slo’s WEDNESDAY 8/27 poll - Fishing 🎣

[slo]

I see and talk to a lot of people every day and I hear about all their activities. Since I see these people multiple times a week, month and year we get to know each other very well. Lately, there’s been an uptick with people fishing. I live close to Lake Michigan and people do fish on that lake, but most people are going to smaller lakes in other states. People, keep saying how they enjoy how relaxing and quiet this activity is. One said, and I quote….”I gets me away from human noise.” I will say that men talk about fishing more than women, but a lot of men say their wife or girlfriend go with them. So let’s talk about fishing today…..

Do you currently go fishing?
If yes…..are you a man or woman?
If no……did you used to go fishing?
Do you go for the fish, for the relaxation or both?
(multiple choice)



For Me…….Both my DH and I are not people that like to fish . We were not raised in families that do things in the great outdoors. We’ve both tried it, because so many other people enjoy it, and it’s not for us. I wish it was because it looks very relaxing, but I’m to much of a go go go go person, that I don’t have the patience to fish. I do enjoy eating the fish my neighbor catches at his yearly fish fry

 

[Kitty 34]

I don't fish but DH and my brothers love to fish. Right now they're planning their salmon fishing trip in northern Michigan for next month.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I used to fish when I was a child. We went to our grandmother's lake house every summer. There wasn't a lot to do there besides fishing, swimming and hiking. We caught small pan fish. I used to clean the fish, too. But I'm not interested in it now.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I enjoy fishing.

 

[Meriweather]

I don't like to fish.....I used to go with my Grandfather sometimes when we would visit them in Idaho, but never enjoyed it.
On a couple vacations we took the kids fishing......I think we were in Jackson, WY.
They tried it, didn't really like and so no one does it anymore.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I have tried fishing before... it's not really my thing. This is when I was a kid. By fishing I mean just standing on a pond bank with a little kids size fishing pole thing (not any of this boat and serious fishing type stuff). Fish kind of give me the creeps, so if I were to catch one, I would not want it

 

[clappyclaps]

Never been fishing and can't say I have any interest in ever doing so either. Closest I've ever gotten is rock pooling when I was a very young child to catch crabs etc, which i loved at the time but not something I'd be doing as an adult!

 

[bobbiwoz]

My dad took me deep sea fishing once.
I took my boys fishing at the campground where my parents had a camper, and we would release the fish.

I enjoy eating fish, and I have a pond with goldfish. Neighbor children often pretend to have a fishing pole to tease me about catching the goldfish. However mostly the children like to help me feed the fish.

 

[HopperFan]

I don't enjoy fishing ~ for me it is boring. BUT DH is an avid fisherman, from the beach on a regular basis and ocean fishing on a boat with his brother. They used to "deep sea" fish but now that they are older, brother boat is smaller and they do inshore fishing. He brings home fresh fish and usually have plenty in the freezer. It's good but I tease it would be cheaper to buy at grocery. He has tried fresh water a couple times, fly fishing and while he enjoyed at moment, not for him. I do not like to eat fresh water fish.

So I go to Disney World and he goes fishing!

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I would rather sit around and watch paint dry or maybe watch the grass grow then go fishing it is definitely not for me I have done it several times and if somebody would’ve threw me in the water to drowned I would’ve been like thank you it is so not for me ymmv everyone of my family members enjoys going fishing and I’m like go have fun sit out on the water with your pole stand on the bank with your pole all day long trying to catch a fish I hope you have fun but please do not ask me to go because I’m not going to do it I have never seen or understood the enjoyment of doing that it is to me one of the most boring things in the world but they love it and these are people that you can’t get up out of bed in the morning for anything except going to DISNEY but they’ll get up at the crack of chicken to go fishing makes zero sense to me
But it’s just not for me a good friend of mine her son‘s love to go fishing and I gave them all my fishing stuff because yes I had fishing stuff because my family members are so loved to go fishing so of course I had to get fishing stuff because we had all do it together and then I’m like nope not for me

 

[PollyannaMom]

I voted "other" - I have family members who fished, and I enjoyed going along as photographer, but did not fish myself.

 

[leebee]

I have been fishing twice in my life, and it was one time too many for me, hahaha! Unless lobstering counts. I had a boyfriend when I was in my early 20s who was a lobsterman. Sometimes I'd go along for the ride when he'd haul traps, but I get violently motion sick, especially on boats, so I didn't go too often!

