Have you ever caught a fish?

yup yup. mostly rainbows. trout that is. small rivers and streams near where i was living at the various times.
mostly with salmon eggs and hooks small enough to bury completely within them. no floats. split shot weights.
simplest possible poles and reels. sometimes found objects such as light but not too light branches. sometimes even without a reel.
just depends on where you are, how plentiful the fish, how hungry THEY are.
been to place where you could pull out the legal limit in less then an hour. i think one time it was less then a half hour.
but i have to admit that's extremely unusual to happen. and it works best when you're the only one there.
and fish from the side where your shadow doesn't touch the water, and be vewey vewey quiet.

 

There's no reeling. It's only nets. Looong long nets and working through them getting all the fish out, which we're both doing, isn't nothing..

 

oddly enough, reno has a ton of sushi joints. why this is odd is that we are more then 200 miles from the nearest ocean, and there are very few of them between here and it.

 

I’ve caught a lot of fish. Then one day it occurred to me that if I didn’t use bait I could drink more beer.

 

No. Never, ever.

 

I remember reading an article in the newspaper maybe 15 years ago that read "scientists have confirmed that fish feel pain" and I also remember, one of my friends dad had happened to read that same headline and he was all "oh gee Nah you think. Lemme say this, when I see a fish jump out of the water being pulled in I've never sat there and wondered if it could feel what was happening" lol.

 

They may feel pain, but I don't think they're like, "Why is this happening to me?! What about my family?!" Correct me if I'm mistaken, but fish don't really have the greatest memories. Whereas I think creatures like cows actually do have memories of loved ones as they're being put to death.

 

You gonna ignore that, rather than acknowledge your condescending tone was misplaced? : ) that gets to me, I can't deny it, I shouldn't care but I do. It hurt my feelings.

 

and as fish stories go, the next time you tell it after that, you caught a shark on luv's boat. then a whale.

 

Hmm?
I don't think you got my lopsided Sarcastic story so I never pressed on about it. I don't know what you're upset about though, I was clearly like making a girls did it better kinda story? It was in no way trying put anybody down with how they fished?

 

There is so much fish in the sea, none of which I can catch

 

Telling me how to tell my story next time, when it wasn't the scenario you seemed to think it was.

 

OK we'll im sorry you took that the way you did then..

 

How else would I take it? Helping on the boat is hard work and you making out I'm some dumb girl who doesn't know what she's talking about just seemed surprising. I know I'm being sensitive about it though : ) I just expected you might acknowledge you got it wrong.

 

Of course I got it wrong, the entire post was meant to have gotten it wrong there was no non fiction about it whatsoever. I honestly thought you'd get a laugh out of it.

I think you said weren't sure if it counted if you were handling nets and I was all on board to say that it is. Then I started making a comic script.

Whatever you read out of it, I'm sorry ay. I really thought you'd get a kick out of it.

 

Um. Okay, maybe I misread you.

I just didn't know if you realized there were no rods or reels involved, and I wasn't there doing some token job while the man did the real fishing.

Sorry if I got the tone wrong. Take it as a compliment that I clearly care what you think of me, haha.

 

I don't have any ill or malice thoughts about you Drifty. Nor would I think you're dumb for pulling in nets, or think it's not a hard job. It was more like you wondered if you'd caught the fish and I'm saying hell yes you caught that fish I dunno what anyone else was doing but you caught that fish. So my thing about changing the story was just so you didn't have to have any doubts anymore that you caught the fish. And then I made a comic book scenario up, in which I was envisioning you, my wife or myself or maybe even all 3 casting out fishing nets, I dunno. Well I laughed.

You don't have to worry about what I think though, I assure you.

 

fly fishing on these small creeks...

 

I fished for rainbow trout when I lived in Idaho. I had a friend with a smoker and when we had caught a mess of them he would smoke them all. Tasted kinda like kipper snacks.