Gone fishing (and drinking)

[JAS_OH1]

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I remember way back when you could get shark steaks $5/lb.

I used to catch them more often that I wanted to when I was fishing. Shore fishing I was trying to land pompano, pier fishing I didn't really care what I was fishing for but generally ended up with mackerel or amberjack (fine for smoking), and deep sea fishing I was trying for grouper usually, though I was okay with landing snapper. It's rather upsetting to catch a shark. Even though they weren't big, they are very tricky and I often would rather just cut the line and lose the hook rather than risk a bite. They sometimes look like they're dead when they're not. I have seen other people get bit. Yuck.

Oh and when spear fishing and I encountered a shark who was interested in my catch and was too close for my comfort, I dumped my whole bag of fish for him/her and swam back up to the boat. That only happened once thankfully.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I used to catch them more often that I wanted to when I was fishing. Shore fishing I was trying to land pompano, pier fishing I didn't really care what I was fishing for but generally ended up with mackerel or amberjack (fine for smoking), and deep sea fishing I was trying for grouper usually, though I was okay with landing snapper. It's rather upsetting to catch a shark. Even though they weren't big, they are very tricky and I often would rather just cut the line and lose the hook rather than risk a bite. They sometimes look like they're dead when they're not. I have seen other people get bit. Yuck.

Oh and when spear fishing and I encountered a shark who was interested in my catch and was too close for my comfort, I dumped my whole bag of fish for him/her and swam back up to the boat. That only happened once thankfully.

Brilliant stuff.
I’ve been thinking about taking up fishing on and off for some time. Think it’ll be good when we go to the Isle of Man.
I’ve been twice and I enjoyed it. Although I confess hanging up a sign saying ‘gone fishing’ and disappearing is what drew me to the idea

Where should I start?

 

[Barriehie]

Brilliant stuff.
I’ve been thinking about taking up fishing on and off for some time. Think it’ll be good when we go to the Isle of Man.
I’ve been twice and I enjoyed it. Although I confess hanging up a sign saying ‘gone fishing’ and disappearing is what drew me to the idea

Where should I start?

I need to go fishing. I've been buying the all in license for Georgia for 4 years now and not sure yet where my tackle box is...

 

[JAS_OH1]

Brilliant stuff.
I’ve been thinking about taking up fishing on and off for some time. Think it’ll be good when we go to the Isle of Man.
I’ve been twice and I enjoyed it. Although I confess hanging up a sign saying ‘gone fishing’ and disappearing is what drew me to the idea

Where should I start?

I used to go fishing and crabbing with my dad when I was a kid. I had to learn how to clean what I caught and if it wasn't suitable for eating (type of fish or size) I was taught to throw it back. If the fish was mangled from the hook, we put it in the crab trap.

As an adult, it's a fun way to drink alcohol and hang out with friends. When I was younger it was okay to drink on boats. Now they treat it as bad as an open container in a car. Doesn't matter if you are driving or not, no open containers allowed. Shore fishing no problemo.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I used to go fishing and crabbing with my dad when I was a kid. I had to learn how to clean what I caught and if it wasn't suitable for eating (type of fish or size) I was taught to throw it back. If the fish was mangled from the hook, we put it in the crab trap.

As an adult, it's a fun way to drink alcohol and hang out with friends. When I was younger it was okay to drink on boats. Now they treat it as bad as an open container in a car. Doesn't matter if you are driving or not, no open containers allowed. Shore fishing no problemo.

Sounds like an enjoyable way to while away time.
As you know in the UK we don’t have open container laws other than in some city centres where they’ve had trouble but it’s still not illegal there either, the council just makes a thing called ‘public space protection order’ which means the police can ask you to stop drinking and can confiscate alcohol. It’s really designed to combat antisocial behaviour when people get out of hand.

It’s also perfectly normal if we go to an event or on a trip to have a ‘traveller’ to get the fun started straight away. Unless you’re the driver then of course it’s a distinct and definite no no.

