Weight It In Or Keep Your Mouth Shutt!

[ColdWaterFshr]

Well, I've got two words for all of you as far as privilege of fishing with such and such, just two words . . .

1. Paul

2. Dallas

So put that chicken in your ziploc, shake it up a lil, and then bake it.

Shake and Bake.

[Fly_Guy]

If professional fishing is the toughest sport, my name's Micropterus salmoides!! Gimme a break. Oh my, how rough, I got a slight tan while buzzing around the lake in my glitter boat. Oh no - I think I pulled a muscle reeling in that 5 lb bass! Sure it is a challenge. But the toughest professional sport??!! I would like to nominate boxing, or soccer, or football..... or curling..... or ANY other "sport" than fishing. just my humble opinion, tho.

[brownieman]

If professional fishing is the toughest sport, my name's Micropterus salmoides!! Gimme a break. Oh my, how rough, I got a slight tan while buzzing around the lake in my glitter boat. Oh no - I think I pulled a muscle reeling in that 5 lb bass! Sure it is a challenge. But the toughest professional sport??!! I would like to nominate boxing, or soccer, or football..... or curling..... or ANY other "sport" than fishing. just my humble opinion, tho.

Your humble opinion gave me a good laugh...tho.

thanks...needed it

[Sam]

Yeah, yeah, those pros can catch the tar out of bass - but that's not a tough sport. Us real men go skunk hunting - with knives.

[bigredbirdfan]

If professional fishing is the toughest sport, my name's Micropterus salmoides!! Gimme a break. Oh my, how rough, I got a slight tan while buzzing around the lake in my glitter boat. Oh no - I think I pulled a muscle reeling in that 5 lb bass! Sure it is a challenge. But the toughest professional sport??!! I would like to nominate boxing, or soccer, or football..... or curling..... or ANY other "sport" than fishing. just my humble opinion, tho.

I didn't say the most physically enduring as you suggest I did I meant being one of the best at your sport. Try it for a living up against these guys and watch yourself get clean smoked. You would be washing their glitter boats after you failed to qualify .

[edyer]

I didn't say the most physically enduring as you suggest I did I meant being one of the best at your sport. Try it for a living up against these guys and watch yourself get clean smoked. You would be washing their glitter boats after you failed to qualify .

I know if I prefished for four days and then fished four straight days in a tournament, I would be worn out. Then maybe then driving several hundred miles to do it all over again. I can feel my back complaining already.

[Fly_Guy]

I have no doubt I'd get "clean smoked" - the same could be said for any other professional sport I would be foolish enough to endevour without years of practice and training. I'd get smoked at golf by the pros - but not because golf is the most difficult professional sport. No doubt pro fishing is tough - but if you compare relative failure, I would wager I would fail less (though still miserably) against a pro fisherman than I would against, say a boxer, or linebacker, or one-on-one soccer or basketball. Who knows - I may have more one-on-one success vs. Kobe Bryant than vs. Mike Icon, but I doubt it. Bottom line - pro sports are taxing and draining, but I still think fishing is less so than other sports. And as I do my nine-to-five, I don't want to hear people complaining about how tired they are after fishing for eight days straight. I know I can't relate, but still... More power to the pros and glitter boats, making a mega-money "sport" out of something that, at it's highest 'level' should be (in MY opinion of course) be a low-pressure, local tournament with friends and neighbors competing. The pros can have their cash, sponsors, prestige, quality equipment (and I recognize that it is worked for - I work to be the best microbiologist/researcher - and it is tiring and tedious). Sorry if I'm offending folks, but hearing a pro complain about how hard it is to fish all the time is always a treat, when most of us work just as hard at our respective jobs.

[Sam]

When I finally got to move back home to the Ozarks, I was 44. Living near good bass lakes again, I thought I'd start fishing tournaments and maybe get into it seriously - so I fished in some local tournaments. Anything I do I like to do it real well or not at all, and I soon realized that the mid-40's are too late to start that. Not that I couldn't do it at that age, I could - but tournament fishing is so physically demanding I could feel it even then and I knew it wouldn't be long before I couldn't keep up and compete effectively against guys who were a lot younger.

I've always been a real active fisherman, friends used to call me "that kid who'd rather fish than eat", and they were right. I'm 62 now and I'm fine, but tournament fishing is real demanding physically and I wouldn't be able to keep up now - not at any kind of winning level.

I can see the way this is going. Instead of being so active with my fishing, I'm gonna end up being one of those guys tied up to a stump with a couple of slip-bobber rigs out, drowning minnows all day. That's OK, I'll keep doing the best I can and I'll have a good time doing it. Just try not to run over me out there, and does anybody know where I can get a big umbrella for my boat?

[Whack'emGood]

I can see the way this is going. Instead of being so active with my fishing, I'm gonna end up being one of those guys tied up to a stump with a couple of slip-bobber rigs out, drowning minnows all day. That's OK, I'll keep doing the best I can and I'll have a good time doing it. Does anybody know where I can get a big umbrella for my boat?

Sam-

I too am a very intense fisherman and I enjoy the way I fish. But, I am not against sitting in the shade and just tossing out a line either... I see how that is just as fun, but just a different way to enjoy fishing.

The bottom line of this very interesting thread is that it doesn't matter how a person likes to fish (and everybody is different)-- What matters is that he/she enjoys their time on the water.

The great thing about fishing, Sam, is that you can fish from when you are just old enough to cast out a line all the way up until you're too old to cast a line anymore-- and have fun the whole time your doing it.

Whack'em

[cofobasser]

Bottom line - pro sports are taxing and draining, but I still think fishing is less so than other sports. And as I do my nine-to-five, I don't want to hear people complaining about how tired they are after fishing for eight days straight. I know I can't relate, but still...

Hey man I kinda see were u are comming from but I know that I am 21 years old and I get tired after standing all day in wind and rain. Ive fished 2 days in a row and I am a little tired and there are guys out there that are getting up there that do it 4, 5, 6, sometimes more days a week. That is amazing and I respect those guys.

I LOVE those glitter boats though, they are freakn cool. I gotta get me one of them after college