Do you fish?

I reckon it's better than sex.............

Why Fishing is better than sex:
1. You don't have to hide your Fishing magazines.
2. It's perfectly acceptable to pay a professional to Fish with you once in a while.
3. The Ten Commandments don't say anything about Fishing.
4. If your partner takes pictures or videotapes of you Fishing in your Whaler, you don't have to worry about them showing up on the Internet if you become famous.
5. Your Fishing partner doesn't get upset about people you fished with long ago.
6. It's perfectly respectable to Fish with a total stranger.
7. When you see a really good Fisher person, you don't have feel guilty about imagining the two of you Fishing in a Whaler together.
8. If your regular Fishing partner isn't available, he/she won't object if you Fish with someone else.
9. Nobody will ever tell you that you will go blind if you Fish by yourself.
10. When dealing with a Fishing pro, you never have to wonder if they are really an undercover cop.
11. You can have a Fishing calendar on your wall at the office, tell Fishing jokes, and invite coworkers to Fish with you without getting sued for harassment.
12. There are no Fishing-transmitted diseases.
13. If you want to watch Fishing on television, you don't have to subscribe to the Playboy channel.
14. Nobody expects you to Fish with the same partner for the rest of your life.
15. Nobody expects you to give up Fishing if your partner loses interest in it.
16. Your Fishing partner will never say, "Not again? We just Fished last week! Is Fishing all you ever think about?"

T Man - what if I do more than one of these? Like almost all of them...

You can click on more than one option.....:)

Originally posted by taranaki
You can click on more than one option.....:)

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Damn it....Every so often a poll doesn't work :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

POLL NO WORKIE:(

I ocasionally drag out the surfcaster and find some nice rocks to sit on (normally east coast as the west can be a bit unforgiving at times).

I perfer sitting on a nice boat with a nice cold bottle of Speights or Export and fish for some tasty snapper. Must go out again soon:cool:

I sometimes go saltwater estuary fishing for flathead, bream etc. My Grandparents live on the water and have a private wharf. Very cool spot to fish. For any Australians - Woy Woy on the central coast.

Originally stated by a Fisherman
old fishermen never die . . . .

They just smell that way :devil:

Me= City boy, I don't know how to fish :(

you live closer to the ocen than I do and you don't know how to fish?



*shrugs* the youth of today *shrugs*

I'm a City Boy too but has been fishing since I was 18 months old (which is about when I started to walk). My Dad used to fish on Devonport Wharf after work and took his infant son along to give his Mum some quiet time.

When I started to walk this became an issue so Dad had a brain wave and stuck a small but functional fishing rod in his boy's hands. Problem solved - son stood behind handrail of wharf and concentrated on the float for his sprat line (and hence did not wander off).

Since then said city boy has harvested hard shelled clams (aka cockles) from the nearby beach, speared flat fish (yellow-bellied flounder) in the mudflats near his house using a sealed beam headlight and a car battery in a backpack for light, surfcast with a 15 foot 4 wrap bream rod and a 8-inch Alvey reel off Narrow Neck Beach and Flat Rock @ Muriwai, harvested mussels in the Coromandel, set nets off Te Atatu for Flounder, trolled in Lake Hawea for Rainbow and Brown Trout, used a Kon-Tiki off Ninety Mile Beach, fished in Rangitoto Channel on a boat most of his life, skin-dived and scuba dived for scallops and crayfish and whitebaited in the West Coast... plus watched porpoises ride the bow wave on a yacht he's been sailing and watched whales...

C'mon Moss - Fishing is NZ's most popular recreational sport and being from a city surrounded by not one but two productive harbors you need to get out and try it...

And strewth that's three in a row I'm with Taz.

He must be on a roll !

90 mile beach is good:D

went tramping around that area and decided to take a wander down to the beach. Saw a fisherman strugling to pull in his kontiki so we offered to help. Ended up being paid with 2 fair sized snapper which cooked up nicely over the embers of the campfire:smoka:

Still haven't been trout fishing yet, that is next on my to do list

Originally posted by tazdev
you live closer to the ocen than I do and you don't know how to fish?



*shrugs* the youth of today *shrugs*

no I live by a crap-ass harbour that probably only has spotties- YOU however live closer to the Hauraki Gulf than I do- THAT is a nicer spot :D

Moss

That crap-ass harbor contains significant sea-life (despite the best efforts of stormwater, sewerage etc). I've fished in the Waitemata since I was a boy and while it's harder to fish than it was - it remains one of the few cities in the world where I can still fish and catch something edible and of the size to have a feed fairly regularly and not have to travel for hours.

On an aside, if you have some time over summer try going up to a place called Leigh to the north of Auckland. There is a marine reserve @ a place called Goat Island. Take a loaf of bread and a couple of cups of frozen peas - hire a mask and snorkel (even better if you have one) and hop into the water just off the rocks at the right hand side.

I've taken a lot of folk from overseas there and they are astounded by the wealth of sea-life. It's on your doorstep - go have a look.

Do I have a chance to meet chicks while fishing??? :licker:

No? Ok, I don't fish then! :D

I have before though, it was fun, but I don't have anymore free time! :(

I try and go fishing a few times a week (except in the winter). Its on the great lakes which has a pretty good variety of fish. In fact the salmon are running now and soon and if the weather clears up - I'll be down there tonight.

Originally posted by Damien
Do I have a chance to meet chicks while fishing??? :licker:

No? Ok, I don't fish then! :D

I have before though, it was fun, but I don't have anymore free time! :(

Do you have a chance to meet chicks while whoring on AF?

....................no?


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>well?:flipa:

Only if I'm running through the water after the fish and catching them with my bare hands, otherwise, it bores me to death, and I don't like fish anyways.

