I’m a fisherman. Always have been since I was 5. Freshwater mainly. I’ve never had the pleasure of salt water fishing. I’ll fish for trout, bass, walleye, pretty much anything here in the lakes of Arizona. More specifically though, I mostly enjoy heading up to the desert lakes during the middle of the summer for all night catfishing. The big flatheads and channel cats make for some fun fishing. Although last year I caught a 27 pound common grass carp on a crawdad fishing for a big cat, talk about a nice surprise! Hey I’ll take a 27 pound any fish. Pretty good way to beat the heat, and in Phoenix that’s no joke during the summer.
ERM.. im a fisherMAN, yup have been fishin since i was a kid, mostly freshwater: Fly fishing both wet and dry for trout, the river Annalee that flows through my village is going well at the minute on dry olives and mayfly, lovely wild brownies, i also do a lot of Pike and Perch fishing, when i lived in Dublin i done a lot of sea-fishing also.
Oh yeah and i hold an NCEA (National Cert Edu.Awards) in Aquaculture (fishfarming) both shell and fin.
I used to fish for bass and catfish all the time when I was a boy and a teen. I have been thinking that it’s about time to start taking my son out to learn the trick of it.
I’ve been deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico once…that’s an entirely different animal! The fish were biting as fast as we could throw the line in, and my wife and I ended up with something like 27 lbs of red snapper, triggerfish, and vermilion snapper at the end of the day. We got plenty tired of fish for dinner by the time all of that was gone!
I was curious what kind of freshwater fish resided in Ireland. Looks like cold water fish. Trout, pike, and perch you say? Any other freshwater species in Ireland?
I never did get into fly fishing. Was raised on the push button spincast Zebco reels. Yep, I’m a laid back fisherman. Throw on some live bait, and let the bait do the work. That way I can free up my hands, play some whistle, (which sounds awesome if you’re in a fairly small cove with mountains on both sides) or eat! Ah but everyonce in a while I’ll get bored and tie on lure to cast around a bit. Sometimes artificials does the trick when live bait won’t do a thing!
I’m kind of a fisherman; I’ve been known to sit in a chair along a riverbank or lake shore, with an un-baited hook in the water so I don’t have some pesky slimey fish interrupting my rare moments of just enjoying being “out.” I usually take a book (textbook or otherwise) with me too.
If I, by mistake, just happen to catch something it usually finds itself back in the lake with an interesting “alien abduction” story for the other fish to not believe.
Growing up in NE Minnesota (land of 10,000 lakes and one really big one…), fishing was (and is ) a way of life. Rarely, if ever during the long and intellectually challenging conversations of Minnesotans, does fishing or simply fish (see lutefisk) not enter. It is as un-Minnesotan as you can get to deny that the lust for angling does not dwell deep- within your breast. It is equally as un-Minnesotan to lie about the size of the fish one catches… before ingesting loads of Arco coffee or Hamms Beer.
The largest fish I caught was a 35 and 3/4 lb Chinook Salmon at the first pool in, from the North Shore of the Big Lake (Superior) on the Casscade River, just south of Grande Portage and the US/Canadian border. Big fish, sure, you betcha.
They love balogna too. We used to have a 10 pounder that we caught as a minnow, and it’d come up to the surface of the water and allow itself to be petted behind the head if we had a slice of balogna to give it.
My husband lives to fish. Really. He will even get up at say, 4 in the morning to drive a couple of hours to sit out on the ice and fish in the winter.
Right now he’s fishing mostly for trout. I have to check the stocking lists constantly so he knows where to go. Earlier this spring it was walleye from the river.
I don’t like to fish with one exception- I do enjoy pier fishing at the ocean in the fall. My dad was just like my husband, fish crazy, and we have his salt water tackle to use. Ironically, I usually catch more or better fish than him when I do fish. I kid him and tell him it’s in my genes.
We went deep sea fishing once. I thought the boat ride was fun- amazing how many got sea sick. That fishing was too much like work.
I love to fish - grew up cat fishin’, bluegill, largemouth, etc. Mostly warm water stuff, but was an absolute fanatic. Started fly-fishing in high-school. After college went to Alaska for a couple of years and worked as a fly-fishing guide (salmon, trout, dollies, etc.), then 3 years working and guiding at a fly-shop in Tennessee, then a couple years doing the same in Colorado. Now I’m a college prof, and there are many, many, many a day when I wish I were a guide again!! Not much money in it, but who needs that when you’re catching 40 pd King Salmon on a fly-rod, in a river whose current will almost knock you over because it is flowing so hard . . . and then there are the mountains right over your shoulder . . . and the grizzlies!!
Fly fishing… Yes, even here in LA LA land. You can go fish the east fork of the San Gabriel, about 45 minutes from my house) and catch small brown trout. Catch and Release only.
Well, I suspect it would work with expensive ones, too, but the cheap ones are tougher and stay on the hook better. Leave the more expensive ones at home and pour chili over them if you don’t end up catching enough fish for dinner.
Pretty good way to beat the heat, and in Phoenix that’s no joke during the summer.
Hey I actually like to eat fish as well, so I understand ya!
