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alikiI wish people took fishing more seriously as a sport. On Friday, when we went fishing, there were all the hooligans on the boat, beer drinking 20-somethings laughing hysterically, being loud and obnoxious. There were cigar-smoking men chomping on ham-and-cheese sandwiches, ignoring their fishing rods which have the wrong baits, baited incorrectly. I'm not expecting people to stand studiously by the edge of the boat, intensely concentrating on fishing. I understand people come out on the boat for fun, to get away, to have a good time. They believe that fishing is a game of luck, you throw the bait in and just wait. I'm sure they are the same group of people who obstinately believe that gambling is a game of luck. But as we know, it's about odds. Certain games have better odds, and if you pay attention to the cards, you play the game right, youll hve a bettert chance of hittign the jackpot. Same with fishing.
What would golfers say if I showed up on the course, wearing thew rong shoes so I scruff up the grass, hit my balls with a baseball bat instead of the 7 Iron, guzzle beer, laugh obnoxiously, yell "fore" and then "just kidding! Hahah!" and then scream and curse when I don't win the game? Fishing is a sport, somethign to be learnt and appreciated, and it's really annoying to be standing next to someone who tangles lines, cares more about his bottle of beer than his fishing rod, and en at the end of the day, wonders why he ddint' catch a single fish for the night.
He caught a striped bass and a fluke. I caught two striped bass that were too small, so had to be thrown back. But of the 44 people on the boat, I think only 6 or 7 people caught something. And there area lot of fish in the ocean. Wonder what people do on boats??? Certainly not fish.
What would golfers say if I showed up on the course, wearing thew rong shoes so I scruff up the grass, hit my balls with a baseball bat instead of the 7 Iron, guzzle beer, laugh obnoxiously, yell "fore" and then "just kidding! Hahah!" and then scream and curse when I don't win the game? Fishing is a sport, somethign to be learnt and appreciated, and it's really annoying to be standing next to someone who tangles lines, cares more about his bottle of beer than his fishing rod, and en at the end of the day, wonders why he ddint' catch a single fish for the night.
He caught a striped bass and a fluke. I caught two striped bass that were too small, so had to be thrown back. But of the 44 people on the boat, I think only 6 or 7 people caught something. And there area lot of fish in the ocean. Wonder what people do on boats??? Certainly not fish.
