Just want to hear everyones fishing stories. I've been doing a lot of fishing with my grandpa lately, I've gotten into it so much I've convinced my grandpa to buy a small fishing boat.
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Just want to hear everyones fishing stories. I've been doing a lot of fishing with my grandpa lately, I've gotten into it so much I've convinced my grandpa to buy a small fishing boat.
I kid you not.
I haven't gone fishing a whole lot, but I have a few times. The first time I was on a boat, and I caught a big-mouth bass, which was pretty cool =) A couple of summers ago, I went with my friend to a camp. I didn't catch any fish when we went fishing on the beach, but when we fished off the dock, I caught like ten! One of them I caught by putting a piece of bread on the hook! (That usually didn't work because the bread would dissolve, lol.) We threw all our fish back into the water, but it was lots of fun. =D
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the men create gods and they worship their creations. It would have been more
appropriate for the gods to worship mankind!"
--Gospel of Philip 92 (Author Unknown)
Formerly moonglow
I think I forgot to tell you about the time I went fishing with my dad and got hooked in that area of skin between my thumb and first finger. He had to cut the barb off so he could pull it out without causing more damage...man did that ever hurt!
I think this is now why I feel sorry for fish...
(how is that for a fishing story?)
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
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I grew up fishing with my dad too and I got caught by the angler too. it hurts so bad.Originally Posted by moonglow
...man did that ever hurt!
As for my fishing story, i went to the lake about a month ago and got cut on my feet and fingers by these invasive quagga mussels. I got attacked by a baby striper fish who had an attitude and didn't want me swimming by him. & my dad ended up catching all the fish.
Esperando En Ti.
Get on my horse.
One of my parents friends from church when I was younger was a sailboat builder and naturally had his own. And we were often invited to go out for a weekend or two in the summer (this was all saltwater). The usual way for the adults to keep me occupied was to hand me a fishing rod while they chatted or sat in the sun. That did not work out well one time. We stopped in a small bay and tied up against a log boom. My sisters went swimming and the rest relaxed. I fished and promptly caught a flounder (good fight for a fairly small fish). Then I caught a rock cod. Later we moved on to another bay. We were sending my line out again when another boat passed and mentioned that there were no fish around here. Despite that I promptly caught two decent sized Ling cods. A pretty good day.
But for excitement, hooking and bringing in a salmon (coho) is probably the most exhilarating fishing I've done. Good fight, beautiful fish, and later, good eating.
A friend of mine has had the pleasure of fishing at a lodge in the Queen Charlotte Islands (now officially called Haida Gwaii). The caught their limit everyday - salmon (I think the biggest was 42 pounds), red snapper, ling and rock cod, halibut, etc. Lots of fish up that way.
It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth… He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in Ethics.
We were 13, I knew how to handle a rod, reel and tackle because there was a big pond bordering my neighborhood. I didn't know that he didn't. So we went fishing. He tied a Rapala onto his line and cast. Unfortunately on the first cast all three of those 3 prongs hooks sank into the back of his head. He was screaming all the way home and his mom took him to the hospital.
Never got my lure back either.
Until you've lost all faith in humanity you will be forever blind.
Formerly moonglow
Ew,,,ow! That sounds awful. Poor kid..
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
Yeah, those lures cost a kids ransom in allowance back then.
Until you've lost all faith in humanity you will be forever blind.
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