Trout's Fishing Party
Just for fun.
I think it's time for a new political party. If you like the great outdoors I think you can get behind this. We'll be an open party and include all outdoorsy people and bookish people. What kind of a platform do you think this new party should have? My first board: One day off a month for fishing.
Give me your ideas and thoughts.
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Catch and release or eat 'em as you catch 'em?
I'm not good at all at fishing. And I don't have to worry about letting them go, as they do that on their own by falling off the hook, and slap me in the face with their tail on their way back into the water.
However, I do enjoy being in a serene and relaxing environment when out 'fishing'.
mostly catch and release now, but it was hook'em and cook'em on fishing trips.
I sit in my boat but usually only catch a buzz.
I beg your pardon???
Jeez...
I'm a city boy. I love fish... that Hélène buys fresh off the boats at the port. I went hunting once, when I was about ten, and had to carry my father's rifle as well as my own, when his flat feet gave out.
... but I do love sole!
Oh, boy, do I like fresh fish, too! Especially cod, salmon, sea bass, and flounder. I fish because it's fun but I'm not crazy about fresh water fish like trout and catfish. I ate the blue gill I caught which my friend cooked up and it was tasty.
I don't hunt, but like to be out in the woods. I've got deer that have a run across my front yard. I think they go down to a pond about 1/2 mile away, but I don't know.
Cool!
I get up early in the mornings and sit on my front porch with my coffee and smokes. I hear them snorting and carrying on in the woods.
I love pickerel and perch. I used to ice fish when I lived in the rural areas. Loved to batter & fry them.
I like ocean perch, very good for frying
I am a lake perch girl.
Love fish. Call me plain, but trout is the best. Love trout! Love salmon, too. Especially Blackened with Salty's Blackening Seasoning. Pretty much love whatever comes out of the water.
I like the way my gang does trout and catfish. They marinate it in yellow mustard then bread it and deep fry it. I prefer the beer batter to the corn meal batter. But I will not order catfish or trout in a restaurant because none of them get that muddy taste out of them.
I'm a big fan of salmon....grilled, baked, sauteed, smoked....got to eat a lot of it when I was in Alaska
And halibut! Love the stuff! Ate a lot of that, too
Never had it, but I would try it. I would also try lake bass, lake trout, and many of the lake fish found in the north like pike and walleye
I do like pike. Pickerel was my favorite. It is a real bony fish & my dad always told me to eat carefully & use buttered bread & milk to eat and drink alongside.
Lake perch is also very tasty. I would use flour or corn meal as a coating to fry it up. YUM!!!!!
Northern pike is great when it pickled.
Haven't had it pickled - does it taste like pickles? I don't like pickles.
Built a 1 acre pond and had Dunn's Fish Farm stock it 5 years ago. Have yet to wet a line.
Don't much care for eating fish; just wanted a balanced ecosystem and somewhere to swim, dive, kayak, row and camp out for an evening on the flat bank I had built just for that.
Transient geese, ducks and blue heron make much more use of it food-wise than I do.
But if the shit ever hits the fan, I have an inexhaustible supply of protein available.
The deer out here in the sticks are thick as fleas but I only shoot near them to scare them away from the orchard and mimosa trees which they seem to crave. Never craved venison or could fill several walk-in freezers.
Set up a system of trip wires attached to 12 gauge blank firing devices to help scare the deer away. First couple of times they went off while I was asleep had me grabbing my rifle and running out in my birthday suit before my sleep sodden brain figured it out.
The deer seem to have figured it out and now leave my fruit and nut trees alone but I do see fresh tracks on the spillway whenever I go down there.
Sounds like you have a great set-up.
Ok your place is party headquarters
Kinda tastes like dill pickles with a lot of meat. They can be either be meaty pickles or pickles with meat.
The only partys/parties allowed here involve beer, pot, skinny-dipping, kayak racing, bocce ball, ping pong, paintball and air mattress flotillas.
No politics allowed!
I probably wouldn't enjoy it then..... YECH pickles.
This is about fishing!
When I was in the Navy stationed at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendelton in Southern California I routinely went fishing at a stocked lake on base for largemouth bass, croppie, and catfish. The lake was about 15 minutes from home. I would go home from work and change clothes and head for the lake. I usually caught my limit of bass and croppie within a hour of fishing. My freezer was always stocked with fresh fish. Those were some great times. Sadly I have not been fishing in years as the closest lake is about a hour and a half away.
Sole? Blech, what a bland fish. I love haddock... what I would give for a good fish and chips right now.
Sole is good baked with butter and lemon. I also do stuffed flounder (which some call sole). That isn't bland at all.
I really like cod for fish and chips, except when I make fried cod, I make macaroni and cheese as a side dish
Mmmm with the fish done in a nice light tempura batter, that's the way my local place does em.
White fish is okay but it seems like most of it needs some sort of seasoning or sauce to get it to taste like anything.
I'm in and support the day off a month but would like to add subsidized heated ice fishing huts for those cold winter days
Subsidized heated ice fishing huts!
