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Liz:
Not that I know of, no.

I enjoy fishing, just not ice fishing. That is boring as hell. But if it's a nice summer day, going out in the boat and staying until dusk is really releaxing and also fun, even if you don't catch anything. And if you do, you take them home, fillet them, and have fresh fish for supper. Yum. These are good times.

Boro_Bandito:
People often forget that the majority of time spent fishing is waiting. Of course, that's why you do it on a nice day in a boat over beautiful water, or with friends or family that you can get along with, laugh, drink a few beers and listen to a baseball game on the radio at the same time. If you spend your entire time fishing looking intensely at the water screaming in your head "bite it! Bite it you bastard!" you're missing a lot of the point.

Ice fishing is something I've always wanted to try. I mean, sure it'd be a bit boring and cold, but once again I wouldn't want to do it without a couple people to provide some laughs and vodka.

Gemmwah:
To be honest, i haven't done a lot of fishing in my life, but the last time I did was this summer when an influx of whitebait along Hastings beach caused incredible amounts of Mackerel to come really close to the shore. Like, they were jumping out of the water about four or five metres away, it was incredible. I was down there with my sister, my aunt and my cousin, and we walked to the beach shops up in the old town just to get nets so that we could catch some whitebait. It was so ridiculously easy to heave them out of the water, and after a while my cousin's dad Mick showed up. He saw the fish, went to the nearest tackle shop and bought himself a new rod so that he could start fishing.

I swear to god, we caught over 30 mackerel in about two hours. For a while he was just stood there on the beach, casting, reeling in, and bringing in 3 fish at a time, sometimes four when two bit the same hook. It was incredible. Everyone had a go, and my cousin had such a blast when she caught her first fish. My aunt, Mick and my cousin stayed at the beach and barbequeued their fish after gutting them then and there, whereas we left and brought ours home in a cooler. I gutted them and cooked them for dinner, they were absolutely delicious. Fresh fish is amazing, and it's that much better when you've caught it yourself.

Boro_Bandito:
yeah, at times like that the fun really does just come from the excitement of reeling in tons of fish.

In the springtime around Pine Lake (where my grandmother used to live) the sunperch and smallmouth bass perch would be in the thousands close to the shoreline, and you could catch a good 30 or 40 of them a day. Not the best eating, but then those are the ones you fry up so much their meat falls off the big bones, and the little ones more or less become edible, so its still worth it. My best time ever fishing though is at night on one of the rotting old piers with my dad and brother and an old lantern that lights up the spider webs with giant orb weavers hanging in them on the posts out in the water, and fishing for channel cats along the shore and checking the trot lines in the middle of the night for hard heads out on the water. Down around that part you see a lot of snakes and sometimes small alligators out in parts of the water, making it feel dangerous and exciting to basically harvest fish the easy way. I need to get a house next to a lake or bay someday so I can do that again with my kids if I should ever have any.

Orbert:

--- Quote from: Verergoca on 14 Jan 2008, 11:11 ---Good point Orbert, altough you happen to be conveniently forgetting the entirety of the Lotka-Volterra model/equations, which neatly explains the relationship between predators (and their population) and their prey (and their population).

--- End quote ---

I wasn't conveniently forgetting the LV equation. It just isn't relevant here.

The implication (which has since been thrashed to death, but I never got a chance to respond) was that the predators in the wild were somehow choosing to pursue different prey, or at least that's how I read it. It struck me as a pretty bizarre thing to say, so I rebuked it.

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