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Re: Go Fishing

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Post by thermalgobshite »

vram22 wrote: post #29
clay_the_ripper wrote: post #10

I think the author that captures fishing best is Hemingway. If you’ve never fished, or never quite got why fishing might be enjoyable, I’d highly recommend ‘Islands In The Stream” by Hemingway, or his collection of short stories “Hemingway on fishing”. He does an amazing job of making the reader “feel” what it feels like to fish. Fishing is all about how it makes you feel (IMO). It’s less about the technical aspects…

Another interesting book about fishing by Hemingway is "The Old Man and The Sea". I read it as a teenager. Googled it now because of your comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea Only now did I get to know this about it - from the Wikipedia article: [ The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952.[1] It was the las…

A book I love (and that's saying something because I never got the whole love of reading) is "The Young Man and the Sea". I have no idea the author or relation to Hemingways work, as I've never read "The Old Man and the Sea".

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by gadders »

bambax wrote: post #70

> One thing that keeps many people from fishing is the simple fact that they have never done it. Indeed, I think it is probably the only reason I have tried fishing a few times, and found that it isn't for me. I'm extremely bad at it. The whole setup is very clumsy and difficult to transport by anything but a car, and it's all quite boring. If the point is sitting on a chair in nature while reading or having a beer t…

"Fishing" isn't really one thing. There are a lot of different kinds to try. My preferred kind is fly fishing for trout. You are constantly casting and retrieving so unless you're in a boat there is no sitting down, and being able to cast is an art in itself.

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by veli_joza »

nurettin wrote: post #56
hashkb wrote: post #21

> One thing that keeps many people from fishing is the simple fact that they have never done it. Indeed, I think it is probably the only reason, apart from vegetarianism. (If you do not eat meat or otherwise object to taking the lives of gill-bearing aquatic craniates, there is always catch-and-release.) Fishing is one of the cruelest things I can imagine doing to an animal. The closest way I can put it to a human is…

Is it ok if other animals do it?

The "ok" doesn't exist, just moral/ethical standards we set for ourselves. We could go by nature's standards but we can also do better (social care is nice to have).

The practice of taking lives for pastime doesn't sit well with my ethical beliefs for two reasons: the first is empathy for another creature, and the other is I'm uncomfortable with destroying something so complex for no real benefit to me. It's like a child destroying sand castles others have built, amplified thousand times.

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by gadders »

colordrops wrote: post #49

I spent a lot of time fishing as a child, as my father was an avid fisherman. Some of my best memories are of stream and lake fishing in the Sierras, tuna fishing off boats in Cabo, and bass fishing of the coast near Del Mar. And yet I can't get myself to do it as an adult, even though I have two young children who I know would love it. It's with very mixed emotion that I decide not to go. My social circle finds fish…

In terms of humaneness, I would say catching your own fish compares favourably with trawling and similar methods. I think fish there are mostly left to suffocate or freeze after being hauled up and chucked into the boat's hold.

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by naibafo »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #22

I grew up fishing, skateboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, playing baseball, playing in bands and generally getting into trouble as a younger man. I still surf and skate and wakeboard from time to time and I'm generally amazed at how friendly, welcoming and uncompetitive anglers are. I very rarely encounter any "get off my wave" type attitudes, it's mostly people asking how it's going or telling me what bait is and isn…

Did you have regular "get off my wave" encounters surfing or skating?

My surfing experience is a bit limited, but barring a few wannabee edgy teens "friendly, welcoming and uncompetitive" very much describes my experience with skaters everywhere.

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by wj »

cloudkj wrote: post #59

I've been fishing for a few years and learned mostly on my own by scouring forums plus lots of trial and error. I've always likened the draw to be similar to the problem solving nature of programming and engineering in general, and have always wondered if there are other engineers that enjoy fishing. From some of the comments here it looks like there are some, but not many. I've actually created several pieces of fis…

I owned a domain for a couple of years with the intent to crawl Flickr for fishing photos and to link them on a map. Never got around to it though. A shame as I feel like it would have got me fishing more often.

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by icantdrive55 »

colordrops wrote: post #49

I spent a lot of time fishing as a child, as my father was an avid fisherman. Some of my best memories are of stream and lake fishing in the Sierras, tuna fishing off boats in Cabo, and bass fishing of the coast near Del Mar. And yet I can't get myself to do it as an adult, even though I have two young children who I know would love it. It's with very mixed emotion that I decide not to go. My social circle finds fish…

"I do not take offense to anyone else fishing for sport, so forgive me if my comment sounds judgmental, as that is not my intent."

1. This is a website. Stand by your convictions. There's too many people here kissing ass for no reason. Do I care about my Karma--f--no. Do I care about being hellbanned--no. Like any hacker can't get around a hellband?

2. I'm in the same boat as you, but times are different. We have decimated most fish populations. Even in the Sierras, the fishing is terrible. Lot's of insects. Lot's of crystal clear water, but no fish? Or, at least not the fish I remember as a kid.

3. My last time fishing was on the bay. I caught a Batray. I pulled it to shore. My buddy said, it's crying like a baby. I let it go, and that was my last day of fishing.

4. And I'll go farther--I am keeping score on which ethnicities are raping the waters the most, and trying not to do business with them.

Re: Go Fishing

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Post by nurettin »

veli_joza wrote: post #73
nurettin wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it ok if other animals do it?

The "ok" doesn't exist, just moral/ethical standards we set for ourselves. We could go by nature's standards but we can also do better (social care is nice to have). The practice of taking lives for pastime doesn't sit well with my ethical beliefs for two reasons: the first is empathy for another creature, and the other is I'm uncomfortable with destroying something so complex for no real benefit to me. It's like a c…

A lot of people need fishing to survive (I've done it while living at a shore village near armutlu) so I'm not sure how imagining being shot into space via a hook solves that problem.

Sounds more like first world problems.

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