Fishin'

[pdub]

When we had our house in South Carolina, we we on a small lake, 20 or so acres of water.

It was such a neat thing to come home from work, walk out in the back yard and go fishing. Or go for a boat ride. Ever so slow, the electric Jon boat.

And fishing. Bass, bream, crappie, they were all in there. We had so many fish in the freezer....

But the fishing. We lived there about three years before we got moved here on the mainland of Tennessee.

First year on the lake we fished our selves silly. The novelty of it. I could hit a snail between the eyes 20 yards away with a Zebco rod and reel.

After that first year we quit fishing. We got over it. It was entirely too much work to gather up the energy to get the rods and cut the bait or put the worms on the hook and then if you caught anything, you have to do something with it. Folks would ask me, "Don't you FISH?" and I'd say, "No, I'm afraid I might CATCH one."

The point being....well, there is no point. Well, yeah there is..whatever you think might be great might be great for a little while but when you get used to it it's not so great anymore.

Does that make any sense?

[Ron Ward]

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Yup. It makes total sense.


I need to put some new line on my Curado....


Y'all got wipers (hybrid bass) in Tennessee?


Ron

[truckpuller]

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Fishing with poles isnt near as much fun as hand fishing, oh what a rush....

[Ron Ward]

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Fishing with poles isnt near as much fun as hand fishing, oh what a rush....

I have contemplated noodling, but I just can't get past the fact that we have ginormous snapping turtles here. I like my fingers attached as they are.


Hey, Peewee... Fishing in a different hole occasionally will keep it from becoming monotonous or boring. Such is the case with so many things in life. ;D


Ron

[truckpuller]

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One thing you have to remember, as long as the hole goes down you are ok, as soon as it starts going up you need to exit immediately, if the hole goes down, it is full of water, hence no snakes, turtles or beavers...

[Ron Ward]

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Man, I hadn't even considered a beaver. Snapping turtles are bad enought, but a snapping beaver?

One might lose an entire appendage...


Ron

[truckpuller]

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A friend of mine pulled a 42lb flathead out of a hole this summer, the summer before another friend of mine had his foot bitten through by a beaver stomping on a bunch of logs in the river trying to get a bigun out of them trees, the incident rate is really low tho, he is the only one i know of who has been bitten, if you have a good teacher that goes a long ways.....

[Ron Ward]

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Seth, I noticed in your signature you are from SW Iowa... Near Council Bluffs?


Ron

[truckpuller]

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Bout an hour south, town called New Market

[Ron Ward]

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So... about half way between St Joe and Omaha?

Let's get this ice off the danged lakes and catch some fish!


Ron

[truckpuller]

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Im game, im still a novice, the fishing doesnt pick up until the end of june around here, i have a few friends that can show you the ropes alot better than me.

[studemax]

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PeeWee - you must be saddest fellow in history if you got bored with fishing!
Or maybe you missed the point of fishing - it ain't about the catching....
Although I do love me some fried catfish.

[Ron Ward]

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Oh yeah! With fried taters and cole slaw!


Man, I am ready for lunch! LOL!


Ron

[Thumpin455]

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My father in law runs charter fishing on a lake up here, ya might have heard of it since its supposed to be famous or something. Cant see the other side and some big ore boat sank on it back in 75. Never liked fish until I moved up here, Nebraska fishing is like eating mud and its pretty boring, but Michigan fishing is different, heck you can see the bottom of the lake 100ft down. A 16 yr old kid pulled up a 36lb lake trout back in 07 on one of his boats. Biggest one I have gotten was 11lbs. Good eatin between 8-11lbs. The big ones are too fatty but they look nice mounted.

Here's some pics of the lake, it gets big waves in the winter.




Come on up and go fishin with us.

[pdub]

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This was our setup in South Carolina. That's Unit out on the pier.



Yeah, it is "sad" that we got tired of fishing - I would have never predicted it. But it's kinda like an old buddy of mine who wondered what porn stars want to do when they come home from work in the evening. Whaddaya want to do tonight? I dunno - let's go bowling. Too much of anything can be too much, I reckon.

And as pretty as this photo looks, that piece of ground was the lowest spot in all of Lancaster County. For six months out of the year you could not walk out in the yard or the gumpy muck would pull the shoes off of your feet. We had ducks swimming in the back yard in the winter. Literally. They would come out of the lake and play in the puddles in the back yard.

There were about 50 trees on the lot. So every fall, we got this - three times before it was over and done with:



Plus I was working on the road all the time. I was away all week and would go home on the weekend and was way behind on yard work when I got there. Unit was not at all able to do it all by herself. It was too much for one person, just about too much for two.

I don't miss it.