The Occasional Fishing Thread [Bandersnatch]

Welcome Piscators and Piscatrixes to the current installment of the occasional fishing thread. As usual, my musings, memories, biases, rants, brags, and outright lies are just a jumping off point. All things fishy are on topic.

Now, you’ve been a good Fish Horde and we’ve had fun these occasional Saturday nights so I have no wish to punish you. (Also, there are no pictures of Yoko fishing). But I couldn’t resist this one. I showed it to an ‘Ette, sort of a distaff Tyrion Lannister, and she said “I know nothing about fly fishing and I can tell that this is a complete mess”.

I do know something of fly fishing and I can assure you that that cast is about to collapse into a puddle of despair and effeminate preening. It is worse, sport for sport, than going 1 for 20 at hoops.

Today’s mooted topic is The One That Got Away. One that got away stories are great because they are at once self-aggrandizing and self-deprecatory. The fish can be as big as you want because it got away. Your achievement in hooking it was epic, the fault of losing it lies with the stars. Unless you just screwed up, as I did.

I was fly fishing in the surf at Nauset Beach on a very early morning. We fly guys resented the claims by surf casters that we just caught a lot of small fish, but that was largely true. I had not yet caught a keeper (then 36” that year when I hooked into a fish I was entirely unprepared for. She was big. She was a she because striped bass longer than 28” are female. As I saw her near the surface she was longer from dorsal to tail than anything I’d caught. Amazingly I kept her on and got her in close and ready to land but I didn’t know how. (History gives too soon into weak hands … what’s thought can be dispensed with).

Well she’s coming in a little with each wave and being pulled out a little as each recedes. I decide to just horse her in and clamp down on the reel. Pop! The line parts. The wave receeds. The fish is lying on the sand at the lip of the beach. I tumble forward trying to tackle it, to claim the prize, but it’s twenty long feet and the next wave is coming in.

Have you lost any good fish?

Now, on to the Fish Brag pics submitted by Morons…

Shaef from Gettysburg sent in these:

My first guided trip in Maine, obviously successful. We landed three native brook trout at Little Boy Falls and released all of them.

From western Mass we hear from Man of Few Words:

Me with a fish

Herb from Kennebunk sent us this:

This is from November ’88, celebrating in Florida. Catching fish is secondary. I like being in the surf, or wading in the stream, or scaring the grandkids driving the Fountain boat 100 miles an hour.

Cookie Monster sends this:

I found this in an album. Those look like Adirondack Guide Boats, so I guess it was from one of my upstate trips.

This came over the transom from Archie Bunker’s Man:

Lurker Spetsnaz caught a hefty pike:

De-lurking. Trust me I’ve been reading everything for years. It took me a while to find a picture with my shirt on.

Finally we hear from Dutch:

I don’t really fish but I do embrace the vigorous outdoor lifestyle. Also, you don’t have a horse thread so I thought this might fit here.
By the way, who is that absolute pantywaist at the top of this thread?

And with that we move on to the raison d’etre of this here HQ, the comments section. Brickbats, praise, and fish brag pics are welcome at aoshqfish at sign gmail thing.

Posted by: CBD at 07:37 PM

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1

Man's Favorite Sport?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058324

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 22, 2019 07:39 PM (aKsyK)

2 does that guy ride a bike and shoot a shotgun, too?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 22, 2019 07:41 PM (sy5kK)

3 That first picture of Bander has him casting like a Mary.

Posted by: tomorrow's trends today at June 22, 2019 07:42 PM (72spU)

4 I do know something of fly fishing and I can assure you that that cast is about to collapse into a puddle of despair and effeminate preening.

Can't collapse if it's caught in a tree!

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 07:42 PM (CE5C/)

5 Jimmy Carter was or is quite the fly fisherman. He even wrote a book on the subject which I read years ago.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 07:43 PM (XGabL)

6 Eisenhower, Coolidge and Hoover are pictured.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 22, 2019 07:43 PM (LxTcq)

7 What have I done? I read the post, and then find no comments. I'm a failure.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at June 22, 2019 07:44 PM (w7U7L)

8 4 I do know something of fly fishing and I can assure you that that cast is about to collapse into a puddle of despair and effeminate preening.
Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 07:42 PM (CE5C/)

You mean that's a photo of David French?

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at June 22, 2019 07:44 PM (9ioAf)

9 Ah, Pres Coolidge fishing in a suit (with vest!!) and wet shoes.
What a guy!

Posted by: norman at June 22, 2019 07:44 PM (B8q6w)

10 "That guy" also pumps iron.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at June 22, 2019 07:45 PM (w7U7L)

11 Only fly fishing barky does is for trouser trout.

Posted by: freaked at June 22, 2019 07:45 PM (UdKB7)

12 If you look at that fishing line that Barry is casting, it looks surprisingly like his 8 years of governance.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 22, 2019 07:45 PM (sy5kK)

13 "Today's mooted topic is The One That Got Away."

The Tom Waits song?

Honestly, the only things I've ever had that got away while fishing were bait, lures, and other assorted tackle. Mostly in water, but sometimes in trees overhead. Once I almost lost the whole spool off a spincast reel, but it wouldn't fit through the guides.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 07:45 PM (t+qrx)

14 Jimmy Carter was or is quite the fly fisherman.

I only found pictures of Jimmeh with a dip net or I would have included him.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 07:46 PM (fuK7c)

15 Well, I screwed up big time in the end of the last thread.

Cast the net off of the right side. Dumb me for not remembering it wasn't the left.

Still the best fishing story ever told.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 07:46 PM (fyf7W)

16 Jimmy Carter was or is quite the fly fisherman. He even wrote a book on the subject which I read years ago.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 07:43 PM (XGabL)

Killer Rabbit: Next time Jimmy doesn't get away so easy!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 07:46 PM (K7Jo7)

17 I only found pictures of Jimmeh with a dip net or I would have included him.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Maybe he was using rabbit for bait?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 07:47 PM (XGabL)

18 I thought the photo of Hoover was J. Edgar

Posted by: G marks the spot at June 22, 2019 07:48 PM (j5RRD)

19 Somebody did Vlad a big favor handing him a once in a lifetime pike.

Funniest one that got away story. Small size pike 2-3#'s kept it to smoke.
I pull it out of the live well and start to take it ashore. It wiggles. Pike are the slipperiest thing you'll ever touch. So I'm standing on the bow of the boat squeezing this pike (Not an euphemism) it shoots out of my hands, bounces on the gunwhale, I grab, miss, bloop right into the lake the fish goes. Biggest laugh out of Dad of many fishing trips. He'd bring it up occasionally to laugh again.

Posted by: DaveA at June 22, 2019 07:48 PM (FhXTo)

20 I might go out for croaker tonight. It is a perfect night for it.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 07:48 PM (XGabL)

21 Fishing off the dock on Kentucky Lake. Cane pole. Bobber. Hooked a snapping turtle. About 10 pounds. Thought I caught a dinosaur. Scared the crap out a me.

Posted by: I was 8 years old. at June 22, 2019 07:48 PM (bR4ql)

22 I do know something of fly fishing and I can
assure you that that cast is about to collapse into a puddle of despair
and effeminate preening.

Can't collapse if it's caught in a tree!

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 07:42 PM

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I caught a bird once fly fishing. My cousin and I were out in a canoe and I was fly casting and on a back cast a bird grabbed the spider fly that I was using and took off with it. Hilarity ensued and the bird finally let go of the spider after a few minutes of me trying to reel it in.

My cousin was relieved because he said he didn't know how we were going to put a bird on the fish stringer.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 22, 2019 07:48 PM (JUOKG)

23 I didn't think anything could ruin fishing. Now I know one thing that does.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 22, 2019 07:49 PM (r+sAi)

24 Nice set of pictures.

Posted by: tbodie at June 22, 2019 07:49 PM (kNgPX)

25 Now, on to the Fish Brag pics submitted by Morons...

This was a clever post. I especially liked "Me with a fish".

