3 largemouth and a 4 lb largemouth. I caught some smaller bass and a 10 lb striper.
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All-In [36450]
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Nice! I’m headed to the lakehouse tomorrow
Apr 22, 2022, 9:47 AM
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And for the OP I prefer one other person bc safer and helpful. Also someone who knows what they are doing, my Dad is my best fishing buddy.
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Orange Blooded [2999]
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I'm staying on a shallow cove for the next month or so
Apr 22, 2022, 11:48 AM
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and have struggled to catch anything other than a couple bream off the dock. What kind of lures are you throwing at these bass that apparently exist?
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Oculus Spirit [85301]
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Yesterday we caught fish on
Apr 22, 2022, 1:19 PM
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1) 3.75 Rage swimmer on 3/16 swimjig head
2) 1/15 shroomz jig head and 2.75 TRD in Canada Craw
3) Zoom super fluke
4) Yum Dinger, 5 inch, 2/0 neko hook
My recommendation for someone just trying to catch is a bass is #2, throw on a spinning reel with 8 lb line. Most bites occur on the fall.
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Heisman Winner [135569]
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I like fishing with a bunch of friends.
Apr 22, 2022, 8:13 AM
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And a live heavy metal band. And copious amounts of drugs and alcohol. And surrounded by a bevy of scantily clad women that are hoping to get backstage and meet the band but will end up going home with a simple fisherman when they get turned away at the stage door.
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All-In [47750]
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When I fish alone, I prefer to be by myself.
Apr 22, 2022, 9:37 AM
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$1 to George Thorogood.
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Alone. No one to "borrow" my jitterbug or brokeback minnow,
Apr 22, 2022, 9:49 AM
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no one talking, hocking up loogies, etc.
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Re: Do you prefer fishing alone or with a friend?
Apr 22, 2022, 11:33 AM
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I fish alone a lot because I like coming and going on my schedule. There are only a handful of people I enjoy fishing with. I'm sure I would enjoy fishing with some of youse guise. I take my fishing semi-seriously although I often release my catch. I'll fish for practically any kind of fish but trout fishing is probably tops with inshore a close second. I probably have company on the boat when possible but doesn't really matter to me.
My favorite fishing partner is my son. He goes just as hard as I do. Much harder really. His fishing and hunting accomplishments have far exceeded mine and he is only 22. He called me a big turkey last Saturday. That was a great hunt.
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Apr 22, 2022, 11:34 AM
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I've given that a lot of thought and...
Apr 22, 2022, 12:00 PM
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now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn’t. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
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Re: I've given that a lot of thought and...
Apr 22, 2022, 12:04 PM
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Sometimes someone would speak in a boat. But most of the boats were silent except for the dip of the oars. They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean. Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to the surface at night where all the wandering fish fed on them.
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Re: I've given that a lot of thought and...
Apr 22, 2022, 12:08 PM
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The fog's just lifting. Throw off your bow line, throw off your stern. You head out to South channel, past Rocky Neck, Ten pound island. Past Niles Pond where I skated as a kid. Blow your airhorn and throw a wave to the lighthouse keeper's kid on Thatcher Island. Then the birds show up, black backs, herring gulls, big dump ducks and green legged coots. The sun hit ya , head North, open up to 12, steamin' now. The guys are busy, you're in charge. Ya know what? You're a ####### swordboat captain! Is there any thing better in the world?
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Re: I've given that a lot of thought and...
Apr 22, 2022, 12:27 PM
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Felt a pang late one afternoon I was fishin' off Muir beach With Larry LaLonde I grabbed a tuna salad sandwich And I started to chew Pretty soon Ler's yellin Fish on Fish on I was just a little pup And it was derby day It was dad and me and Darrell Out in San Pablo Bay Taco-flavored Doritos And my orange life vest Dad caught a hundred pound sturgeon On twenty-pound test Now, he fought that fish for 'bout an hour and a half Darrell'd say, "Jump, you sons a #####!" And he grabbed for the gaff When we got him in the boat He measured six feet long I was so danged impressed I had to write this song called Fish on Fish on Fish on Fish on It was a bright sunny day It was me and Todd Huth Fishin' shark and stingray Out of Bolinas Lagoon Well, hey, hey, hey I'll be screwed blued and tattooed Looks like I got me one of them Fish on Fish on
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Re: I've given that a lot of thought and...