Second board of the platform!
I'm retired. Can I get my day off reimbursed?
No retroactive days off, Bob! Don't get greedy
Lol that would be up to President Trout Giggles
Fishing huts near polling places would make the vote seem a bit fishy.
I need sci-fi as part of the platform. Oh and I am a catch and release kind of person. I don't like to get to know my dinner.
Ok....sci-fi is on the platform. You can always take your telescope outside and use your imagination.
I got to know all of my dinners when I was a kid....
If it's salmon, trout or crappie, they're what's for dinner or the freezer.
Not a fan of eating bass but LOVE to catch and release them. I keep one or two a year for the mama.
Used to catch and eat catfish with my ex, not anymore, they get released, too much hassle.
I propose tax deductions for number of books read and amount of vegetables grown. [If that WERE retroactive I'd never pay another dime]
Seconded!
Seconded!
I'm down with that
I would love that..... Tax deductions for the amount of fish caught?
Neither do I! We had a summer place in Colorado. Of course we were fishing fools. My hunting/gathering responsibilities ended when I got the fish to the bank. If I had to look Mr. Limpet in the eye before killing him, I'd be eating pop tarts for supper while everyone else was enjoying their catch of the day.
Always figured that RAH would have made a great POTUS.
A rod and reel for all.
Tip-ups for all.
Flies for all.
My platform for the FRY THEM ALL party.
Good ones!
I like to use worms. Can we include WORMS FOR ALL?
I can add that and also
Minnows for all
LMAO, I'm all for that.
I'm all for the worms as well.
We always used minnows for ice fishing. When I was young my father had a huge tank for the minnows.
Crickets, we can't forget crickets. Crappie and bass love them...
Have caught more fish on a tri-hook silver spoon than anything else ever.
The last time I went fishing was maybe sixty years ago. I still remember how b-o-r-r-r-i-n-g it was.
Can I just eat what the others catch?
You're the designated camp cook and fire tenderer
Can we also make him the descaler?
I think Kavika ought to be our designated fish cleaner. He's got lots of experience.
As long as I don't have to do it. That was the only part of fishing I do not like.
The old saying is "fish or cut bait."
I submit that the cooking is the most important part.
Give me a fresh caught trout cleaned and stuffed with herbs and lemon garlic butter, wrapped in clay and buried in the campfire coals until the clay cracks open. The clay takes the skin off and one is left with a flaky baked fillet.
That sounds yummy.
Lol in our NWO there would be no freeloading, off with their heads! Trout can I be head of the fishing Justice Department
Yes, you can be the head of FJD.
He's not free loading if he's tending camp and cooking the fish
Nope, I will NOT relegate my hard caught fish to just anyone. What are Bob's bona fides? An expertise for cooking fish MUST be a qualification for our official Chef or I would rather cook my own to just done perfection.
Folk who know how to cook should cook. All others do KP and gather firewood.
You can cook your own.
Then you weren't doing it right.
You bring the beer, tequila and pot and I'll catch, clean and cook.
Just like Heinlein said. TINSTAAFL (there is no such thing as a free lunch).
This is my pet shark, he's funny, cute, and house broken. He is also a very good ''watch shark''.
I need one of these!
That is cool. I want one.
That was strange...Haha
GimmeGimmeGimmeGimmeGimmeGimmeGimme!!!!!!
See? Breaking off into factions already. We need unity people.
We are a Big Tent! Minnows vs worms vs flies? They all catch fish, don't they?
Saltwater vs freshwater fish? Are they not all fish?
Catch and release vs Eat 'Em Now!? The catch and releasers are just helping the Eat 'Em Now! faction.
See...we can work together!
Ok, maybe you're right. I am a shrimper myself.
If anyone wants to include whalers though, that may be my breaking point.
Whaling is not fishing. And we include shrimpers.
Captain Paul Watson agrees with you. Overfishing, global pollution, global warming and basic greed are now depleting all species and destroying this planet.
Fresh vs. Frozen factions?
I just had a can of "wild caught Alaska" pink salmon for lunch.
I...I...just don't have an answer. But someone might swipe your lunch and use it for bait
Too late!
I could eat it every day! However, I do prefer fresh or fresh frozen, broiled with scads of butter, fresh lime pulp, and enough Cajun seasoning to reach out and slap you before you put the first bite in your mouth.
That's odd. I'm suddenly starving.
I grilled salmon one night...actually Mr Giggles grilled it...but I made a glaze for it. My friend J raved over it and still does only now I don't remember how to recreate it. I know there was teriyaki and honey involved....
Copper River Salmon are the very best salmon on earth.
I have it for lunch several days a week. Chop up a green onion and a stalk of celery, add them in the bowl with the salmon, sprinkle on a little garlic powder, mix it all with some mayo and put it on a slice of bread or crackers. Salmon salad sandwich. my favorite lunch. Today, however, the wife made it into a pattie, and grilled it like a tuna melt sandwich with a slice of my lactose-free cheese. A special treat!