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 07:49 PM (OiC69)

26 Sheeesh! If I want to see piss poor casting like in the top photo I can do it myself very nicely. And people wouldn't have to look at TFG.

Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 07:49 PM (bmdz3)

27 My grandfather had a Chris Craft on Lake Erie until the lake died and found a little place in Hayward, WI where we started going. He caught a walleye so big they swore it would break the state record and he clipped it onto those types of stringers that has clips against everyone's advice to go in. Of course it broke the clip and lost it and it stayed with him until he died. Taught me how to clean fish and peel an apple with a pen knife. Grandfathers are awesome.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 07:50 PM (K22Va)

28 Milburn Drysdale in Griffith Park?

Posted by: Burger Chef at June 22, 2019 07:51 PM (RuIsu)

29 Crazy story about losing tackle. I was fishing with a Thomas Buoyant. I lost one while reeling it in and tied another one on. I cast it out about the same general area I had been and while I was bringing it in I noticed it felt like it was dragging on the bottom a bit, and when I got it all the way I saw the lure I had just lost hooked to the one I had just put on. What are the odds?

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 07:52 PM (xPl2J)

30 A 20lb catfish is garbage.

20 lbs of 1 lb catfish is delectable.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 07:53 PM (fyf7W)

31 I have a skillet full of crabcakes frying up as we speak. Not a fin fish, but still......

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 07:53 PM (XGabL)

32 Lure fishing on a remote stretch of the north fork of the Yuba river west of Sierra City. I was downstream fiddling around with a spear gun spearing carp when my buddy ran up and said he had caught a 10" rainbow ( a deep granite pool just below a small natural granite weir) and was just lifting it out of the water when a huge German Brown leapt up and snatched it whole - snapping the line.

True. Story.

Posted by: 13times at June 22, 2019 07:54 PM (K3B2k)

33 Did Obama ever actually fly fish? I find that hard to believe It looks like they put fishing gear on him and told him to stand in a river and smile for a photo op.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2019 07:54 PM (ivkO2)

34 Personally I'm rooting for the fish!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 07:55 PM (AZxMX)

35 I caught a bird once fly fishing.

Caught gulls 2 times in MN that went after floating lures. One we had to real in that was a bitch to get the lure out and one just took off and emptied 300 yards of line as it flew off.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 07:55 PM (K22Va)

36 A 20lb catfish is garbage.

20 lbs of 1 lb catfish is delectable.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 07:53 PM (fyf7W)

Catfish is pretty good. "Catfish" is hit-or-miss.
https://stoatnet.org/catfish.jpg

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 07:55 PM (t+qrx)

37 "... I showed it to an ‘Ette, sort of a distaff Tyrion Lannister..."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 07:55 PM (kQs4Y)

38 The ones that got away:
1. A huge large mouth bass when I was using 2 pound line on ultra light gear. I was expecting bluegill not the Kracken. That's what it felt like, anyway. But the fight lasted over five minutes and it was exciting.

2. The biggest one that I lost was a sixty foot oak tree that had snagged my Colorado spinner. The damn tree still sneers at me whenever I go by.

Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 07:56 PM (bmdz3)

39 Barky gave up the stream for the beaches on Pedo Island

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 07:56 PM (fyf7W)

40 Shitty looking loop, but I assume he's a total novice

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2019 07:56 PM (U7k5w)

41 I now know to wear a larger hat when fishing.

Respect.

Posted by: Miklos "Silent Cal" Molnar at June 22, 2019 07:57 PM (QzkSJ)

42 Lure fishing on a remote stretch of the north fork
of the Yuba river west of Sierra City. I was downstream fiddling around
with a spear gun spearing carp when my buddy ran up and said he had
caught a 10" rainbow ( a deep granite pool just below a small natural
granite weir) and was just lifting it out of the water when a huge
German Brown leapt up and snatched it whole - snapping the line.

True. Story.

Posted by: 13times at June 22, 2019 07:54 PM (K3B2k)
Watch this
https://tinyurl.com/y4kqqw49

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 07:57 PM (xPl2J)

43
A 20lb catfish is garbage.

Not what they call Mississippi cats on the Wolf river in WI. I think I'd take it over walleye.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 07:58 PM (K22Va)

44 Not my tale but a one-that-got-away story about my daughter. When my daughter was about 12 I took her out on a day and a half sport fishing boat. She caught several barracudas and hooked a nice yellow tail. Unfortunately, we were at the Coronado Islands where sea lions are a menace. She managed to fight it for about half an hour. When the fish was at the boat a stinking sea lion got a hold of her fish and all she landed was the head. Needless to say, she was bummed.

Posted by: DR.WTF at June 22, 2019 07:58 PM (aS1PU)

45 Did Obama ever actually fly fish?

And what's he afraid of with the slicker and sunglasses? I notice that H.W. is not worried about a little dampness.

Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 07:58 PM (QrTqV)

46 The ones that got away:

2. The biggest one that I lost was a sixty foot oak tree that had snagged my Colorado spinner. The damn tree still sneers at me whenever I go by.
Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 07:56 PM (bmdz3)

If you know where it is, did it truly get away?

Posted by: tbodie at June 22, 2019 07:59 PM (kNgPX)

47 I have a skillet full of crabcakes frying up as we speak. Not a fin fish, but still......

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 07:53 PM (XGabL)

Jinx my boy

Nothing personal but I hate you right now!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 07:59 PM (AZxMX)

48 Funny funny No copy Ronnie, OK OK

Ronnie ride English Nancy ride Western
how come no tapaderos?

Posted by: Sonny Looky at June 22, 2019 07:59 PM (ePWRo)

49 Very fishy, no tapaderos.

Posted by: Sonny Looky at June 22, 2019 07:59 PM (ePWRo)

50 Barky gave up the stream for the beaches on Pedo Island

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 07:56 PM (fyf7W)

Thing is you never know what you will catch on Pedo Island!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:01 PM (AZxMX)

51 Watch this
https://tinyurl.com/y4kqqw49
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 07:57 PM (xPl2J)

O_O

I knew what it was. I was expecting it. It's right there in the title.

That was still amazing.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:01 PM (t+qrx)

52 You just know Barky casts like he throws a baseball.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:01 PM (K22Va)

53 You down south tonight, Hroth?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 08:01 PM (XGabL)

54 Some friends used to go scuba diving/spear fishing for catfish in the big lake here.

It's dark and murky down there, even with underwater headlights.

"Do you know what it's like to realize you're on the other end of a six foot long aluminum spear from something bigger than you?"

I made the catfish stew.

Posted by: Miklos, chef de bouillabaisse de Caroline at June 22, 2019 08:01 PM (QzkSJ)

55 I've never had a fish get away.

Rather, I've failed to secure the aquatic vertebrate.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:02 PM (WEBkv)

56 Did Obama ever actually fly fish? I find that hard to believe It looks like they put fishing gear on him and told him to stand in a river and smile for a photo op.

I found different sources for that photo. One (apparently truthful) said Obama only went fly fishing once in his life, to redeem a campaign promise. That account claimed that he had hooked six trout but landed none. I am not sure I believe that part.

Another said oh of course the world's most powerful man needs to relax so he's an avid fly fisher. That one is bullshit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 08:03 PM (fuK7c)

57 Watch this
https://tinyurl.com/y4kqqw49
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 07:57 PM (xPl2J)

Wow. That was fun.

Posted by: tbodie at June 22, 2019 08:03 PM (kNgPX)

58 I prefer frog gigging. You can see what you hook.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 08:03 PM (fyf7W)

59 Has anybody ever had a stringer of fish come undone and float away? It's never happened to me, but I'm paranoid about it.

