Fishing: are you into it?

[shoulders]

It's a good feeling waking up and knowing there's a clear, pristine day to get out and kick the living shit out of a canal.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Ask yourself this, when a bison smashes you into Stockton Rush paste, should we shrug or mourn the loss of valuable life in out delicate ecosystem?

I ask you THIS in return

Do you think your shit life is as valuable as a magestic tuna or a hilarious monkey? I don't think so

[PlanktonSideburns]

The rare crimson gilled snark. See it glitter in the crystal clear stream. Such beauty, evolutionary brilliance. Watch i horror as it is torn from its home by metal on a reel. Confusion in its eyes when confronted by two gurning alternative comedians, inanely gibbering and brapping their pollution into the atmosphere.

It perishes.

A man on a forum says "who the fuck cares"

That man is destroyed by a bison in 2024

This is plankos mum please stop making fun of his recent bison pupling imbruglio he was our little angel despite everything cheers

[idunnosomename]

I am hooked.

[Cerys]

That fish looks like Tom Baker.

[BlodwynPig]

I ask you THIS in return

Do you think your shit life is as valuable as a magestic tuna or a hilarious monkey? I don't think so

No. But your bison death will be majestic!

[Ferris]

Can't wait to go kick the fuck out of some fish.

[Ferris]

fish are cunts, they've pissed me off specifically, but i still wouldn't throw a hook at them. i'll throw the book at them, sure - and indeed have. unfortunately i lost my case Stuart Gipp vs Fish and now a lot of my monthly income just goes straight in a river.

This made me reconsider. I think fish are pretty cool guys so I'm gonna go easy on 'em from now on.

[BlodwynPig]

This made me reconsider. I think fish are pretty cool guys so I'm gonna go easy on 'em from now on.

Rugged outdoorsman captured by the fey urban wokerati elites

[Buelligan]

First we're going to wax him.  Then we're going to train him.

[BlodwynPig]

Dynamite his fishing lodge

[Buelligan]

I don't think dynamiting is awfully woke (apologies to the dynamiting community). 

No.  We need to get him on a better diet and teach him to wee sitting down.  Then, perhaps, the dynamite.

[Gurke and Hare]

I sometimes see people fishing in Walsall canal - I've no idea what they catch, and I'm not eager to taste the fish.

I went for a walk recently in part along the Manchester Ship Canal - yeah, I go to all the beauty spots - and there was a stretch with a load of dead fish washed up on the bank.

(spoiler because you might reasonably not want to see a picture of dead fish)

Spoiler alert

[close]

There were people fishing about 100 yards away and yeah, I wouldn't want to eat the catch either.

It wasn't a totally wasted day out though, because I saw rabbits too.



Not spoilered, because nobody could object to a picture of a lovely bunny.

[BlodwynPig]

I can only condone fishing if fisherman adhere to the rule "tackle for tackle"

[PlanktonSideburns]

No. But your bison death will be majestic!

I guess a bit of his majesty rubs off during the goring

[idunnosomename]

I went for a walk recently in part along the Manchester Ship Canal - yeah, I go to all the beauty spots - and there was a stretch with a load of dead fish washed up on the bank.

(spoiler because you might reasonably not want to see a picture of dead fish)

Spoiler alert

[close]

they're just restin

[Jittlebags]

Laverly scaleage.

[Ferris]

Anyone mad enough to fish in the Walsall canal deserves absolutely everything that happens to them as a result.

[BlodwynPig]

*8 year old Ferris leaves thread*

(Also gored by Solihull bison)

[jobotic]

I stayed on a caravan park near Weymouth a few years ago and the little beach was covered in dead jellyfish.


I didn't eat them. I'm not a Cockney. I'm from Kent, Cockneys pick my hops in exchange for pints of whelks.

[Jittlebags]

This is a reely good little tackle and that website.

http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/index.html

[Senior Baiano]

Nah not really into it mate

[king_tubby]

I like eating fish, and I like sitting next to rivers, canals, lakes, seas, oceans etc, but I can't be arsed with actual fishing.

[Brundle-Fly]

Tried it once in 1977. Baw-ring!  It was the fact you had to be so quiet. The other thing that put me off was opening up my brother's bait box and a load of flies blasting out the tub, pebble dashing my face. It was like something out of The Mummy (1999).

Fuck fishing.

And I'm a Pisces.

[idunnosomename]

I caught the Hylian loach once (genuinely, took me hours and hours). so there's that

[Kankurette]

Tried it once in 1977. Baw-ring!  It was the fact you had to be so quiet. The other thing that put me off was opening up my brother's bait box and a load of flies blasting out the tub, pebble dashing my face. It was like something out of The Mummy (1999).

Fuck fishing.

And I'm a Pisces.

You don't want to catch your fishy brethren!

- Taurus who hates bullfighting

[Thursday]

I just assume I'd always mess things up on the extremely rare occasion I actually hook something and it would ruin my mood. Like the idea of sitting peacefully by the lake for a couple of hours and catching my dinner though.

[Roxy Robinson]

I just assume I'd always mess things up on the extremely rare occasion I actually hook something and it would ruin my mood. Like the idea of sitting peacefully by the lake for a couple of hours and catching my dinner though.

That's not my experience, it just gives you a hunger for more and focuses your mind next time you get a pull. It's an incredibly addictive feeling to catch a fish on the fly and the sheer challenge and satisfaction makes it easier to overlook the torture. How good did it feel to catch a Hylian loach? Well times that by a million and have it for dinner.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

I'd do it if you were allowed to write rude words on the fish in felt tip.

[Noodle Lizard]

I love it, but annoyingly there's no good fishing near me. Not for lack of trying. I'd have to go deep-sea or rent a boat to go further out into a pay-to-access lake I'd have to drive an hour and a half to reach. I could invest in some heavier gear and try fishing for rays or small sharks off a pier, but that doesn't really appeal to me (ethically I know it's not much different, but still).

The last good fishing I had was in Florida where there was a jetty across the street from where I was staying. I spent most of the holiday there, catching all sorts of weird, colourful and spiky things. Still not sure what some of them were.