Salmon melts for everyone can be our slogan!
Damned gulls attacked and ate my lunch and catch more than once.
I've found that fighting back with a stick, spear, sword or shotgun works.
Heard a story once about a guy that hated seagulls so much that he would tie three pronged hooks to either end of a three foot piece of baited line and send them off to eternity together when two took the bait.
That's just sick.
There were tales around here that people would feed them, I think it was alka seltzer or mentos or something. Supposedly they would fizz up and kill the gull.
Funny. And great! Who wouldn't want to join a party that has that slogan? A chicken in every pot. Salmon melts for everyone!
Will there be Beer?
Fishing = Beer IMHO.
Is it really fishing if there's no beer involved?
I prefer my Jack straight. Especially while ice fishing.
The best platform for fishing is, IMO, a dock. For example, note that I am standing on my dock with the necessary essentials for fishing - rod, reel, worms in the small container at my feet, and a Heinekins (so charger and Dulay are right about that).
Contrary to some of my friends here on NT, I am a "catch and eat" person. Catch the bass in the morning and pan fry their fillets for lunch - there's nothing better than VERY fresh fish.
Where was this picture taken, it looks so relaxing!
It was right in front of my lakeside home, on Gull Lake, Haliburton Lake District of Ontario. My boat is docked where I was standing in the other photo.
Love it!
Very nice place, Buzz
I experienced shrinkage just looking at that picture. no cold water for me.
It wasn't so cold in the summer, although it is a very deep lake in which lake trout found a home (I never tried to catch one because for me trolling is boring), with a limestone base so that it counteracted the acid rain, and was tested often by the government for its purity. Although it was safe to drink using an under-sink filtration unit, there was a pure water spring nearby that we went to with 5-gallon containers for our drinking water. Of course it froze in the winter, and lots of ice-fishing huts appeared on it, so we cleared the snow in front of our winterized home and flooded the ice for smoothness, and skated on it.
says a canadian... yeah, sure, uh-huh ... no thanks.
I guess this isn't a picture of you. LOL
canadian hot tub
Yeah, the people here can't figure out why I don't dress as warmly as they do in cold weather.
Same here,
, at 60 degrees they think its winter.
my BIL in south texas won't leave the house if the temp drops below 65 degrees
A friend of mine in college was from Moscow. He wore shorts when it was in the 20s and there was snow on the ground. He might wear a light jacket in winter, but never a heavy coat.
Lol minus 9 here today with 3 inches of snow and still not wearing a winter jacket, fingers were a little chilly though
Ok, I came across this...
I found an old pic where I was fishing....
Embarrassing but this was a long time ago. Haha
looks like me in the 70's
The style in the 70s was certainly unique. I was running around in terry cloth shorts sets and halter tops.
Well, shorts are longer now.
On another note, both of those bridges were destroyed by hurricane Katrina.
The one in the distance, the Ocean Springs bridge, I guess because of age and the way it was built, when driving across it cars would bounce up and down.
those tops didn't halt me from leering, then I graduated to tube tops in the 80's ...
Those big assed sunglasses helped.
I had those in the 80s
... still to this day. ultra dark or reflective lenses, face turned slightly away, eyes back towards target undressing it. yup. sorry ladies, can't help it.
LOL, must be from the late 60's - judging from your hair.
bless you
Trying to look like Eddie Van Halen...Haha
I was posing as Randy Rhodes.
... face slightly downward swiping the smart phone while staring straight ahead. yeah, I've totally got the lecherous old man down pat.
I'm a catch and release. But I haven't fished in years. This is a picture of the last fish my late husband caught, it was the last time we were on the boat before he passed. This was on taken on the Niagara River...straight ahead is Strawberry Island...to the right (but you can't see) is Canada and to the left (which you can't see) is Grand Island
Here is the best trout fishing spot I have ever fished:
Do you fish directly beneath the dam?
See the eddy at the right of the island? The turbine is on one side to the island and the other side is natural river current. That eddy is chock full of 12"+ rainbow trout, prefect pan size. They sit in that eddy and wait for their dinner. 3 of my friends and I hit that spot on our way out from a one week hiking/camping trip upriver and we all took our limit in about 30 minutes.
There are brown trout upriver the size of your arm...alas, all too smart to bite no matter what we offered.
fishing the eddys in moving water always pays off big
Most of the time it does.
But about 2+ miles upriver from that spot, there is a large campsite and just upriver from it there is a eddy that sits under an overhang. We threw every form of bait, lure and fly at a 2' brownie for DAYS. If that fish had a shoulder it would have been brushing it off. Nothing NADA. On of my buddies said she was going to put a knife in her teeth and dive for it. We got a little cray cray over that smug fish. At one point a guy came along the other side of the river to fly fish. He hit the area where the brownie was and all 6 of us put a hex on that poor dude. If we couldn't have that brownie, we didn't want anyone else to catch him either...
If God had meant me to fish, she would not have invented Long John's Silver.