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 08:04 PM (xPl2J)

60 Did Obama ever actually fly fish?

And what's he afraid of with the slicker and sunglasses? I notice that H.W. is not worried about a little dampness.
Posted by: t-bird
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Usually after a round of clays.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 22, 2019 08:04 PM (ZMWtN)

61 Can I get me a fishin' license here?

--John F'n Kerry

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 08:05 PM (XGabL)

62 Barky having been the worlds most powerful man still makes me want to vomit.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 08:06 PM (fyf7W)

63 Speaking of fishing, I'm watching the 2010 Moby Dick. William Hurt version.

Posted by: freaked at June 22, 2019 08:06 PM (UdKB7)

64 Did Obama ever actually fly fish? I find that hard to believe It looks like they put fishing gear on him and told him to stand in a river and smile for a photo op.

If he ever actually fished I'll run naked down Broadway.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 22, 2019 08:06 PM (dUJdY)

65 Caught a sting ray. All you have to do is put your foot on the tail. Oh, make sure you have boots on.

Posted by: Sonny Looky at June 22, 2019 08:07 PM (ePWRo)

66 And what's he afraid of with the slicker and sunglasses? I notice that H.W. is not worried about a little dampness.
Posted by: t-bird

He did spend some time in the water.

Posted by: USS Finback at June 22, 2019 08:07 PM (QzkSJ)

67 I caught a bird once fly fishing. My cousin and I were out in a canoe and I was fly casting and on a back cast a bird grabbed the spider fly that I was using and took off with it. Hilarity ensued and the bird finally let go of the spider after a few minutes of me trying to reel it in.

My cousin was relieved because he said he didn't know how we were going to put a bird on the fish stringer.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 22, 2019 07:48 PM (JUOKG)

Well hey, at least your bird survived the encounter.

Posted by: Reggie Jackson at June 22, 2019 08:08 PM (Dmmrf)

68 Pretty sure the shot of Coolidge was taken in the town just above mine, Tyringham , MA

Posted by: REDACTED at June 22, 2019 08:08 PM (DPjeO)

69 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 22, 2019 08:01 PM (XGabL)

Sadly no, had the car in the shop all week. Maybe next week.
I think they're going to do a fried salt fish breakfast down there next Saturday. I grew up on that stuff.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (AZxMX)

70 Posted by: Reggie Jackson at June 22, 2019 08:08 PM (Dmmrf)

That is a nice hash.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (t+qrx)

71 59
Has anybody ever had a stringer of fish come undone and float away? It's never happened to me, but I'm paranoid about it.

We used baskets when I was a kid and lost a couple being stupid. Killer for a kid. Also lost stringers full to weasels that ate them right up to the heads.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (K22Va)

72 Mr. Trump do you fish?
No.
Do you hunt?
No.
What do you do for exercise?
You have to ask?

Posted by: Sonny Looky at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (ePWRo)

73 Pretty sure the shot of Coolidge was taken in the town just above mine, Tyringham , MA
Posted by: REDACTED

Ayup

Posted by: Monosyllabic Cal at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (QzkSJ)

74 Is anyone not a Democrat stupid enough to believe Obama enjoyed fishing of any kind, let alone fly fishing? I think not.

Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (bmdz3)

75 Is that Barry practicing that Olympic girls sport where they twirl the ribbon around in pretty designs while they jump and try to look effeminate?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Media Controls the Whether Machines at June 22, 2019 08:10 PM (Lwfjs)

76 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-catch-of-the-day

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 08:10 PM (kQs4Y)

77 Barky having been the worlds most powerful man still makes me want to vomit.
Posted by: Ben Had

But he wasn't.

If that helps.

Posted by: Modestly optimistic Miklos at June 22, 2019 08:11 PM (QzkSJ)

78 Also, you know Barry has a life jacket on under that top layer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Media Controls the Whether Machines at June 22, 2019 08:11 PM (Lwfjs)

79 Couple years back I was casting shrimp off a friend's boat in brackish water near Fort Myers. I caught a couple fish out of this stream that was draining out of a nearby tidal lake, and then I hooked a log of some sort. I pulled at it, and pried at it, until I thought for sure my line was gonna break.
Then, it slowly started taking line. Not like I had scared it, and it was running away, but like I was annoying it and it was leaving at its own pace.
I saw it ripple the water as it went around the bend, then my line broke and that was it.
It was huge, whatever it was. Much speculation about what could be that big and not be a shark or a manatee in those waters. It definitely wasn't a shark, they go like a bat out of hell when you hook them.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 22, 2019 08:12 PM (KCxuz)

80 74 Is anyone not a Democrat stupid enough to believe Obama enjoyed fishing of any kind, let alone fly fishing? I think not.
Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (bmdz3)
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I think the only manly pursuits Obama engaged in was the pursuit of other men.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:12 PM (WEBkv)

81 Also, you know Barry has a life jacket on under that top layer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Media Controls the Whether Machines at June 22, 2019 08:11 PM (Lwfjs)

... with a whistle safety pinned to it.

Posted by: DR.WTF at June 22, 2019 08:12 PM (aS1PU)

82 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-catch-of-the-day
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 08:10 PM (kQs4Y)

Why does Jimmy Carter look like Tom Petty though.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:13 PM (t+qrx)

83 Also, you know Barry has a life jacket on under that top layer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Media Controls the Whether Machines at June 22, 2019 08:11 PM (Lwfjs)

... with a whistle safety pinned to it.

Posted by: DR.WTF at June 22, 2019 08:12 PM (aS1PU)

And a strobe light!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:13 PM (AZxMX)

84 Has anybody ever had a stringer of fish come undone and float away? It's never happened to me, but I'm paranoid about it.

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 08:04 PM (xPl2J)

I tied a stringer one day around the part of the oar that goes into the hole (I forget the name, work with me here folks).

Well I had to take an oar out to push us away from the weeds along shore, and of course without thinking I picked the wrong oar. About 20 sunfish, bluegill and bass go swimming away like they'd won the lottery. Dammit.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at June 22, 2019 08:13 PM (Dmmrf)

85 Also, you know Barry has a life jacket on under that top layer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Media Controls the Whether Machines at June 22, 2019 08:11 PM (Lwfjs)

Swim floaties.

(NTTAWWT)

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:14 PM (t+qrx)

86 Also lost stringers full to weasels that ate them right up to the heads.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM (K22Va)

When I was a kid I watched a snake swim up to my stringer and bite one of the trout. It went right for the biggest one on their. It was flopping around and went still as soon as the snake bit into its spine. Needless to say, nobody ate that fish. Don't now what kind of snake. It was pretty small. I've been fishing in that area all my life and it's the only one I've ever seen.

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 22, 2019 08:14 PM (xPl2J)

87 76 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-catch-of-the-day
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 08:10 PM (kQs4Y)
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Gee, Barack isn't mentioned. And we all know how camera shy Obama is.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:14 PM (WEBkv)

88 Is anyone not a Democrat stupid enough to believe Obama enjoyed fishing of any kind, let alone fly fishing?

I'm a Democrat (DINO) and I don't believe it. I think the only outdoor pursuit Obama may like is swimming.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2019 08:15 PM (ivkO2)

89 Has anybody ever had a stringer of fish come undone and float away? It's never happened to me, but I'm paranoid about it.

We
used baskets when I was a kid and lost a couple being stupid. Killer
for a kid. Also lost stringers full to weasels that ate them right up to
the heads.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:09 PM

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That happened to me on Adak Alaska. We had a nice stringer of Dolly Varden trout and we were not paying attention. They swam away and the water was 35 degrees, no way we were wading in after them.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 22, 2019 08:16 PM (JUOKG)

90 That's one helluva ampersand of a backcast Bammy's got going.

Guess that's his version of shada castin

Posted by: REDACTED at June 22, 2019 08:16 PM (DPjeO)

91 75 Is that Barry practicing that Olympic girls sport where they twirl the ribbon around in pretty designs while they jump and try to look effeminate?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Media Controls the Whether Machines at June 22, 2019 08:10 PM (Lwfjs)
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I don't think Obama had to practice that which came naturally.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:16 PM (WEBkv)

92 When I was a kid I watched a snake swim up to my stringer and bite one
of the trout. It went right for the biggest one on their. It was
flopping around and went still as soon as the snake bit into its spine.
Needless to say, nobody ate that fish. Don't now what kind of snake. It
was pretty small. I've been fishing in that area all my life and it's
the only one I've ever seen.