Apr 22, 2022, 12:31 PM
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Well I love her And I love to fish I spend all day out on this lake And hell is all I catch Today she met me at the door Said I would have to choose If I hit that fishin' hole today She'd be packin' all her things And she'd be gone by noon Well I'm gonna miss her When I get home But right now I'm on this lake shore And I'm sittin' in the sun I'm sure it'll hit me When I walk through that door tonight That I'm gonna miss her Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite Now there's a chance that if I hurry I could beg her to stay But that water's right And the weather's perfect No tellin' what I might catch today So I'm gonna miss her When I get home But right now I'm on this lake shore And I'm sittin' in the sun I'm sure it'll hit me When I walk through that door tonight Yeah, I'm gonna miss her Oh, lookie there, another bite Yeah, I'm gonna miss her Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite
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This is become ...
Apr 23, 2022, 6:35 AM
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my favorite threadjacks. You, sir, are a masterjacker.
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Oculus Spirit [79195]
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That depends. Are we really talking about fishing, or f
Apr 22, 2022, 12:11 PM
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ucking?
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I just can't shake the feeling that this post is a
Apr 22, 2022, 2:27 PM
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sectual metaphor and I am scared to answer it.
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Re: I just can't shake the feeling that this post is a
Apr 22, 2022, 2:36 PM
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Re: I just can't shake the feeling that this post is a
Apr 22, 2022, 2:47 PM
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I’m adding those that “fish with a buddy” to my spreadsheet
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Lot o points [163012]
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Unpopular opinion
Apr 22, 2022, 3:18 PM
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fishing sucks.
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Oculus Spirit [93659]
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Fishing sucks...
Apr 23, 2022, 6:51 AM
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until you learn to catch fish. I don't think calling it catching is practical; that is prone to be misconstrued.
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Lot o points [163012]
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The only time I remember liking it was fishing with my
Apr 23, 2022, 6:54 AM
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grandfather on a lake in upstate NY. Row boat out and look down and you can see the fish and fish beds, the water was so clear.
But fishing is either boring or work to me.
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Re: The only time I remember liking it was fishing with my
Apr 23, 2022, 7:22 AM
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I understand but work is has always been one of my pleasures. Yep, I'm some kind of a pervert but when I didn't like doing a job I'd quit. I'm also a quitter.
I've seen some miserable days on the lake (if there's any such thing as a miserable day on the lake).
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Oculus Spirit [93659]
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There are four people in my life I loved fishing with.
Apr 23, 2022, 6:15 AM
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My father, my friend and teacher Daniel who taught me how to really catch fish on the worst day in the worst weather situation, and my two sons.
My father, family and me would sit pretty much in one spot on a river or lake using a cane pole or some cheap Zebco rod and reel. Sometimes we'd catch enough fish for a meal. Dad was a long distance truck driver so those days were precious to me.
I met Daniel through his brother who worked for me. Steve and I talked a bit about fishing and since I hadn't been in SC upstate much I had asked about the lakes near to Easley where we lived. He said he would get Daniel to take me and show me the area.
Over the next four or five years Daniel and I fished in at least 20 small to medium size ponds, some private and some open to the public. We also fished a few rivers and trout fished the streams. Rain didn't bother him much but one lightening strike would send him toward the bank. I won't list the many fishing stories I have from those years fishing with Daniel but there are enough to fill a good book. The subject of each would be somewhat different but as a results of those days I was able to teach my two sons to catch fish. Not just fish, I mean trophies to most people.
During the last 35 yrs of fishing with my boys we all caught great LM bass, one son caught a 2+ lb crappie and my baby boy caught a fish we couldn't find a scale to weigh. That was 27 yrs ago, it was in the 10+lb range and landed by an 8 y/o with a small spinning reel and 6lb test line by himself. A 10 lb bass is a trophy in SC no matter who you are. It cost me over $125 bucks even back then to mount that fish.
I remember trying to get the best photo of the fish by having him hold it by the mouth hanging in front of his body so it would show the width and length of the fish compared to him. He held it a bit lower than his chin and the tail reached down near to his knees.
As much as I loved fishing with them there was a time in my life when I fished alone. I was retired, both sons had jobs and I lived near to Williamston Watershed. I would load my 12 alum boat in the back of the truck, prepare all the gear and with private access to the watershed I would be on the water and watch the Sun come up.
On those mornings I though a lot. I thought about life, I thought about my earthly father, I though a lot about my Heavenly Father and I though a lot about all those years of fishing with daddy, Daniel and my sons. I was a good day to be on the lake before speaking to another human and most time I never saw another human.
I rose this morning about an hour ago. I was upset for some thumpers who were cruising this neighborhood and Bless God now that I've had a reason to calm down and not try out my 45cal 1911 on a moving target. Thanks for the topic. It's just what I needed.
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