Originally posted by taranaki


Do you have a chance to meet chicks while whoring on AF?

....................no?


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>well?:flipa:

That's what school is for!!! Anyhow, I only go on AF now because of all the online work I do now of days. :(

Originally posted by Heep
Only if I'm running through the water after the fish and catching them with my bare hands, otherwise, it bores me to death, and I don't like fish anyways. LMAO... just try not to hit your head!! :finger:

Originally posted by Heep
Only if I'm running through the water after the fish and catching them with my bare hands, otherwise, it bores me to death, and I don't like fish anyways.

Death by boredom - what a rotten way to go.

Sleeping with beer and a stick...count me out.

The worst part is if you actually catch something..then you have to eat fish....:apuke:

Originally posted by jay@af
LMAO... just try not to hit your head!! :finger:

Lol, I'll make sure to keep that in mind :hehehe:

All the newbies have no idea what we're talking about :D

Originally posted by boingo82
Sleeping with beer and a stick...count me out.

The worst part is if you actually catch something..then you have to eat fish....:apuke:

Exactly my reasoning.

It's dawn on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. The sun seems to begin to ooze out of the blue waters beyond the horizon. The dark curtain of night is lifting and the black had begun to change hue to the deepest blue you've ever seen.

A small wave breaks from right to left, shimmering sunlight dancing along the break accompanied by the roar as it fades across the glistening wet white sands. You've readied your surf caster and waded out into the warm waters up to your waist, steadied yourself and then a swift fluid motion (the product of years of skill and practice) you cast. The sinker yields a clue to the flight as the line clears off your trusty Alvey reel and you watch as it clears the white line of the breakers. With the drag off you ease your way back to the shoreline, pausing only to take a breath of the fresh sea air off the Pacific Ocean.

As you place the rod into your rod-holder securely planted in the sand, you cast your eyes down the deserted beach with only the odd sea-bird to disturb the serenity of the moment. The waves continue as they have always done - gently caressing the shore. Kicking off your shoes, you run your toes thru the hot white sand.

The sun rises further and as the eastern sky glows with amber, crimson and then to deep blue you wonder how folk who don't fish will ever experience the sea, the sky and the shore that you are feeling at that instant except as a moment's reflection.

That's why I fish.

Boingo - As for getting drunk with a stick any bloke can can do that a strip bar in town.

Originally posted by replicant_008

On an aside, if you have some time over summer try going up to a place called Leigh to the north of Auckland. There is a marine reserve @ a place called Goat Island. Take a loaf of bread and a couple of cups of frozen peas - hire a mask and snorkel (even better if you have one) and hop into the water just off the rocks at the right hand side.

I've taken a lot of folk from overseas there and they are astounded by the wealth of sea-life. It's on your doorstep - go have a look.

I didnt think you could feed the fishies anymore because they were getting a bit fierce (for want of a better word) and chomping at the tourists if they didnt have food???

I agree tho its awesome seeing those snapper up close and personal - shame you cant take them home to fry up :D :D :D

Originally posted by Heep
Only if I'm running through the water after the fish and catching them with my bare hands, otherwise, it bores me to death, and I don't like fish anyways.

Thats the exact reason I don't fish- Fish is disgusting :apuke:

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi


Thats the exact reason I don't fish- Fish is disgusting :apuke:

bite your tonuge young man. Fish is the tenderest and tastiest meat you can buy (apart from overpriced vensison that is).

Originally posted by tazdev


bite your tonuge young man. Fish is the tenderest and tastiest meat you can buy (apart from overpriced vensison that is).

you forgot to add :If you have paralysed taste buds


:finger:

But you must learn this age old adage.

"The worst day fishing is still better than the best day working"

Amen to that.

Originally posted by tazdev
But you must learn this age old adage.

"The worst day fishing is still better than the best day working"

Eh, I'd have to disagree with that. I'd rather drive Lincoln LS's and Ford Mustangs all day like I was for work this past summer than fish.....

Originally posted by Heep


Eh, I'd have to disagree with that. I'd rather drive Lincoln LS's and Ford Mustangs all day like I was for work this past summer than fish.....

0wned :D


but so very very true :D

Originally posted by Heep


Eh, I'd have to disagree with that. I'd rather drive Lincoln LS's and Ford Mustangs all day like I was for work this past summer than fish.....

Theres always one:rolleyes:

Originally posted by taranaki
4. If your partner takes pictures or videotapes of you Fishing in your Whaler, you don't have to worry about them showing up on the Internet if you become famous.
Mr T there'll be no fishing in my whale thank you very much! :D :p :angel:

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
Mr T there'll be no fishing in my whale thank you very much! :D :p :angel:

Damn...and there was I just waiting for the opportunity to whip out my tackle....;)

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
Mr T there'll be no fishing in my whale thank you very much! :D :p :angel:

Spec2 and her inuendo now of days! :LICKER: :D

Originally posted by Damien


Spec2 and her inuendo now of days! :LICKER: :D

Smilies=case sensitive, dumbass:finger:

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi


Smilies=case sensitive, dumbass:finger:

Moss=insensitive, jafa.....:finger:

Originally posted by Damien


Spec2 and her inuendo now of days! :LICKER: :D There was no inuendo intended in my post. I am an :angel: and :angel:s don't do that sort of thing. :D

:p

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
There was no inuendo intended in my post. I am a http://students.washington.edu/leprakon/dtm-af/smilies/whip.gifand http://students.washington.edu/leprakon/dtm-af/smilies/whip.gifs don't do that sort of thing. :D

:p

gotta love the boots:licker: :silly2:

Originally posted by taranaki


gotta love the boots:licker: :silly2: I picked them up yesterday! :D