I think you have to be raised around snakes, I hate those things.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:17 PM (K22Va)

93 I bet it was hilarious to listen to Barry explain fly fishing to the guide once he'd learned everything after 15 minutes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:18 PM (Lwfjs)

94 the only seafood Barky ever caught were codpieces.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 22, 2019 08:18 PM (ykYG2)

95 74: Montana 2009 was his first, and probably only, lesson.

Posted by: CN at June 22, 2019 08:18 PM (U7k5w)

96 I'm a Democrat (DINO) and I don't believe it. I think the only outdoor pursuit Obama may like is swimming.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2019 08:15 PM (ivkO2)

Synchronized swimming, maybe.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at June 22, 2019 08:19 PM (Dmmrf)

97 Fishing in the Gulf using a stainless steel leader line and a big ass hook with a big chunk of croaker for bait.

Got a hit and the line went limp. Reeled in the swivel.

Posted by: Sonny Looky at June 22, 2019 08:19 PM (ePWRo)

98 Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:18 PM (Lwfjs)

captured the essence of Barry in one sentence, well done!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:20 PM (AZxMX)

99 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-catch-of-the-day

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 08:10 PM (kQs4Y)

Oh that's awesome.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 08:20 PM (fuK7c)

100 btw, you don't want to get intimate with the hagfish.
twitter.com/DanSchwent/status/1136248147368468481

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 22, 2019 08:20 PM (ykYG2)

101 When Biggus Dickus was the VP, we would get to spend every 4th of July on MEDEVAC standby in Jackson Hole, while he floated the Snake River fishing...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 22, 2019 08:20 PM (KCxuz)

102 I once had a Salmon fillet slip off the cedar plank.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2019 08:21 PM (3H9h1)

103 The best caviar is from the Iranian part of the Caspian Sea.

Posted by: Jean-Francois K. at June 22, 2019 08:22 PM (QzkSJ)

104 When Biggus Dickus was the VP, we would get to spend every 4th of July on MEDEVAC standby in Jackson Hole, while he floated the Snake River fishing...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 22, 2019 08:20 PM (KCxuz)

Well at least the view was nice.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at June 22, 2019 08:22 PM (Dmmrf)

105 I love the genuine smile on Ike's face. He is clearly having a wonderful time on the water.

I'm not sure I ever saw Cooledge smile in any photo.

Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 08:23 PM (bmdz3)

106 I'm not sure I ever saw Cooledge smile in any photo.
Posted by: JTB

Coolidge is one word you actually can look up on the Urban Dictionary without distress.

Posted by: Miklos the weekend philologist at June 22, 2019 08:25 PM (QzkSJ)

107 Well at least the view was nice.

It was. The secret service parked us on a hill overlooking the river, so we could be in radio contact. I got a great photo of a whole horses head sticking inside the crew chiefs window, checking us out.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 22, 2019 08:27 PM (KCxuz)

108 Fishing in the Gulf using a stainless steel leader line and a big ass hook with a big chunk of croaker for bait. "

Did that about 50 miles off Galveston. Had a pretty good battle going on, then suddenly line pulled tight, rod bent double, then nothing...

reeled in front half a foot of snapper jaw. We saw the roughly 8 foot hammerhead a few minutes later.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:27 PM (6qErC)

109
Just to make this thread a little less gay because it's a hogfest right now...

Here are girls playing musical instruments between their legs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FenMX_cGDvc

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2019 08:29 PM (kMTAY)

110 I posted it last month so sorry for the repeat, but the biggest one that got away? I had to not keep a tuna that beached itself in front of me. I made it a point to get my line in its mouth if anyone walked up, which they did, but none of the game wardens I called had any idea of how to handle it beyond 'impossible, they aren't caught off the beach" as I'm standing and looking at one.

Learned my lesson, though. Big ol filets go in the cooler and the fish is shoved back in the water to put himself back out to feed other fish.

I say that, but I know I wouldn't do it. I stun fish before cleaning. I've passed on multiple hunting shots because I didn't like where the animal was standing or that there was a branch that could deflect the bullet. There's no way I'd do that to a fish.

I like to say I would, though, because I'm still pissed that I wasn't allowed to keep it without potentially becoming a test case.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:29 PM (Lwfjs)

111 My dad would never have any kind of seafood in the house but he loved the fish we brought home from fishing trips. Nothing like catching a nice mess and heading straight to shore to clean and cook it.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:29 PM (K22Va)

112 That would be the ultimate bummer. Catch a huge marlin, fight it for hours and just as your winning some shark comes by and eats half of it.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 08:29 PM (fyf7W)

113 I witnessed a buddy lose 3/4 of a fish. He was about to land a huge Amber Jack; a lurking Barracuda had other ideas. All my friend managed to pull into the boat was a disembodied head.

Posted by: WVinMN at June 22, 2019 08:30 PM (pV4s0)

114 I like Jefferson a lot, but I think Coolidge is probably my favorite non-founding father president in some weird way.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:31 PM (Lwfjs)

115 Here's a picture of Coolidge smiling:

https://tinyurl.com/y2ceeuhx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2019 08:31 PM (ivkO2)

116 112
That would be the ultimate bummer. Catch a huge marlin, fight it for
hours and just as your winning some shark comes by and eats half of it.

Old Man and the Sea right? My grandfather looked like Spencer Tracy I always thought.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:32 PM (K22Va)

117 Here's a nice picture of Cal and Grace Coolidge smiling. Looks like an early use of a telephone:

https://tinyurl.com/y256yurz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2019 08:35 PM (ivkO2)

118 Old Man gotta be the Old Man and the Fish gotta be the Fish.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 08:35 PM (fyf7W)

119 Now that I think about it I've lost fish on trot lines. Quite a few, honestly. But I've caught a couple of the snapping turtles that are doing all the murdering and made soup out of them, so I guess it evens out in the end.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:36 PM (Lwfjs)

120 My biggest fishes. A 5# brown and a 20in rainbow. Most of my catches were 8 to 12in trout. Best tasting IMO.

Posted by: Ronster at June 22, 2019 08:36 PM (7AtW1)

121 best Coolidge story I've heard - at a D.C. function some Washington Matron approached Coolidge, excited to see him after hours, She gushed "I'm so happy to meet you, my girlfriends bet me that I couldn't get you to say more than two words!"

Coolidge: "You Lose."

Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 08:37 PM (V2Yro)

122 Greetings:

Thankfully former President Obama casts a fly like he throws a baseball.

Posted by: 11B40 at June 22, 2019 08:37 PM (evgyj)

123 115 ... "Here's a picture of Coolidge smiling"

Hi Fenelon, Thanks for that link. I'm serious when I say that is probably the first picture I've seen of him smiling. Too bad. Cooledge had a nice smile.

Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 08:38 PM (bmdz3)

124 I know very little about trout fishing, but a 5 pounder sounds like an outstanding fish.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:38 PM (Lwfjs)

125 My dad loved to fish--he was more a "catch and release" type than "eat what you catch". He said he wanted to make sure the good fish were still in circulation and adding to the gene pool.

That I never went fishing with him is one of a hundred regrets I have.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 22, 2019 08:40 PM (lLeln)

126 120 My biggest fishes. A 5# brown and a 20in rainbow. Most of my catches were 8 to 12in trout. Best tasting IMO.
Posted by: Ronster at June 22, 2019 08:36 PM (7AtW1)
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Pan size trout caught from a fast running cold stream make the best eating.

