Its Spring, and I don't like fishing.

Kyle Hauck

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I know a lot of guys that love fishing but that's not me. Hear me out on the subject at hand.

Fishing, I grew up fishing in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming where we would throw worms on fly fishing rods and walk the streams. I've done a fair share of lake fishing with friends, ice fishing, etc, but I don't like fishing!
I like walking the streams, I like being on the water, but I don't like fishing!
Now I won't say no to going fishing if my boys ask me to, or if a friend needs a companion, but I don't like fishing!
I plan on fishing in the Caribbean when we are there next year because I feel like its a requirement for the experience but I don't like fishing!
I love eating seafood and all types of fish! I crave some fresh fish all the time, but I don't like fishing!
I can hunt all day, not be successful, and be super happy, but if i'm fishing and not catching, I get pissed off. I don't like fishing!
I guess overall I'm really busy in the summer and I don't want to be on the ice in the winter so.....I don't like fishing!
 
I gave up fishing after working for the fisheries division, it just seemed way to boring.

I?ll go a few times a year, (cat-fishing is fun because it?s just basically drinking beers).

But ever since I got into spearfishing that?s all I want to do, it?s even more fun than duck hunting (at least in CT, duck hunting out in OR/WA has been unreal).

I think you guys in SD can shoot non game fish and pike/walleye. I would highly recommend trying it out, then definitely do it in the Caribbean. Blasting some hogfish, groupers, and grabbing some crays would be unreal.


I bet you would move to the salt after that!
 
Fishing does not compare at all to hunting in my opinion
But fly fishing for trout does have its special place in me. If I go fishing for anything I usually have my fly rod because if I can catch a bass or bream on a fly then I feel so much more satisfied than If I had a worm on a bobber.
 
To each their own...

Maybe if more people didn't like fishing, the waters wouldn't be so crowded and we wouldn't have to deal with "googans" in our fishing holes (and don't even get me started on the boat ramps around scalloping seasons) and it would leave more of these beauties for us to fish for without all the extra hassle of all those other people

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but alas....fishing is wonderful and well loved by many people (myself included) so I just gotta deal with sharing the water with all those other people

BUUUUUUUUT I'm not sure I'd feel as much love for fishing if there was more ice under my feet than in my drink.
 
Dani -

Well said.

The only ice I like is in my drink.

Many a time fishing has shown me new places to hunt.

I cannot imagine life without fishing.


Best regards
Vince
 
Dani, that?s another reason I like spearfishing. There are way less people under the water than on top of it!
 
This is a humorous thread starter. I'm not sure Kyle isn't talking tongue in cheek.

There's nothing wrong with liking only fishing or only hunting.

But I enjoy doing both, even on the same trip.

One of my favorite dual adventures was alternating days of duck hunting in the UP of Michigan and then steelhead fishing in the St. Mary's rapids where if you ain't real careful you will float your hat in water that looks two feet deep but is actually five feet deep.

This summer, after I retire to the Raleigh area, I look forward to combo trips of duck hunting on the OBX and also learning to fish at the Oregon Inlet or in the spring trout fishing in the Blue Ridge combined with turkey hunting.

I'll take both until the day I can't.

Larry
 
Larry, my brother loves fishing at Jennettes pier catching blues and croakers

I've yet to go out there with him since I have little kids and more hobbies than he and his wife do.

Don't get me wrong I love fly fishing but if I had a choice I'd go duck hunting over fly fishing. In fact duck hunting is something that keeps me here in the coastal plains instead of in the blue ridge fly fishing for trout.
 
Chris Finch said:
But ever since I got into spearfishing that?s all I want to do, it?s even more fun than duck hunting (at least in CT, duck hunting out in OR/WA has been unreal).

I've spearfished just a little and I could see it being completely addicting. It's hunting, underwater, with many targets. I loved it. Unfortunately NY, where I live, made spearfishing illegal, even for invasives such as carp.
 
Larry Eckart said:
This is a humorous thread starter. I'm not sure Kyle isn't talking tongue in cheek.

There's nothing wrong with liking only fishing or only hunting.

But I enjoy doing both, even on the same trip.

One of my favorite dual adventures was alternating days of duck hunting in the UP of Michigan and then steelhead fishing in the St. Mary's rapids where if you ain't real careful you will float your hat in water that looks two feet deep but is actually five feet deep.

This summer, after I retire to the Raleigh area, I look forward to combo trips of duck hunting on the OBX and also learning to fish at the Oregon Inlet or in the spring trout fishing in the Blue Ridge combined with turkey hunting.

I'll take both until the day I can't.