 

[RedAngie]

My uncle had a boat and my family and I went out on it a few times in the mid to late 1970s. My goal was a pleasure trip on the ocean or bay rather than actual fishing.

I haven’t been since. Just not interested.

 

[RedAngie]

He brings home fresh fish and usually have plenty in the freezer. It's good but I tease it would be cheaper to buy at grocery.

I remember my uncle said something like if he tried to make a profit he’d have to charge $50 per pound for the fish he caught. And that was close to 50 years ago.

 

[snowwite]

I see and talk to a lot of people every day and I hear about all their activities. Since I see these people multiple times a week, month and year we get to know each other very well. Lately, there’s been an uptick with people fishing. I live close to Lake Michigan and people do fish on that lake, but most people are going to smaller lakes in other states. People, keep saying how they enjoy how relaxing and quiet this activity is. One said, and I quote….”I gets me away from human noise.” I will say that men talk about fishing more than women, but a lot of men say their wife or girlfriend go with them. So let’s talk about fishing today…..

Do you currently go fishing?
If yes…..are you a man or woman?
If no……did you used to go fishing?
Do you go for the fish, for the relaxation or both?
(multiple choice)



For Me…….Both my DH and I are not people that like to fish . We were not raised in families that do things in the great outdoors. We’ve both tried it, because so many other people enjoy it, and it’s not for us. I wish it was because it looks very relaxing, but I’m to much of a go go go go person, that I don’t have the patience to fish. I do enjoy eating the fish my neighbor catches at his yearly fish fry
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My parents and grandparents loved to fish and we have a lake camp so we used to fish. But we don’t enjoy gutting them so we don’t fish anymore. I did let the kids do it until they reached the age when you need a license.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

My grandma lived near a pond and we would fish when I was a kid, but I’ve never been fishing since and have no desire to go fishing now. It’s just not my thing.

 

[GAN]

Yes... I love fishing, but am usually busy most of the summer. I do manage to get out at least once or twice on friends boats. Pic from 3yrs ago added as a bonus(have some great video but don’t think we can post).....

 

[easyas123]

I don't mind fishing, but I have a strict rule for myself when it comes to hunting or fishing - if I'm not willing to do the dirty work (bait or gut a fish in this case) then I have no business fishing. That being said I often take a book and sit on the boat or dock while my husband fishes!
My husband and boys love to fish, in fact the kids had a boat custom made for bow fishing in LA a few years ago. I'll go crabbing.
We are fortunate to live on the water off the Chesapeake Bay so fishing and being on the water is a common experience for us.

 

[CynBeth]

I have never been fishing and have no desire to.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Fishing (mainly saltwater) is one of my dad's favorite hobbies, so it became one of our common activities while growing up. We almost always had a boat and they invested in a waterfront summer home so it was easier to go fishing whenever he wanted. I'll admit that I never did a ton of the work. I had a kiddie rod/reel combo for a while that made it easy to fish off of our dock or bulkhead, but I never quite managed the art of casting from a spinning reel and was much better suited to bottom fishing in the bay or jumping into the fighting chair when trolling out on the ocean. We even had several vacations where we hired charters to go fishing. An epic Key West trip was our first time bringing in really big stuff and my first time seeing a sailfish on the line. A few years ago, my dad sold the last of his boats because he no longer trusts himself (with his age) out on the water. They have started doing fun things like fishing at Disney to still have some fishing enjoyment.

While I believe Disney is catch and release, growing up, we ate what we caught if it wasn't a junk fish and it was regulation size for keepers. It was fun though, because all of our neighbors down the shore would often have cookouts and share our respective catches. One family may have gone out on the ocean and caught bluefish, stripers, and/or bonita (not the inedible kind- more like baby tuna)...someone else may have been bay fishing and caught a bunch of fluke...someone may have gone farther out for tuna...while others may have done things like crabbing or clamming and covered the shellfish angle. Our fish options drastically changed/improved when they moved to Florida. Things like grouper, mahi, and king mackerel (great for smoked fish salad) became the new norm. We even had one trip with the kids where my dad chummed the water to cause a feeding frenzy with bait fish over a reef area. It was a little parade of color