Reminds me: I was told by several people that lake bass put up a huge fight when caught. Well, I hooked a small one in an MN lake, maybe 4lbs, and landed it without any trouble.

The stream trout I'd caught in the past were much harder to land than the lake bass and certainly much smaller.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:40 PM (WEBkv)

127 I was fishing in the Boundary Waters years ago on a canoe trip. For those who don't know it's thousands of miles of uninhabited, unspoiled lake shore. Hundreds of lakes strung together with portages of land connecting them, you lake hop essentially. Anyway, we were on a week long trip. I had a walleye on, it was massive. I caught an 11 pounder earlier and this one was bigger. I had it up to the canoe, my buddy had it in the net briefly and she flipped out, snapped the line and gone. I have lost bigger fish on the rivers on AK, and in the ocean. But for some reason that one killed me to lose.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 08:40 PM (i5w/I)

128 I fly cast like a fish rides a bicycle.

Posted by: Barry the Feminist at June 22, 2019 08:41 PM (QzkSJ)

129 A 20lb catfish is garbage.

20 lbs of 1 lb catfish is delectable.
Posted by: Ben Had

You've never had flathead.

Earlier, when someone said they were going after croaker, my first thought was, Where's the season open on frogs?"
July 1 here.

Posted by: MarkY at June 22, 2019 08:42 PM (Vigjq)

130 What they don't show you is in the next frame Barky hooks his ear.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 08:43 PM (fyf7W)

131 Barry would lose to women runners, weight lifters, soccer, and tennis players.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:43 PM (Lwfjs)

132 Maternal grandparents went for spring and fall salmon runs on the Rogue in the '60s. Grandpa caught a huge king, and at the boat a shark got it, with my grandmother hitting it with an oar. The picture in the paper showed my grandpa holding the top third of the fish at the scales. What was left weighed 35 pounds.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at June 22, 2019 08:43 PM (w7U7L)

133 I couldn't get you to say more than two words!"

Coolidge: "You Lose."
Posted by: tom servo

SCTV Hey Georgi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOu_t68mjNM

Posted by: Miklos the Uzbek at June 22, 2019 08:43 PM (QzkSJ)

134 132 Maternal grandparents went for spring and fall salmon runs on the Rogue in the '60s. Grandpa caught a huge king, and at the boat a shark got it, with my grandmother hitting it with an oar. The picture in the paper showed my grandpa holding the top third of the fish at the scales. What was left weighed 35 pounds.
Posted by: Charles the Simple at June 22, 2019 08:43 PM (w7U7L)
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That's hilarious. Though, I sort of shudder at the idea of smacking shark with an oar.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:44 PM (WEBkv)

135 Barky hooks his ear.

Makes sense. Biggest appendage on his body.

Posted by: Ronster at June 22, 2019 08:44 PM (7AtW1)

136 huh, the SCOAMF even fishes with a limp wrist.

Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at June 22, 2019 08:45 PM (Ayk4B)

137 BTW, there's nothing better than fresh fish (walleye) in the Boundary Waters in northern MN or Quietico in Canada. Cold water fish like that are so good! I make a mixture of corn flake crumbs and smashed up potato chips and seasonings, fried up with some potato's right on shore and a cold beer. That's living! Only other best thing I've had was some fresh salmon in Alaska roasted over a fire or one trip in Colorado after 4 days in the back country eating nothing but dehydrated food I caught maybe a 4lbs. cutthroat trout. It was divine!

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 08:46 PM (i5w/I)

138 That would be the ultimate bummer. Catch a huge marlin, fight it for hours and just as your winning some shark comes by and eats half of it.

Oh, this is a complete spoiler so don't read if you don't want to ruin a book that's only been out since 1952.

The sharks eat basically all the meat off the marlin. The old man makes it back to port and the skeleton is still strapped to his skiff. A tourist couple, young Americans, asks the waiter what happened.

"Tiburon", he says, "e shark". And the girl says "I didn't know sharks had such beautifully formed tails".

That's your Hemingway. All the warrior, and the humanity, and the pathos are just completely missed by the blithe bystanders.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 08:47 PM (fuK7c)

139 Greetings:

I live several blocks from our Municipal Pier which not fishers of men seem to think is the Municipal Fishing Pier.

There seems to be little attention paid to passersby while the practitioners are in the throes of their futility.

Dungeness crabs seem to be the big draw (is that fishing ???) but probably only 10% are Cali legal. This week stripers are being caught, good size fish but I don't eat fish. Also, there's some kind of fingerling thing that gets caught multiples at a time on one line.

Pelicans (whose mouths can hold more than their bellies can) have been scarce this year. But when they come, theu fly the best formations.

Posted by: 11B40 at June 22, 2019 08:47 PM (evgyj)

140
Here's a girl with a giant harp between her legs playing the Dracula theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPmKRtWta4E

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2019 08:47 PM (kMTAY)

141 is it Training camp yet?

Posted by: Quilp at June 22, 2019 08:47 PM (Bf3hj)

142 Maternal grandparents went for spring and fall salmon runs on the Rogue in the '60s. Grandpa caught a huge king, and at the boat a shark got it, with my grandmother hitting it with an oar. The picture in the paper showed my grandpa holding the top third of the fish at the scales. What was left weighed 35 pounds.
Posted by: Charles the Simple at June 22, 2019 08:43 PM (w7U7L)
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That's hilarious. Though, I sort of shudder at the idea of smacking shark with an oar.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:44 PM (WEBkv)

A woman who grabs an oar and goes after a shark sounds like a keeper to me.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at June 22, 2019 08:48 PM (/DO+A)

143 I was hoping to catch my college transcripts.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at June 22, 2019 08:48 PM (EgshT)

144 ...or a dogfish.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at June 22, 2019 08:49 PM (EgshT)

145 Last time I went fishing was at a friends pond south west of Houston in ~1985. My then young son was jigging for crappie from the dock with a piece of bacon on a single hook. I was casting for bass with a silver spoon. He caught a nice 2 lb black bass, and I caught a 12lb catfish. True story.

Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at June 22, 2019 08:50 PM (OMAvJ)

146 In all seriousness, it is tragic to consider how that could easily be near-elderly Barry's first time receiving any fishing instruction from another man. God knows all the drunks and molesters who he wanted so desperately to be his father couldn't get away and kill themselves fast enough.

Good thing that does not leave any permanent imprint regarding the role of other families' responsibility for taking absolute and total financial care of people they don't know and will never meet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:50 PM (Lwfjs)

147 I fought a 42 lbs. king in the Kenai river in AK for a good half hour. Released him and had to rest for another half hour before I could fish again. He knew how to use the current to his advantage. I'll never forget that fish!

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 08:50 PM (i5w/I)

148 I watched CO Game and fish try to stock Eleven mile Reservoir. The seagulls got most of them before they gained their bearings.

Posted by: Ronster at June 22, 2019 08:51 PM (7AtW1)

149 If Bush was surf casting anywhere near KenneBunkport, that water was colder than any trout stream.
And there was shrinkage

Posted by: Regular joe at June 22, 2019 08:52 PM (6/uwW)

150 Seriously, why did Bander make that his Facebook profile pic?

Posted by: tomorrow's trends today at June 22, 2019 08:52 PM (72spU)

151 As the oddball fisherman, I like to target carp. Not exciting as some other fishing, as it's not constant cast and retrieve, but there are lots of large freshwater carp in most areas, and they put up a fight. I'll have to send some pics next week.

Plus, all the crazy rigs and baits scratch my itch for odd tech and scientific approaches to hobbies.

Posted by: Grimaldi at June 22, 2019 08:53 PM (ng/Cv)

152 That's your Hemingway. All the warrior, and the humanity, and the pathos are just completely missed by the blithe bystanders.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

He also won a bar bet by writing a complete story in 5 words.

