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Re: You shoulda seen the Spy plane that got away (and other fish stories)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:37:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
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> > The reference is to maritime trolling -- the act of fishing by dropping your
> > baited lines in the water and ignoring them for a few hours while you steer
> > the boat. The idea is to let the fish do most of the work -- biting the
> > hook and tiring themselves out -- for you. While this practice has its
> > merits, it's certainly not the least-laziest means of getting fish out of
> > the water.
>
> Lying on the shore with your hook in the water is the laziest. I've had the
> most success catching fish by trolling. Fly-fishing is the best fishing,
> except when the fish bother you by getting caught on your hook.
Boy, shows how much *you* know about effortless fishing. The
laziest method, of course, involves TNT. The shockwave does
the work.[1]
> The (2nd) bravest fishing I've seen is holding a frying pan in a cataract
> and hoping a salmon jumps into it (yes, it worked, and yes, he let it go).
> The bravest (stupidist) was spearing a shark 15 feet down and only having a
> snorkle. Watching someone to breath that far down and hold that tiger by a
> tail was amusing (from a safe distance).
A well-placed depth charge could have solved that whole problem.
(Okay, you might not have ended up with anything *but* the tail...)
best
LFB
[1] Thus the time-honored saying is modified; it's now 'grenade
fishing in a barrel'...
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