Larry

Larry, our rule of thumb was always, if you can see bottom in a hole in the Canadian side rapids...it is still too deep! I have been involved in two rescues of folks who stepped too deep there; both very luckily successful. Scariest time over there was fishing atlantic salmon while standing on the diversion wall that separates the inner and outer rapids up by the trash gates under the International bridge. John Guliani had located an atlantic around twenty pounds holding up there while we fished downriver in the pouring rain near the Crane pool. We were standing on the wall apron on the river side making drifts to this fish, with the water behind us racing by at four to five feet per second. Mike and I were alternating our offerings, one retying while the other worked the three fish holding in that small hole. Twice I saw its mouth open white on a drift...each time I set the hook prematurely. Mike hooked one of the smaller males on a drift. I counted as the fish jumped four times while he was reeling like mad trying to get tight to it! I scratched my Nautilus up quite a bit fishing each spring over there. We did best back trolling smelt imitation streamers in the powerhouse discharge chutes, at the base of the rapids and downstream on the American side around the islands just upstream from the Sugar Island ferry dock.

Did you ever fish the salmon run up on the upper reaches of the Garden River, up off the Ranger Lake road. We would access via Crown Land on a woods road a couple of miles past a mom and pop resort that had the two railroad boxcars and log cabin lodge as housing. That was where we were staying when the September 11 attacks occurred, stranding us in Canada for nearly a week extra.

Did you duck hunt the upper river or Munuscong when you were there? I used to trap a lot of the small rivers and creeks between Barbeau and the Sault, shooting wood ducks, gadwall, mallards and blacks off them as well when I lived at MSU's Dunbar Forest Research Unit. Fisheries and Wildlife rented it from Forestry for six years when we were conducting the Winter Navigation NEPA study for the USFWS/ USACE.
 
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But I enjoy doing both, even on the same trip.

Me too. Some favorites are tailing redfish and clapper rail trips in September and October. Since I began gator hunting, I've always wanted to do a gator hunt (sort of kind of fishing) and teal season hunt. Haven't yet, mainly because I am usually in Montana at that time but I'm sure it'll happen someday.

As I said, to each their own. It's what makes the world go round. I mean geez.....people actually LIKE basketball....can you imagine?
 
My problem is I love it all. I've been to remote lakes in Canada, Fished Alaska for Salmon, Fished Lousianna for reds and specks, Fished in rivers in Africa for tiger fish and crazy huge bream with Hippos and monster crocs too close. Fished bass in Texas in alligator infested ponds, trolled the great lakes for Kings, fished spawning salmon in upper NY, Fished the St Lawrence for huge smallies and Northerns, grew up fishing for weak fish and flounder on the Jersey coast, had a few good years of striped bass fishing, caught Tuna, Mahi, Bonito in Mexico.
Funny thing is when I'm fishing I'm always scoping out the birds. I have been duck and goose hunting in Sonorra Mexico, Arkansas, Texas, Tennesee, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia and soon in South Dakota. I love meeting new people and trying local foods. I hunt with a professional chef who makes every trip a culinary delight. Man I've been blessed.
 
Rick (correct name?) for RLL,
Ah! I felt like I was walking in your story myself. I have fished there with John Giuliani and walked on that wall. I was fortunate to catch steelhead inside the wall and outside the wall. When Hemingway, in the 1920's, called the St. Mary's Rapids, "the best trout fishing in America" (not exact quote), he should have also said, "one of the most dangerous places to fish in America."

While I did not fish the Garden River as you said, I have been there just after the pink run and seen the left over carcasses.

Munuscong Bay also was a place we frequented... after the zoo of opening day.

Perhaps you know a buddy of mine in SSM: Tom Pink?

I hope your snow is melted by the 4th of July!

Larry
 

Cast & Blast adventures have always been favorites of mine.

Equipment for both requires a larger vehicle, and proper storage, which is no problem.


Theft of the equipment that is left in the vehicle while doing one, and not the other is a growing problem these days.

So I don't do the combination as often as I used to.

Lots of unsavory characters hunting for vehicles they can break into, and the further beck in ya are the better they like it.
 
I will allow myself to fish for a cast and blast. A South Dakota triple slam is on my bucket list. You might ask what exactly that is, well.....It would be a South Dakota thing, I believe it was coined by Benny Spies.

It is a limit of Ducks, Pheasant, and Walleye all in a single day. Perhaps this November I will try it. I will be hiring a guide service for the walleye portion.

Vince Pagliaroli said:
Cast & Blast adventures have always been favorites of mine.

Equipment for both requires a larger vehicle, and proper storage, which is no problem.


Theft of the equipment that is left in the vehicle while doing one, and not the other is a growing problem these days.

So I don't do the combination as often as I used to.

Lots of unsavory characters hunting for vehicles they can break into, and the further beck in ya are the better they like it.