I was stopped by the police at Christmas once in a routine police ‘ alcohol education’ drive when I was driving everyone into town for some revelry. I had a car full of merry people drinking straight out of champagne bottles. They looked in the car, asked me if I’d been drinking I said no and they said ok have a nice evening

 

[medtran49]

Oh and when spear fishing and I encountered a shark who was interested in my catch and was too close for my comfort, I dumped my whole bag of fish for him/her and swam back up to the boat. That only happened once thankfully.

The fish in the silvery-gray suits are by far more aggressive than sharks. They are the only ones Craig and I ever had to go back to back and use our loaded spear guns to poke at several of them circling us as they wanted our catch. They didn't get it.

I did have a moray come up out of its hidey hole in the reef and follow me half way to the surface because it wanted the bag of lobster I was carrying once. It didn't get the bag either, though I had to ascend fairly far before it decided to go back to the reef.

BTW, don't ever shoot a moray with a spear gun unless you can get a head/kill shot. Had a friend do that once with a tethered spear shaft (we free shaft hunted). The eel came after him. Asked him why in the world he did that since they aren't edible. He said he just did it.

 

[medtran49]

Brilliant stuff., using a strong light and a net.
I’ve been thinking about taking up fishing on and off for some time. Think it’ll be good when we go to the Isle of Man.
I’ve been twice and I enjoyed it. Although I confess hanging up a sign saying ‘gone fishing’ and disappearing is what drew me to the idea

Where should I start?

When shrimp are running, you can catch them off a pier using a strong light and a net, besides fishing and crabbing.

 

[karadekoolaid]

It’s also perfectly normal if we go to an event or on a trip to have a ‘traveller’ to get the fun started straight away. Unless you’re the driver then of course it’s a distinct and definite no no.

Reminds me of this:
The cops are waiting outside a pub. A bloke comes staggering out and meanders towards a car, fumbles in his pocket, and pulls out a key. He stares at the key, then smacks it into the door. After the 4th attempt, he finally gets the key into the door lock. Falls into the car and, after three times stalling the car, carefully backs out of the car park and starts driving down the road at about 15 mph.
The cops look at each other and think "RIGHT! We've got our man!!" and start following him.
He continues down the road, round a corner, down the straight, left, right, and finally slips into a drive, all at 15 mph.
Meanwhile his mates get into their cars in the pub car park and drive home.
The cops pull up behind the man in the drive. , shine a light into the car and say "Good evening sir. Would you care to step out of the car? "
The bloke steps out of the car, straight as a rod.
"Have you been drinking, sir?"
"Nope"
"Blow into the bag, sir"
0%
Cops are mystified. "We saw you stagger out of the pub, struggle to put the keys in the lock, stall the car 3 times and drive away at 15mph. How come you've not been drinking?"
"I'm the designated driver tonight"

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Reminds me of this:
The cops are waiting outside a pub. A bloke comes staggering out and meanders towards a car, fumbles in his pocket, and pulls out a key. He stares at the key, then smacks it into the door. After the 4th attempt, he finally gets the key into the door lock. Falls into the car and, after three times stalling the car, carefully backs out of the car park and starts driving down the road at about 15 mph.
The cops look at each other and think "RIGHT! We've got our man!!" and start following him.
He continues down the road, round a corner, down the straight, left, right, and finally slips into a drive, all at 15 mph.
Meanwhile his mates get into their cars in the pub car park and drive home.
The cops pull up behind the man in the drive. , shine a light into the car and say "Good evening sir. Would you care to step out of the car? "
The bloke steps out of the car, straight as a rod.
"Have you been drinking, sir?"
"Nope"
"Blow into the bag, sir"
0%
Cops are mystified. "We saw you stagger out of the pub, struggle to put the keys in the lock, stall the car 3 times and drive away at 15mph. How come you've not been drinking?"
"I'm the designated driver tonight"

The one I struggle with over here which has happened at the rugby club more than once is where one of them has driven to rugby fully intending to drive home but then they decide to stay and celebrate with everyone else.
It's common for cars to be left there overnight and for people to pick them up the next day.