Posted by: Miklos at that place in Havana at June 22, 2019 08:53 PM (QzkSJ)

153 Pelicans are fascinating to watch flying over the waves.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, the Return of Moron Robbie, now in theaters at June 22, 2019 08:53 PM (Lwfjs)

154 Didn't get away but was caught and released;

48 inch Northern Pike from Conesus Lake, NY, on a 1 3/4 ounce chartreuse Grim Reaper spinner from 18' of water, Oct 10, 2001.

There's bigger in there as well. Certain there are 50+ fish in that lake.

Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at June 22, 2019 08:54 PM (Ayk4B)

155 If Bush was surf casting anywhere near KenneBunkport, that water was colder than any trout stream.

These are thoroughly researched photographs. That's HW in Florida celebrating his 1988 election.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 08:54 PM (fuK7c)

156 127
I was fishing in the Boundary Waters years ago on a canoe trip. For
those who don't know it's thousands of miles of uninhabited, unspoiled
lake shore. Hundreds of lakes strung together with portages of land
connecting them, you lake hop essentially. Anyway, we were on a week
long trip. I had a walleye on, it was massive. I caught an 11 pounder
earlier and this one was bigger. I had it up to the canoe, my buddy had
it in the net briefly and she flipped out, snapped the line and gone. I
have lost bigger fish on the rivers on AK, and in the ocean. But for
some reason that one killed me to lose.

Nothing worse than bringing something up to the boat on 6lb. test and the guy with the net fvcks it up, buddy or not. Though fishing in a canoe in cold water has added skills involved.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:54 PM (K22Va)

157 Didn't get away but was caught and released

There are 10 million stories like that

Posted by: ICE at June 22, 2019 08:55 PM (QzkSJ)

158 If Bush was surf casting anywhere near KenneBunkport, that water was colder than any trout stream.
And there was shrinkage
Posted by: Regular joe at June 22, 2019 08:52 PM

I was fishing in the spring in northern MN. Had the waders on and snagged a nice fish. Bent over to get it off the hook, didn't realize they were only over the waist and proceeded to fill my waders with 35 degree water. Shrinkage is not the term I would use. Inverted or transitioning to Sally maybe.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 08:55 PM (i5w/I)

159 These are thoroughly researched photographs. That's HW in Florida celebrating his 1988 election.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Where are the '92 pics?

Posted by: Miklos, 'cause Miklos at June 22, 2019 08:56 PM (QzkSJ)

160 "There are 10 million stories like that

Posted by: ICE at June 22, 2019 08:55 PM (QzkSJ)"

Fortunately for me, there are pics and a magazine cover with that fish.

Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at June 22, 2019 08:56 PM (Ayk4B)

161 also, lawl. well played ICE

Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at June 22, 2019 08:56 PM (Ayk4B)

162 As the oddball fisherman, I like to target carp

I've got a carp story. Had a cousin, now dead, who ran a fishing excursion boat on Lake Michigan. He'd come down to Mo once or twice a year, and always brought down a smoked Lake trout or lake salmon for my Pop.
One day, Pop called, said bring some beer and crackers, Donny brought a big smoked fish.
Eating it, loving it, he asks us what we think we're eating.
It was carp, probably a 30#er or so, and it was larrupin.

Posted by: MarkY at June 22, 2019 08:57 PM (Vigjq)

163 Nothing worse than bringing something up to the boat on 6lb. test and the guy with the net fvcks it up, buddy or not. Though fishing in a canoe in cold water has added skills involved.
Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 08:54 PM

Yea he kind of hit it midsection with the frame of the net, not really his fault as the fish was going nuts, but I kept thinking. Well I wouldn't have lost it! lol. it happens but man I was mad I lost it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 08:57 PM (i5w/I)

164 Bander, Thanks for another great fishing thread. This one is full of good (and amusing) memories and some real humor.

Posted by: JTB at June 22, 2019 08:58 PM (bmdz3)

165 Well, there's that time we were fishing for Corvina in the Salton Sea in SoCal when I was a wee lad of thirteen or so. Me , Dad and my two brothers in a borrowed boat.

We had caught a few throw backs when I latched onto a keeper. I don't remember exactly how big it was. I only know it took me about 30 minutes or so to horse it into the boat. At a guess, I'd say it weighed in at 15 pounds or so.

Dad put it on the stringer and promptly took a nap. Brothers, being what they are, jealous scamps, kept pulling the stringer up to look at the big fish. I of course, told them to leave it alone.

Well, by and by, Dad wakes up, grabs a beer out of the cooler and starts to haul the stringer of fish in. He about busted his ass because in all the hauling the fish out of the water and putting it back, brothers' had somehow allowed the biggest fish I ever caught, get away.

To add insult to injury, we lost the prop and had to be towed in to the dock. It was quite a tow because the Salton Sea is a pretty big lake and we were out in the middle of it.

That's my true fish story and I'm sticking to it these almost 50 years later.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 22, 2019 09:02 PM (WT2tG)

166 My funniest fishing story that my brother and I laugh about now is that the first time Dad let us take the little boat out (We were maybe 10 and 12 years old) much to my Mom's protesting he let us go with the 5HP sea king motor and 12 ft. boat as long as we stayed in view of the cabin. Things were fine until I went to cast my daredevil lure and on the backswing hooked my brothers ear. Poor dad just got the "look" from my mom for a few days

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:02 PM (i5w/I)

167 Fat girl at grocery store got to the shrink wrapped salmon fillets before I could close the distance.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:03 PM (QzJWU)

168 Fat girl at grocery store got to the shrink wrapped salmon fillets before I could close the distance.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:03 PM (

Sounds like a song lyric! Headin out to salmon cisco....

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:05 PM (i5w/I)

169 For facts on Corvina...http://www.bombolinis.com/corvina.htm

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 22, 2019 09:06 PM (WT2tG)

170 Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:03 PM (QzJWU)

Track shoes, my good man, track shoes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:07 PM (AZxMX)

171 There's always the hey honey, check out this box of Twinkies distraction.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 22, 2019 09:08 PM (WT2tG)

172 cast my daredevil lure and on the backswing hooked my brothers ear.

I'm surprised you didn't take a chunk off. My dad had a 5HP Champion that had no reverse. Had to start it with a rope that whipped us with the cushions in front of our faces.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:08 PM (K22Va)

173 First time I took N**** the Valiant fishing in Lake Arrowhead he was three. I was going to cast for him, but of course he had to do it himself. Well, he didn't get the lure three feet from shore, and I was about to take the rod from him and cast again when a 3 pound smallmouth just smashed it. You wouldn't think there was enough water to float that fish there. Well, he gets the fish in and says, "Let's do that again!" Like every would have the same result.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at June 22, 2019 09:09 PM (w7U7L)

174 Fat girl at grocery store got to the shrink wrapped salmon fillets before I could close the distance.

"Shrink wrap ain't just for salmon, Little Lady..."

Posted by: Miklos, casting around for a pickup line at June 22, 2019 09:10 PM (QzkSJ)

175 Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at June 22, 2019 08:54 PM (Ayk4B)

What is the prey in that NY Lake that the pike grow so large?

Posted by: clutch at June 22, 2019 09:10 PM (kiSdp)

176
Was she wearing Spanx?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 22, 2019 09:11 PM (kMTAY)

177 We had some exciting times trying to outrun storms on the lake with our 5HP Champion.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:11 PM (K22Va)

178 cast my daredevil lure and on the backswing hooked my brothers ear.

I'm surprised you didn't take a chunk off. My dad had a 5HP Champion that had no reverse. Had to start it with a rope that whipped us with the cushions in front of our faces.
Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:08 PM

Same thing with that motor, you had to wrap the flywheel with the rope and no matter what you did, or how you stood etc the SOB would always hit you in the face. I raced back with my brother screaming at me. My dad and mom could hear us across the lake. My dad got out his side cutters, clipped off the barb and backed it out.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:11 PM (i5w/I)

179 BTW, lest someone accuse me of taking cheap shots. Check out the watermark bottom left of the Obama photo. The White House released that officially.

