Fishing

[Craptastic]

Since I'm new here and don't know anyones other hobbies except for lifting your drinking hand to your mouth, I'm wondering if anyone likes to fish. Lots of rivers and lakes here, with all 5 species of salmon and amazing trout and dolly varden opportunities. Mainly we use fishing for an excuse to drink - nothing like being outside by a lake or river on a hot day with a cold drink watching the fish jump!

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[Two Hearted]

Lightweight.


I'll have a heavy pour of the cheapest rum you have, and add a splash of coke please.
Welcome.

[Craptastic]

Thanks two-hearted. I have to be a lightweight when fishing. A few times I've been just too wasted on the water and you know what they say " booze and water don't mix" and those nasty log jams on some of these rivers can be widowmakers! I've fallen off two docks and a bridge already.

Also trying to work a canoe, pontoon boat or jetboat while shittered can be a bad outcome. So I try to stick to beers while under power on the water.

Sending a heavy shot of rum your way.

[Craptastic]

I've noticed that drinking and fishing do have something in common though. The Purists. And Elitists.

The fishing purist/elitist believes that only fly fishing is the one way to catch fish and looks down on gear fishers. Thinks that using any type of bait causes higher mortality even in a catch and release fishery. And even the use of an indicator on a flyline is blasphemous. And will go so far as to say that artificial materials on a hook is not considered fly fishing. So basically its all "cast upstream with a dry fly" for that crowd. And the worst of it is their mentality that bait/gear fishers are uneducated, knuckledraging criminals who are responsible for the illegal introduction of bass, perch and other fish that are not native to some lakes and rivers.

And don't get me started on the Steelhead fishery, especially on the Thompson River in the Interior of BC. Our fisheries department, in all its wisdom, just opened up that river even though the Test fishery only counted 800 steelhead back in October. Flyfishers are asking the province have a bait ban on that river and its a hot topic on all the fishing forums.

I've heard that there are certain regulations now in the states that you cannot actually LIFT certain species of fish out of the water now - even for the camera pose. BUT you can still shoot sharks in many areas. How fucked up is that! Like those Kingfisher tournaments in Florida. Every fish in the ocean has its place man, and I can't understand that mentality.

The Drinking Purist - well I'm sure you can see the similarities.

On my third beer, its 9:12am and headed down to the dock to see if any sea-run cutthroat trout are cruising around. I don't think I've ever fished for them in December actually! Anything to take my mind off my bar burning down this morning. Christ.

[drunkensooner]

There's not much sexier in the world than a woman who likes drinking beer and fishing.

Noodling. Now that's pure. Just your hands and a big damn catfish. Guess you're too far north for that.

Welcome, take one of those beers you have, thanks.

[Craptastic]

Noodling - now THERE is a hands on sport eh! Would love to try it one day. I've stuck my hand in some wierd places but not completely in a fishes mouth! And those buggers can get pretty large!

One thing I am dying to do is go into a Shark Cage in South Africa - just the feeling of having those little beady eyes staring at you while blood and fishparts are swirling around in the water.....better than chugging bottle of tequilla first thing in the morning! No wait...what am I saying. Almost better......

Passing you a beer, drunkensooner. Hope you don't mind Miller Genuine Draft in a glass bottle. That shit tastes pretty good, even when its warm! Ok, walking out the door to see come cutties.

[fizzmaster]

Cheers craptastic from a lifelong drunkard and fisherman! I was a commercial fisherman for about 4 years on my native Cape Cod, gave up the pro-fishing for city life. I'll have some fried white perch and a shot of Four Roses, thanks!

[JohnnyT]

craptastic and two hearted. long lost sisters?

[ivan]

I had the exact same thought, JT.

[ThirstyDrunk]

I thought that as well.

and now we got TWO hot drunken fishing chicks on the board!?! I'm all for this. If this babe is as cool as 2Hearted I'm putting a hook in my mouth and moving farther North

[ivan]

If this babe is as cool as 2Hearted I'm putting a hook in my mouth and moving farther North

Sorry to break it to you, but she said she's married.

[Judge]

I do believe we a few months away from the Ice Fishing Reports. A few here will usually chime in with tales of small sheds and frozen lakes...sometimes even with a picture or two to prove their not just telling "fish stories".

Welcome, I've got a cold, hot Sailor Jerry and TraderVic's batter mix for me.

[Chimneyfish]

You won't have a cold for long then. Hot buttered rum does the trick.

[peetie44]

and now we got TWO hot drunken fishing chicks on the board!?! I'm all for this. If this babe is as cool as 2Hearted I'm putting a hook in my mouth and moving farther North

Well, as long as they don't ask us to bait their hooks for them or bring girly drinks into the boat and...OUCH!!

Hey...that hurt!!?!

(;^)

[Mayhem]

Welcome aboard, new gal. Post drunk, post often, post drunk often. Rock & Rye please, as I'm a bit under the weather, with a Knob Creek back.