fishing?

Anyone here like to fish?

I usually have a pole in the trunk of my car and some tackle, just in case I decide to kill some time down by the river.

I like fish and I like catching fish, but sometimes I don't really give a damn.....I just enjoy hanging out, outside, next to a lake or river.

I've had a pretty good year, caught a dozen or so trout, a couple of steelhead....although I had to throw them both back because they were natives....two spring chinook, and four summer shinook. Been trying to get a coho, but no luck so far.

 

Nope. I'd love to and if I lived in Oregon I probably would. Used to fish as a kid there.

But its all about the Rainbow Trout Farm on the way to Mount Hood.

 

Ever go fishing high?

 

That goes hand-in-hand with fishing.

 

You pretty much have to be high on alcohol, pot or acid to make sitting in a boat silently for hours fun.

 

Exactly.

 

man, where i live you kinda have too..

City of Sails

 

you aren't married are you?

 

Nope. But I am engaged.

 

sorry, doesn't count.

 

I know, yo. That's why I said "Nope."

Out of curiosity, how does being married relate to my comment?

 

get married.

wait ten years.

you will know the answer.

 

I love fishing, and like ucatch typically have my gear in the truck. Fishing is 95% clearing your mind of the clutter of life and 5% actually fishing. Personally I'm all about river fishing for Trout there's a strange science to it. Learning how to read currents and surrounding terrain, color and clarity of the water, ambient or direct light water them etc..etc...

Then there's the guys who like to sit in a boat and watch a pole.

And yes being married can play into it.

 

Thanks Petey.

 

exactly.

its not about the destination.... its the journey.


btw.... i typically fish off the bank. but when we use my buddies boat we always troll, cover more water that way, and catch more fish than the guys just sitting there.

 

You live in Auckland? Great town, although I spent more time in Wellington.

 

Whoa, what the fuck? I clicked edit, instead of quote on Minstrel's post, and it like... I dunno.

Anyway, congrats Minstrel.

 

Thanks!

 

I'm with you. I am/was an early morning fishman who works the streams. Always had my gear in the car. My favorite is to hike to a mountain lake and fish the streams and lakes where no one else is around.

It's more about being out there, take life a little slower and enjoy god's country.

Lately I don't go fishing around Ptd so much. I always seem to catch small ones in the Clackamas river . . and ever since I've been fishing in Lake Tahoe area where I get trophy size trout here and there (and event the smaller ones are bigger than what I get here) I stop fishing locally. (I get my fishing fix by fishing seven staight days in Tahoe).

I really want to learn how to steelhead fish, but I haven't found the time. It sounds like a blast.