So occasionally (not often) one of the players will realise they're worse for wear and completely physically spent so they go n lie down for a sleep in their car.
They have no intention of driving. They're just sleeping but if they have the keys technically they are in charge of the vehicle and so can be prosecuted.

I think that's pretty mean. If they started the engine then fine but knocking on the window, waking them up and asking where the keys are is low. That's not an isolated incident, it's something they do. Technically it might be a legitimate collar but morally I find it reprehensible.

Occasionally the players used to be warned if you want a sleep put the keys under your seat and if asked where they are do not produce them!

 

[Barriehie]

The one I struggle with over here which has happened at the rugby club more than once is where one of them has driven to rugby fully intending to drive home but then they decide to stay and celebrate with everyone else.
It's common for cars to be left there overnight and for people to pick them up the next day.

So occasionally (not often) one of the players will realise they're worse for wear and completely physically spent so they go n lie down for a sleep in their car.
They have no intention of driving. They're just sleeping but if they have the keys technically they are in charge of the vehicle and so can be prosecuted.

I think that's pretty mean. If they started the engine then fine but knocking on the window, waking them up and asking where the keys are is low. That's not an isolated incident, it's something they do. Technically it might be a legitimate collar but morally I find it reprehensible.

Occasionally the players used to be warned if you want a sleep put the keys under your seat and if asked where they are do not produce them!

We would leave them under the car, on the ground. If the vehicle was searched you're still good.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

We would leave them under the car, on the ground. If the vehicle was searched you're still good.

They can’t search your car in this country without permission or grounds and the grounds have to be proven (to the extent they don’t cross that line unless theyre 100% certain)

 

[Barriehie]

They can’t search your car in this country without permission or grounds and the grounds have to be proven (to the extent they don’t cross that line unless theyre 100% certain)

Here they just need "probably cause".

 

[vernplum]

I've always loved the idea of going fishing, but having always been a city boy I never got round to it properly.

One time when my boys were still little (5 and 7 or round there) we went on holiday to Phuket in Thailand so I decided we'd go on a boat for some sport/sea fishing. There are these boats that will take you out to try to catch Sailfish which I thought would be exciting for all of us. It's a couple of hundred quid for the day including the captain's time and bus transfers to the place.

We were expecting something like this internet photo:

Well to cut a long story short, having driven across Phuket to the other side to get to the boat dock which took well over an hour, then going out on the sea in the scorching heat for about 5 hours we didn't catch anything! Nada! We could see the fish in the distance jumping out of the water they were so big, there just never seemed to be any round where we were. The Thai boat captain said 'well, sometimes it's like that'.

Anyway, that was disappointing, so a couple of days after we got back to Singapore I decided to try to charter a small boat with captain for a day to do the same off the south of the island (boat docks are always so far from civilisation ffs), and while we did catch a couple of small groupers and parrotfish (I think we caught 5 fish in total) and my boys did get to have their hands on the rod and reel them in, that cost me about $700! so each fish was about $140 lol. We brought them home, where I had to kill them and gut them myself and made some tiny fried fillets that I recall were distinctly underwhelming.

Yeah, so that's my fishing story.

 

[medtran49]

Most people here throw parrot fish back in the water when they catch them. They are very bony and a lot of work to clean and eat since they are so bony. Just not worth it.

 

[vernplum]

Most people here throw parrot fish back in the water when they catch them. They are very bony and a lot of work to clean and eat since they are so bony. Just not worth it.

Not a fish expert but there are many species so it’s likely the ones where you are differ from where I am. Round here it’s like this below and they sell it at my local fishmongers. It’s very fleshy with firm tasty meat.