Fishing

[Smithy]

Do you like Fishing?
River/canal fishing or sea fishing?

I have a few friends who love sea fishing I have been asking to go out one day in the sea to see what fish they catch.
Sea fishing seems more exciting than river/canal fishing

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I love fishing, and have fished ever since I was a kid growing up. Mostly, my folks went to high mountain lakes and we fished for trout (which are delicious to eat), but after i grew up and got married, we also fished in rivers as well as some of the inlets on the west coast of Washington State.
My kids all enjoy fishing also, and it was one of the things we did a lot when they were growing up.

I have never fished out in the ocean, but my brother-in-law took us out into Puget Sound (near Seattle) where we did catch some saltwater fish. The waves are a lot worse when you are saltwater fishing, and when we got back home that night, I was really dizzy and nauseated from being in the boat all day, not to mention a bad sunburn.
It was a good experience, but i prefer a lake or river instead. We do not fish anymore, so now i just watch people catching fish on YouTube videos instead.

 

[Don Alaska]

Lots of fishing done here. We used to go saltwater fishing, mostly for halibut, when we had children at home. We also fish for salmon, trout and other fish here. Now is the ime to consider the smelt runs, which are small fish that migrate up the rivers to spawn every spring. They are very oily fish and we only eat one meal of them a year if we catch them. They are caught in dip nets. The salmon will begin in May or June with Kings (Chinook) first, followed by Reds (Sockeye), Pinks (Humpys), Chum (Dog), and Silver (Coho). We fished with drift nets in the Bush Alaska, but that is not legal in this area, so rod and reel of some type is used except in subsistence areas (Alaska residents only) where dip nets are used. The fishing rules here are quite complicated in fresh water, so that takes some of the fun out of it. Wife and I are both over 65 years now, so we can have our children do our fishing and hunting for us as we aren't really able to do much except light rod and reel fishing. We have to sign a proxy to give them our fishing and hunting rights and limits.

 

[Joe Riley]

Happy "Fish Day" on April 1st!

 

[Sheryl]

^^^^^ That would probably have been my husband. Especially if there was a big fish in the net, ^^^^^^

My brother and SIL & my husband and I used to have a place near Swan Quarter, NC. We fished out on the Pamlico Sound. We caught a wide variety of fish. My husband's health finally got so bad that we had to give up fishing. We sold boat and everything but the tackle.

The most scared I have ever been in my life was out on the sound. When you go way out, there are no landmarks, only water, so distance is hard to judge. A cloud you see might be a long distance away or closer by. We were sitting there, not paying a lot of attention to the clouds. There were a few in the distance but nothing to worry about. Then, suddenly a waterspout popped up at what looked like a half mile from our boats. It was headed right at us! We got everything into the boat as fast as we could and headed back toward the landing at full speed. I tell everybody that I put my foot out and paddled to make more speed. The waterspout followed us for a few minutes then dissipated.

We (family) have a place down on the Pungo River now. We have a pontoon boat, but it is so big and hard to handle that we hardly ever use it. We are trying to sell it. We fish from piers or the riverbank. So, if I'm gone for a few days at a time, I'll likely be ♫down by the riverside♫.

 

[Joe Riley]

^^^^^ That would probably have been my husband. Especially if there was a big fish in the net, ^^^^^^

My brother and SIL & my husband and I used to have a place near Swan Quarter, NC. We fished out on the Pamlico Sound. We caught a wide variety of fish. My husband's health finally got so bad that we had to give up fishing. We sold boat and everything but the tackle.

The most scared I have ever been in my life was out on the sound. When you go way out, there are no landmarks, only water, so distance is hard to judge. A cloud you see might be a long distance away or closer by. We were sitting there, not paying a lot of attention to the clouds. There were a few in the distance but nothing to worry about. Then, suddenly a waterspout popped up at what looked like a half mile from our boats. It was headed right at us! We got everything into the boat as fast as we could and headed back toward the landing at full speed. I tell everybody that I put my foot out and paddled to make more speed. The waterspout followed us for a few minutes then dissipated.

We (family) have a place down on the Pungo River now. We have a pontoon boat, but it is so big and hard to handle that we hardly ever use it. We are trying to sell it. We fish from piers or the riverbank. So, if I'm gone for a few days at a time, I'll likely be ♫down by the riverside♫.

 

[Sheryl]

I assume that cup is filled with coffee.