slo’s WEDNESDAY 8/27 poll - Fishing 🎣

[TippyThomas]

I've tried it a handful of times, but it just bores me to tears. I tried it in different settings, with different people and different seasons. I think fishing just must not be for me.

 

[evilmommie]

Yes, we fish. Mainly catch and release these days. My husband had a boat before he had a car. So being on the water will always be part of our lifestyle. We currently have a dauntless Boston Whaler.

 

[Moliphino]

I have no interest in fishing or eating fish.

 

[disneychrista]

I fished once that I can remember as a child during a Girl Scout camping trip. As adult I have never fished and will likely never fish. I don’t eat fish & catch and release seems mean.

 

[soccerdad72]

I usually go once or twice a year. It's not really my thing, but when I get invited by others, I usually go along.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I grew up fishing. I don’t do it as much these days but still go occasionally. I prefer ocean fishing to freshwater but fly fishing the salmon run in Alaska with my dad was a bucket list item! My dad and DH go regularly mostly batch and release.

 

[Marionette]

DH and I use to enjoy catch and release fishing before he became disabled. For me it was more about siting quietly together in a canoe or just having simple conversation. It wasn't so much the fishing for me. I would just leave my line in the water and relax. we haven't been in years now.

 

[_19disnA]

Agree with some others, recall going fishing a few times while growing up. Just seemed incredibly boring and pointless to me. Much rather do just about anything else when outdoors. If you want to catch fish to eat is one thing, but the idea that some just throw them back didn't seem to make much sense to me.

 

[tvguy]

Fishing was something I did every time I visited my family in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. But probably has been at least 15 years. As far as here at home, probably been close to 60 years. To be honest, the $62.90 annual fee seems excessive locally.

 

[fla4fun]

I like fish. I like them swimming happily in their natural habitat. I do not like to eat fish, and I am not going to do catch and release. So fishing is not for me.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I fished with my dad and brother when we were kids, (I was probably 12 or so and younger) when we went to the Wisconsin lakes (yearly alternating between Lake Geneva and Lake Delavan) vacations. We usually stayed in cabins, like detached motel units back then. The three of us did quite a bit of fishing over the 7-10 days we would be there. We would catch them, bring them back 'home'. My mom would prep and filet them and we'd have for dinner. Mostly lake perch, crappie, blue gills. My dad caught a walleye a few times.
As I got older, had no interest in fishing, My son Vince has a good interest in fishing and he and one of his boys, Griffin, enjoy going out to one of the local lakes near them and doing a day of fishing.