Besides Love Men Need Fishing

TomZart

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Dear hermanntrude,

Thank you for your reply and have a nice day.


RIVER FISHING


After school my friend and I would walk through town to the river
Soon to bait our trout lines with cotton cake, crawdads and liver.
Sometimes we used baby bullheads, perch or great big frogs
Tossing out into the current next to a snag of logs.

At times we would disrobe and wade out in the stream
Attaching lines to anything hoping to hook our dream.
One day I made some doe bait and stuffed it in my sock
Attached five hooks, hundred pound line and tied it to a rock.

When I bragged to my classmates they snickered and called me fool
Till the next day they followed me to the river after school.
I made my way to the water my path was a fallen tree
Something big was on my line it was easy for us to see.

I tried to pull it in but the current was too strong
Three boys ran to assist me as we began to sing a song.
Going fishing instead of wishing for the granddaddy of them all
If we land this monster will give the sport shows a call.

It seemed like forever before our beast was ashore
Eighty-five pounds of flathead cat as big as a closet door.
We shared his steaks at a fish fry, food for heart and soul
Took his head and nailed it high for all to see on a pole.

For a time we ceased our casting instead we chased the girls
After marriage with our kids we again fished the swirls.
Too many of my friends have past and the years have raced by
Though here I sit with rod in hand a fisherman till I die.


By Tom Zart

 

Blackleaf

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Fishing is Britain's biggest sport. I don't know how popular it is elsewhere but I think it's the most popular here. Even football is only second.
 

L Gilbert

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I don't really consider fishing or hunting as sports. I eat the fish and the prey. I think they'd be sports for me if I caught and released or caught and left them to die, but I don't. As Bear said one time, it's a matter of respect; both self-respect and respect for other living things. Anyway, sport or not, it's fun.

Rugby is my favorite sport. Lacrosse is pretty good. Football is ok, cricket was ok, baseball is ok. Basketball and American foolball stink.
 

RomSpaceKnight

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I'm a huge fisherman. Northern lakes or local rivers. I am a member of the Western Ontario Fish and Game Protective Association. We are the oldest club of it's kind in Canada. What is not popular in NA as opposed to Europe is carp fishing. I love carp fishing. Except for salmon in the fall, what other 20lb fish live in modern polluted rivers. If carp jumped they would be called a sport fish in NA.
 

L Gilbert

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I'm a huge fisherman. Northern lakes or local rivers. I am a member of the Western Ontario Fish and Game Protective Association. We are the oldest club of it's kind in Canada. What is not popular in NA as opposed to Europe is carp fishing. I love carp fishing. Except for salmon in the fall, what other 20lb fish live in modern polluted rivers. If carp jumped they would be called a sport fish in NA.
How huge are you? Like Paul Bunyan huge? Or just Arnie Shortzpecker huge? :D