Does anyone have any good fishing stories?

[Jayson1]

I think in all my years on the Trekbbs I have never heard anyone ever talk about fishing. Granted I don't really fish myself though I have gone a few times when I was younger but I thought it would be a interesting question for no other reason than I don't think it has ever been asked.

My few times fishing have been a mixed bag. I always got bored almost instantly. If I caught a fish I was scared to touch it. I guess my four best fishing stories would be:

1 I once accidently let go of the fishing pole and out into the pound it went.

2 I once swang the pole back that the hook ended up nailing my older step brother. Which was at least a upgrade over the times I would get the hook tangled in a tree.

3 Once went crawdad fishing I guess you call it with my grandmother and dad and brothers. Basically you stand on a bridge and drop a trap down into the water and pull them up. We ended up eating them for super though I didn't clean them because that was to gross.

4 Here is a fishing story that is barely a fishing story. We had a little stream at my dad's house and me and my younger brother were going over their to fish. My stepmom was leaving someone and was turning on her minivan and then you heard a bunch of screeching. Nobody knew what it was but it was coming from the engine so we popped the hood and the family cat jumped out of the engine with missing chunks of hair. For whatever reason the cat wanted to get inside or sleep on the engine. It was fine afterwards but the cat's hair never looked, right ever again though it lived many years afterwards.

Jason

 

[Mr Soak]

I caught a fish once, and it wasn't because a fishmonger threw it at me.

 

[Timewalker]

4 Here is a fishing story that is barely a fishing story. We had a little stream at my dad's house and me and my younger brother were going over their to fish. My stepmom was leaving someone and was turning on her minivan and then you heard a bunch of screeching. Nobody knew what it was but it was coming from the engine so we popped the hood and the family cat jumped out of the engine with missing chunks of hair. For whatever reason the cat wanted to get inside or sleep on the engine. It was fine afterwards but the cat's hair never looked, right ever again though it lived many years afterwards.

The cat was lucky it wasn't killed. That's what happened to my cousin's cat. She got wrapped up in the fan belt and was killed.


Fishing story? Okay... I caught two fish in the North Saskatchewan River when I was 6 years old. We'd gone camping over Labor Day weekend with my mom's parents and my grandmother handed me a fishing rod without telling me there was a baited hook on it.

I was so surprised when I caught something, that I yanked the line out of the water and the fish slapped my grandmother right in the face (for some reason she wasn't very happy about that).

Anyway, those two fish (they weren't big ones) were my supper that night - quite tasty.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I LOVED fishing when I was a kid and would sit at the end of a pier forever. I wondered when I grew up why I was never bored and I eventually realized it was the gambling element. At any moment the line could get pulled and who knows what it could be!

Now the only fishing I do is in WoW. I have no interest in it though I love to go to the fish market and buy fish.

 

[Timewalker]

My other grandmother sometimes fished off the end of the pier when we stayed at our cabin on Okanagan Lake. Sometimes she'd catch a kokanee (wonderful eating!), but one time she caught a turtle.

No, we did not eat the turtle. We let it go.

 

[Kronos]

I was pulling the line across the water and managed to snag a fish in the side.

I felt really bad to catch him that way

 

[Herbert]

When I was a kid, my family owned a small shack about an hour away from where we lived. The place was rustic. Whenever we went there the first time of the year, we had to run the water for a while because it came out brown initially. We had one of those antiques side loader toasters. I was always fascinated by that thing. You can see one here.

It was a great place for a kid. There were ample woods, a lake, (we used to refer to the place as, "The Lake") and an open sandy area beyond the woods that was called the "quarry". People would target shoot there and I'd have fun collecting various types of shell cartridges and the occasional whole clay pigeon. There were also depressions in the quarry that would fill with water in the spring. These vernal pools would be breeding grounds for thousands of tadpoles.

Anyway, there was a small dam at one end of the lake that was created to power a long gone mill. Small amounts of water spilled over the top. My dad and I used to walk across. Probably not a smart thing to do. It was very slippery. One day we were fishing below the dam. We were about 10 feet above the water level. My dad spots a pair of needle nose plyers in the water and proceeds to climb down the wall. Of course, he slipped and fell. Luckily he wasn't hurt. Ah, the memories.

I enjoy fishing although I rarely get to do it much these days.

 

[cosmic mouse]

When I was 6 my dad was surf fishing for bluefish off the coast of RI and accidentally hooked a shark on his line that he couldn't disentangle/unhook without severely injuring the shark, so he reeled it in and the shark got sacrificed. This was probably about 4-5 years after Jaws was released in theaters, so he saved the carcass for when all the neighborhood kids got off school and cut the shark open (similar to the scene in Jaws). Among other things there was a plastic mesh bag in its stomach (like the kind onions are sold in) ... no license plates though. And us kids loved it.

 

[Spot261]

I've been fishing about five times in my life.


Never caught anything except a cold. As an aside I've been taught to dig reservoirs for catching river fish on a survival course and learnt an appreciation for just how inefficient the whole process of rod and line fishing actually is. It's like eating soup with a pointy stick.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

No, we did not eat the turtle. We let it go.

That's good.

If you had eaten it, all shell would have broken loose.

 

[DimesDan]

I have no intention of ever going fishing, I find the very idea of it, well, silly. It's not for me.

 

[Amaris]

My uncle used to fish at Bonable Lake, in Florida. He loved to fish, so of course he had his own customized rod and reel, lures, you name it. One night, we were at the lake, and fishing. Well, he and my dad were fishing, my brother and I were listening to music, though I had also been given the task of keeping a giant flashlight trained on the shoreline. See, if you hit them with the light head on, you can see the eyes of alligators moving about in the water.

Well, my uncle had caught several bass already, and was tossing his line in for another when it snagged on something out in the water. I pointed the light out in that direction, and saw two glowing eyes staring back, about 20 meters off shore. Instead of giving it up for lost, though, my uncle says he's going to go in and retrieve his lure. It was his favorite, after all. We watched as he waded out into the lake. At that moment, the eyes disappeared from view. I scanned all along the bank, out in the water, I couldn't see it anywhere, and I told my uncle forget about the lure, come back to shore.

Well, he said he knew what he was doing, and swam out, seemed to grab at something, and swam back, utterly unharmed. He told us the lure had caught on some grass out in the water. I have no idea how he could do that, or why the alligator didn't strike, but my uncle was just that way. Nothing seemed to phase him. Oh, because it was so dark, on the way back to the shore, I fell off the boat dock, but that's not a particularly important part of the story.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Now the only fishing I do is in WoW. I have no interest in it though I love to go to the fish market and buy fish.

I like to watch other people buy fish.

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[fireproof78]

Every time I've gone fishing my daughters have caught something and I have not.

My eldest was about 7 or so, and we were fishing with my in-laws on a boat. It was a pretty lazy day and hot, and not really having much luck. Each of the adults would take turns watching my daughter, when she suddenly she gets a bite! My father-in-law helps reel it in, and it's a pretty large fish. He grabs it and goes to put it in a bucket of water. Well, the fish is way to big and jumps out and flops on the deck as my daughters are screaming and trying to get away, which is difficult to do on a boat.

And I didn't catch anything.