They thought it was a good look.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 09:13 PM (fuK7c)

180 We had some exciting times trying to outrun storms on the lake with our 5HP Champion.
Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:11 PM

The top speed of our 5HP sea king was maybe 4kts. The prop was the diameter of a tea saucer. But that thing ran all day on that tiny little tank on top.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:13 PM (i5w/I)

181 And there was the time we, me, Dad, my two brothers and a friend went Crappie fishing on Lake Henshaw in San Diego County. We rented a lake boat for a couple of days.

In a day and a half, we caught 250 Crappie and 6 Bluegill using little lead head feather jigs and in the afternoon, a bobber on the line above the jig when the wind got up. Dang fish couldn't resist. I bet we lost half as many as we caught. They don't call them "paper mouth bass" for nothing.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 22, 2019 09:14 PM (WT2tG)

182 Andrew Brietbart about his role in helping to create the Huffington Post, "I went in with dual purposes. While the Huffington Post in theory served Arianna's and the left's goals of creating a battlefront where they could fight their battles, it served my ulterior purpose of creating preparation for talk radio and cable news, where everyone could see what lunacies constituted the thought processes of the richest noblesse oblige liberals in our land, the people who benefit the most from our way of life and yet craft the culture of our land in opposition to that way of life. Frankly, I wanted to put them on display. And, for different reasons, so did Arianna."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 22, 2019 09:14 PM (LxTcq)

183 They thought it was a good look.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 09:13 PM (fuK7c)

But, of course they would!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:14 PM (AZxMX)

184 cast my daredevil lure and on the backswing hooked my brothers ear.

Sounds like a new business line!

Posted by: Multi-Gendered MultiPiercings. Inc. at June 22, 2019 09:14 PM (QzkSJ)

185 But, of course they would!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:14 PM

Brought to you by, Mom jeans and a bike helmet. Dafuq? Erkel.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:16 PM (i5w/I)

186 Jim. I have procured the oysters but you and I need to talk about transportation.

OH and HI- How are Ya?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 09:17 PM (fyf7W)

187 Trump before he boarded his helicopter for Camp David. Today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGubC6nqLN4

Posted by: Billy at June 22, 2019 09:18 PM (nuOac)

188 Ben Had, drop me a line. Right now is actually a good time to get on the phone and cover some logistics.

But... what lure for bags of oysters, huh?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:20 PM (QzJWU)

189 sort of a distaff Tyrion Lannister,

I am choosing to take this as a compliment.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at June 22, 2019 09:21 PM (GbPPJ)

190 cast my daredevil lure and on the backswing hooked my brothers ear.

Sounds like a new business line!
Posted by: Multi-Gendered MultiPiercings. Inc. at June 22, 2019 09:14 PM

All I know is that as soon as my dad got the lure out of his ear he looked at me and said. "good job asshole"

Normally at that age my dad would have given us a swat for saying that as he was the only one allowed to swear. My dad just looked at me and shrugged with a smile.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:22 PM (i5w/I)

191 Jim my phone # for your never worked so I'm going to get off of here and email you my #

Posted by: Ben Had at June 22, 2019 09:23 PM (fyf7W)

192 "Jim. I have procured the oysters but you and I need to talk about transportation."

Wasn't that the radio message to the free French to let them know the invasion was eminent?

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:24 PM (i5w/I)

193 But... what lure for bags of oysters, huh?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:20 PM (QzJWU)

Trickery.

Posted by: The walrus and/or the carpenter at June 22, 2019 09:25 PM (t+qrx)

194 But... what lure for bags of oysters, huh?

Lures, bait....them oysters move kinda slow.

Patience, and don't spook 'em.

Posted by: Miklos. inventor of the Oysterizer at June 22, 2019 09:25 PM (QzkSJ)

195 "le huitre ont d'un moustache longue"

Posted by: Miklos Calling at June 22, 2019 09:26 PM (QzkSJ)

196 Oh, gee, I missed the NHL draft. How the hell did that happen.

Posted by: Quilp at June 22, 2019 09:27 PM (Bf3hj)

197 I've tried to like oysters. I really have. All I can think of is rubber balls soaked in motor oil that taste like really old expired fish.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:27 PM (i5w/I)

198 What is the prey in that NY Lake that the pike grow so large?

Posted by: clutch at June 22, 2019 09:10 PM (kiSdp)

pretty much everything else. That lake has a solid food chain top to bottom. Smaller pike are eating bluegills/perch/shiners, big ones eat anything they want.

Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at June 22, 2019 09:27 PM (Ayk4B)

199 "le huitre ont d'un moustache longue"

Bearded clam > mustachioed oyster.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 09:28 PM (fuK7c)

200 As a wee Tonypete, I lived three houses up the hill from the crick. My dear Mother had quite a cottage industry going removing miscast hooks from hands, ears, heads and asses of all the neighborhood anglers.

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2019 09:28 PM (Y4EXg)

201 Bearded clam > mustachioed oyster.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

"wounds my heart with monotonous oysters"

Posted by: Agent Miklos Calling at June 22, 2019 09:29 PM (QzkSJ)

202 I've tried to like oysters. I really have. All I can think of is rubber balls soaked in motor oil that taste like really old expired fish.

Where have you tried them? Inland they can't be counted on to be much more than that. Fresh from an oyster place they're the very taste of the ocean doing that thing in your mouth.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 09:30 PM (fuK7c)

203 I've fished my whole life and never caught anything on a pole more than 5 lbs. But I've eaten good.

Posted by: Frasier Crane (I'm coming back!) at June 22, 2019 09:31 PM (F8YM0)

204 "wounds my heart with monotonous oysters"
Posted by: Agent Miklos Calling at June 22, 2019 09:29 PM (QzkSJ)

I'll go ahead and wager $20 that these words have never been spoken before in that order.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:31 PM (t+qrx)

205 That first pic isn't so bad... that is, if his intention was a fancy backwards cast to lay that fly out behind him. If he keeps the follow-through on that backwards cast, the line and fly will gently float down with just enough slack in the line to make a very nice presentation. It takes a lot of expertise to do that!

/sarc

Posted by: DaveK at June 22, 2019 09:31 PM (BDbDs)

206 "wounds my heart with monotonous oysters"
Posted by: Agent Miklos Calling at June 22, 2019 09:29 PM (QzkSJ)

I'll go ahead and wager $20 that these words have never been spoken before in that order.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:31 PM (t+qrx)

Finally, something new.

Posted by: Solomon at June 22, 2019 09:32 PM (aS1PU)

207 Fresh from an oyster place

Don't know about other places, but SC has dozens of public oyster beds. Limit 2 bushels/person/day.

Posted by: Miklos, shuckin and jivin at June 22, 2019 09:32 PM (QzkSJ)

208 that spunk monkey in the top photo would be more at home tongue punching a chocolate starfish in the carribean. fuck him. where's his becky helmut?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 22, 2019 09:33 PM (KP5rU)

209 Where have you tried them? Inland they can't be counted on to be much more than that. Fresh from an oyster place they're the very taste of the ocean doing that thing in your mouth.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 09:30 PM

Some place in NOLA. Maybe it's a texture thing. I am not a picky eater. The taste doesn't bug me as much, it's the texture I think. I have had mussels and I don't love them but were so so. Oysters. Can't do it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:33 PM (i5w/I)

210 Normally at that age my dad would have given us a swat for saying that
as he was the only one allowed to swear. My dad just looked at me and
shrugged with a smile.

