Fishing

[nicebloke1]

Would be interested on your veiw / opinion on the sport / passtime of fishing/ Angling.

[sandyRoe]

It's a great day out in the fresh country air.  

When I went fishing I was never a threat to the fish population and the few Pike and Perch I caught were returned to the water.

[Cloverjo]

My dad used to go sea fishing and took me with him once. I found it very dull and cold, and never went again. 
I'm surprised it's considered a sport. 
 

[gulliver1]

You could always ask a few of your stalkers nicebloke, they all talk a load of codswallop.

[nicebloke1]

Cloverjo 11.23. I do very little sea fishing,like a lot of things its very expensive to hire a boat and skipper. I do inland coarse fishing, rivers, lakes, pools.

[Arrods]

Used to go fishing as a schoolboy.  It seems to have got very technical now.  The 'professional' anglers even use remote controlled boats to deliver groundbait in the right spot.

P.S. I thought for a minute that gulliver was going to add something sensible to the OP - but some things never change.

[Old_Geezer]

Have tried it once or twice as a kid. Never caught anything with the "Noddy" rod I was loaned to join in. (At one time the rod even disconnected into two as I cast, the end piece hitting the water.) Didn't like sticking the hook through the maggot either. So unimpressed both as a spectator and as a participator.

[barry1010]

Used to go mackerel fishing, which you can't class as a sport.  Lots of fisher people on the canals and lakes where I live, don't see the point of that. My friends trap crayfish in the canal and eat them - that's worthwhile because they are usually invasive, non-native species that threaten the environment.

I have been fly fishing for salmon in Scotland but I am rubbish at that, although it's a nice way to spend a day.

Can't see the point of fishing for trout in a farmed lake.

In my view a day by the water is never wasted, fishing or not

 

[nicebloke1]

Arrods 11.48. Its not technical at all, it may look like it if you listen to all the marketing rubbish. The bait boats you talk about are stupid and are already coming to the end of there life. People who have paid anywhere from £400 to £800  for them cant give them away now. Plus the amount of bait they've delivering is helping polute the water, the uneaten food stays on the bottom rotting, fish want fresh food same as we do, little and offten, not half a kilo at a time, and thats only one angler, another one will follow him the same day or the day after, so just think how much food could be lying on ghe bottom, not good at all. Plus you are reducing your chances of catching putting that much food in. Keep em hungry is the way to go.

 

Barry. I don't fish farmed pools or any commercial pools. If your going to fo that you may as well stick you hook line into a garden pond. Farmed/ commercial pools are a bit like hooking ducks at the fair.

[bhg481]

It's never appealed to me, even when a kid with a fishing net. As an adult I class it as pitting your wits against a fish and generally losing.

[nicebloke1]

Generally losing is what makes it more exciting when you do catch, you never know when thats going to happen. But the more you persist the better you get at it. Its all about how you present the bait and how much you present and you tend to find out where to present it on the water your fishing, and most important what bait for that water. And you dont need all this top of the range gear to do it. The only expensive gear i invested in was a very comfortable chair.

[davebro3]

How would you feel with a hook in your lip & being dragged into somewhere you couldn't breathe by a huge alien?

[youngmafbog]

Probably love it Davebro

I reckon the only fishing nicebloke does is on these pages.

[nicebloke1]

12.34 You mean like those factory ships out at sea with a trawler net thats about 10mile long and catches about 40 ton of cod at a time that cant breath, and you like many others sit down and enjoy eating. Now your going to tell me you dont eat fish. Ha ha <:0)))))

[davebro3]

Yeah but you inflict the horror & the pain for your own pleasure - not for food... sadist.

[Canary42]

Surely your self-esteem must be pretty low if you get a boost from outwitting a fish.  Think about it please, for the sake of the tortured fishes.

[Atheist]

Any omnivores here ever visited an abattoir?

[Canary42]

Irrelevant Atheist, we're talking about doing it for sport, not sustenance.

[gulliver1]

11.48 Pathetic answer.  **Could do better**

[nicebloke1]

It looks like most have no real problem then with the sport of fishing. Thanks for all the feed back.

[davebro3]

ask the fish if it's "sport" 🙄