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.

 

[amcnj]

My experiences were mostly when young, at local ponds and streams. And then once on one of those ocean going fishing boats as a young adult. Crabbing continued longer into middle adulthood.

But overall never was what I would call a serious fisherman, and can’t think of any family members who were. No all day or multi-day fishing trips, or anything like that.

 

[John VN]

Some good fishing in the past. Once drove 1.5hr to Jersey Shore with younger brother for a Half Night Atlantic Boat outing and before that we used to go crabbing when summer vacationing in Lavallette and caught Northern Puffer Fish that mom cooked up.

Gulf of Mexico for Snook, Flounder, Spotted Seatrout, Mackerel, Triple Tail, Grouper, Snapper, Sheepshead and Shrimp net dipping in DFIL's boat under of Full Moon with lights during an outgoing tide was fun and great eating. Netting mullet and having a friend prepare and smoke them was a treat and would also boat to some clean/productive oyster beds. A super COLD YUENGLING

Always was fishing for a meal and when the fish didn't meet size requirements back it went. Brought in a Spotted Trout once and let it go only to have an adult Bald Eagle grab it as it swam away. WAY COOL SIGHT 'cause I fed an Eagle.

 

[Micca]

I went fishing with my dad and uncle a couple of times when I was a kid, I was bored out of my mind. I think I caught a couple of small fish (perch?) it was dull as dishwater. I like to eat fish, but spending any time fishing is something I won't be doing again.No worries little friend, you're safe here with me.

 

[lovin'fl]

Grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. I have fished many times. Just for fun. My kids loved to fish whenever we'd be at my mom's house on the water so we would upon occasion but I was not as big a fan as an adult. So it's been at least 10-15 years since we last fished.

 

[snowwite]

I went fishing with my dad and uncle a couple of times when I was a kid, I was bored out of my mind. I think I caught a couple of small fish (perch?) it was dull as dishwater. I like to eat fish, but spending any time fishing is something I won't be doing again.No worries little friend, you're safe here with me.

Fish are friends not food

 

[mikehn]

The only fishing I enjoy these days is big game fishing. I like the adrenaline rush and the sound of line peeling from your reel. Fish On, bzzzzzzzz.

 

[design_mom]

I used to fish with my dad all the time. I enjoyed it then. We did catch and release (I don't like to eat fish and my mom does not like to clean fish, so back into the lake they'd go.)

I haven't been fishing since I got married though (almost 30 years now). My husband is not an outdoorsy type and my parents sold their boat. I rarely have the opportunity to fish anymore (and when I do, it's not really enough of an opportunity to warrant buying a fishing license.)