To get a swat wasn't such a big deal in those days and the old man got his point across without arguing with kids. He'd say, I'm going to tell you this one time, so you better listen.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:34 PM (K22Va)

211 I like smoked oysters and oyster stew.

Posted by: Ronster at June 22, 2019 09:34 PM (7AtW1)

212 "wounds my heart with monotonous oysters"
Posted by: Agent Miklos Calling at June 22, 2019 09:29 PM (QzkSJ)

I'll go ahead and wager $20 that these words have never been spoken before in that order.
Posted by: hogmartin

Send the $20 to Muldoon on condition that he leaves this one ALONE

Posted by: Miklos, it is a bit late for oysters at June 22, 2019 09:35 PM (QzkSJ)

213 To get a swat wasn't such a big deal in those days and the old man got his point across without arguing with kids. He'd say, I'm going to tell you this one time, so you better listen.
Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:34 PM

Certain things they gave us passes for swearing. Hook in the ear, snowball right in the face or ear. Stubbed toe etc. Years later my dad told me how he was laughing about it, he could hear my brother swearing at me across the lake. Picture Ralphie dropping the F bomb.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 22, 2019 09:36 PM (i5w/I)

214 Picture Ralphie dropping the F bomb.
Posted by: Minnfidel

-----

When I was 14 or so, I dropped the f bomb on my Dad not as quietly as I had intended.

When I came to, I had a completely new appreciation of what third place finish in his Division boxing tourny meant.

Boy I miss that guy!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2019 09:43 PM (Y4EXg)

215 I buried my old man with a picture of him gilling a 14 lb. walleye.

Posted by: Frasier Crane (I'm coming back!) at June 22, 2019 09:43 PM (F8YM0)

216 wise sock off

Posted by: DR.WTF at June 22, 2019 09:44 PM (aS1PU)

217 Don't think I like you people.

Posted by: Kilgore Trout at June 22, 2019 09:47 PM (QzkSJ)

218 The ONT, she is here!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 09:47 PM (kQs4Y)

219 BH: I'm having visions of an oyster version of Cannonball Run!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:48 PM (AZxMX)

220 Boy I miss that guy!

Me too. How many people can say they got their ass kicked by a WW2 vet.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:49 PM (K22Va)

221 I buried my old man with a picture of him gilling a 14 lb. walleye.

Posted by: Frasier Crane (I'm coming back!) at June 22, 2019 09:43 PM (F8YM0)

Well done, sir!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:49 PM (AZxMX)

222 One suspects that some CoB is up to some ONT mischief.

Keep your eyes on that CBD boy.

Posted by: The Miklos Report at June 22, 2019 09:50 PM (QzkSJ)

223 a friend took me fishing on the esopus in upstate ny and lent me a harvey bamboo rod and tied on a 3 hook lure. i was waist deep in the creek after about a half hour when i felt a hit, pulled up the rod and there were 3 trout on the line. "hey, matt" i called out, but they had dropped back in the water and were gone.

3 on 1 - swearsies.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 22, 2019 09:50 PM (Pg+x7)

224 The last time I went fishing, I wasn't even fishing, I just watched. One of my buddies hadn't bought a license, he was using the Ronco Pocket Fisherman (remember those?)

I saw something moving out of the corner of my eye, and it was Johnny Law, Wildlife Division, sneaking up on my buddy, looking like Barney Fife when he'd do that half waddle thing and sneak up behind a boulder. He caught his prey, and looked at me with a jaundiced eye, accusing me of fishing without a license, even though I had no reel or tackle. Apparently just being near a stream during fishing season is suspect. Maybe.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 22, 2019 09:50 PM (Jn4GT)

225 How many people can say they got their ass kicked by a WW2 vet.

Posted by: dartist at June 22, 2019 09:49 PM (K22Va)

I know my WW II dad could have kicked my ass, hard life and tough as nails, but I respected him so much I tried to never give him any reason to even think about it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:57 PM (AZxMX)

226
Halibut fishing in Resurrection Bay in Alaska, in 18 ft Boston Whalers that the Army ran from their rec camp in Seward. Loads of fun.

Hooked a big one that was an absolute beast to pull up. Took about 20-30 minutes of hauling to get him up to where we could see him. Saw a dark grey shape about 6 feet long rolling over white as he showed his belly trying to shake the hook. The whole boat was just hooting and hollering encouragement.

Until he broke the surface with a fin. Turns out it wasn't a halibut. Stingray, big one. Had to be well over 100 lbs. Seriously disappointing, because I wasn't going to kill a 100+ lb fish in order to get 5 lbs of edible meat from the cheeks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 22, 2019 10:07 PM (WJy0R)

227 coolidge. fished in a suit and tie. and hat.

Posted by: vivi at June 22, 2019 10:16 PM (11H2y)

228 coolidge. fished in a suit and tie. and hat.

Posted by: vivi at June 22, 2019 10:16 PM (11H2y)

We're a much better society now that everyone dresses in greasy tee shirts!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 10:24 PM (AZxMX)

229
That's hilarious. Though, I sort of shudder at the idea of smacking shark with an oar.
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 08:44 PM (WEBkv)

Yeah. You need one of those syringe things divers use, that jabs the shark, and then inflates him with high-pressure air or CO2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 10:27 PM (WG6O9)

230 You need one of those syringe things divers use, that jabs the shark, and then inflates him with high-pressure air or CO2.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 10:27 PM (WG6O9)

Bang-stick

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 10:46 PM (AZxMX)

231 #42. Same kinda thing up there. My brother cast into a washing machine bowl under a bridge. A HUGE trout took it and jumped into the pool below hooked turning circles. No net... when trying to land it it just pulled line tight and snapped it swam off.

There are monster trout in the Sierra's.

Posted by: torabora at June 22, 2019 10:59 PM (UCQSV)

232 Earlier this month I took a guided trout fishing trip in northern Michigan. The guide introduced me to night "mousing" for big brown trout. After dark, big mouse-shaped fly, on a smaller stream called Bear Creek that runs down into the Manistee River. We fished streamers and dry flies beginning in later afternoon. I caught several small rainbows (6") and a brookie. After supper we pushed off after dark and in a few minutes, a big splash and a big pull. I'd hooked a big brown on the mouse, but I lost him as the guide readied the net. I probably didn't get a solid hookset as the mouse fly has a big hook, larger than a typical fly. And after that.... nothing. Not a splash, not a sound, not a thing. After a few more hours, sometime after 1AM, I had to call it quits as my arm was about to fall off. This was tight water so it was almost all roll casts, a few quick strips, and roll again. But the stars at night. Wow! No moon, very few houses near the stream, and a clear cold night.

Posted by: George V at June 23, 2019 07:31 AM (ORvjE)

233 My. oh my! How times have changed! Getting into a suit to go fishing!

Reminds me of my father. Before sitting down to watch TV, he would put on a tie. Not as rigorous as fishing, but still just as out of place today as fishing with one on.

The final question is: are we better now for having changed?

Posted by: RobertM at June 23, 2019 08:12 AM (hWbsA)

234 I've recently moved to South Florida. Fishing down here is a hoot. I've got a lot of panfish including shellcrackers, Mayan cichlid, Oscars, bluegills, you name it. On the bass front, I caught a four and a half pound largemouth out of the canal that parallels W Atlantic avenue and a peacock bass in a small pond between the FLW headquarters and Bass pro shops while waiting for the store to open. Lots of dinks too. I do miss fishing West by God for smallmouth, bigly.

Posted by: Inflammable at June 23, 2019 09:38 AM (dlZka)

235 That cast is as limp as the things Barry used to fluff in his bathhouse days.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at June 23, 2019 11:37 AM (WRSbt)

236 Forgot to mention:Trolling a channel in Everett Bay north side near the stone house, Washington and hooked a big Dolly Varden trout - it got away as we were netting it. I fished a decent amount in that bay and have never once seen or caught another DV.

Posted by: 13times at June 23, 2019 05:15 PM (K3B2k)

237 It wished all the nominees quite best of luck at the show.

He won the amount playing River Belle Online Casino
playing the Mega Moolah Massive jackpot slots.
I even had an uncle who sang a lot like Johnny Income.

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