I really don't like fishing, for real. I am excited about spring turkey for SURE!!!! I currently have 5 tags and I hope to harvest them all with my bow. I've actually never shot a turkey with a shotgun.


Tom V said:
Kyle

So tell me how you really feel about fishing?

Once I started turkey hunting I gave up on spring time fishing also.
 
Jeff, Whereabouts in South Dakota are you hunting at? Curious to here about that. Also I noticed you don't have Saskatchewan on your list of places you have hunted ducks. I may know a guy....... [;)] www.highprairieoutfitters.com


Jeff Fenerty said:
My problem is I love it all. I've been to remote lakes in Canada, Fished Alaska for Salmon, Fished Lousianna for reds and specks, Fished in rivers in Africa for tiger fish and crazy huge bream with Hippos and monster crocs too close. Fished bass in Texas in alligator infested ponds, trolled the great lakes for Kings, fished spawning salmon in upper NY, Fished the St Lawrence for huge smallies and Northerns, grew up fishing for weak fish and flounder on the Jersey coast, had a few good years of striped bass fishing, caught Tuna, Mahi, Bonito in Mexico.
Funny thing is when I'm fishing I'm always scoping out the birds. I have been duck and goose hunting in Sonorra Mexico, Arkansas, Texas, Tennesee, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia and soon in South Dakota. I love meeting new people and trying local foods. I hunt with a professional chef who makes every trip a culinary delight. Man I've been blessed.

Larry, I did craft it as such so it could perhaps be taken as tongue in cheek. As far as outdoor activities, fishing is really low on my things I like to do but as mentioned I will do it at various times but very very rarely.

Larry Eckart said:
This is a humorous thread starter. I'm not sure Kyle isn't talking tongue in cheek.

There's nothing wrong with liking only fishing or only hunting.

But I enjoy doing both, even on the same trip.

One of my favorite dual adventures was alternating days of duck hunting in the UP of Michigan and then steelhead fishing in the St. Mary's rapids where if you ain't real careful you will float your hat in water that looks two feet deep but is actually five feet deep.

This summer, after I retire to the Raleigh area, I look forward to combo trips of duck hunting on the OBX and also learning to fish at the Oregon Inlet or in the spring trout fishing in the Blue Ridge combined with turkey hunting.

I'll take both until the day I can't.

Larry

Chris, I have a few buddies that spearfish but since I work fighting fires in the summer I rarely have anytime at all. I did pick up a bowfishing bow for my fews days off every summer though so I'm pretty excited about that. I actually would love to bowfish for gators. I did notice where I am going in the Caribbean you can spearfish for lionfish so I may give it a go.

Chris Finch said:
I gave up fishing after working for the fisheries division, it just seemed way to boring.

I?ll go a few times a year, (cat-fishing is fun because it?s just basically drinking beers).

But ever since I got into spearfishing that?s all I want to do, it?s even more fun than duck hunting (at least in CT, duck hunting out in OR/WA has been unreal).

I think you guys in SD can shoot non game fish and pike/walleye. I would highly recommend trying it out, then definitely do it in the Caribbean. Blasting some hogfish, groupers, and grabbing some crays would be unreal.


I bet you would move to the salt after that!

Salt is a nice place to visit. I could never leave the midwest fulltime but I am very open to snowbirding later in life and following the migration from Saskatchewan all the way to Central America.
 
I had a very memorable early season day where I had a great duck hunt, then caught some striped bass, then went surfing and had some great waves. By the end of the day it looked like the Sheriff came to evict me from my house. Rods, buckets, decoys, waders hanging over the railing next to the wetsuit that was hanging over the rail, booties and gloves from surfing next to boots and gloves from hunting. I had fish to cut and ducks to clean and was bow-legged tired from the trifecta of stupid. Never again......
 
Kyle -

From the times I spent waterfowl and upland bird hunting in SD, the SD Triple Slam is doable. A guide for the Walleye trip is a wise move. That will be a enjoyable full day for sure.

We have stayed and hunted many places is SD, and I was always interested in the Walleye fishing.

When we stayed in Kimball, SD we enjoyed meals of pheasant, duck, Walleye and Antelope. The Walleye & Antelope courtesy of our friends we stayed and hunted pheasants with.

Lotta good folks in SD and ND.


Best regards
Vince
 
Kyle,

This is exactly why this forum is such a really really nice place to gather and discuss a wide array of topics.. The folks here are very tolerant of others choices and opinions. In this particular case you are certainly well within your right to be wrong,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and I shall defend your right to be wrong, should anyone here say otherwise.

BTW, I have an open seat in my boat tomorrow if you care to join me. [whistle] [angelic][angelic]
 
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