A Really Good Fishermen .

[BigPointer53]

To me a really true good fishermen is a fella that knows everything about his home waters, for example can he go down to the lake and watch the frogs migrate and turn this in his favor. Yes of course! Go catch his own leeches and understand the great feeling this is when you go out and catch a couple hundred walleyes without spending a buck on them. How about getting a shovel and going out in the cowcrap behind the barn and digging up crawlers. Seems lke fishing is getting way to complicated for some. I remember the GOOD OLD DAYS!

[Link]

Good Post. More to fishing than "just" catching the fish. That's the best part though, along with being on the water, and seeing the sun set, and sometimes seeing it rise. Sometimes the eagle flies bye. Sometimes its the first warm summer rain with no wind. That's really nice. Sometimes it's your better half catching a legal walleye that's bigger than the one you just caught and were flaunting around and bragging up. Tonite, it was picking crawlers for the first time in years. Had 11 dozen at about 45 minutes. Best catch this year yet. Enjoy the season and enjoy every part of it. Link.

[Jig'N John]

BigPointer 53,

Sometimes the good old days weren't as good as we remember them. Time has a way of blurring out the bad and just remembering the good times. How far back do we have to go before we consider it to be the "good old days"? Granted things have changed, not always for the better, but many people would consider these present times as the good old days.

Do the good old days also include:

1. Outhouses?
2. No running water?
3. No electricity?
4. Not everyone being able to afford a vehicle?
5. Most people working for minimum wage?
6. No modern conveniences, such as wash machines, T.V., modern
cook stoves, furnaces that heat your home, etc.,etc.,etc...
7. Having to fish from shore or near to it, because no one
could afford a boat?
8. Or having a boat that you had to oar from place to place,
restricting your fishing of a lake to only close to shore?
9. When people had to work most of the time and had little or
no leisure time.


The list could go on and on. The point here is that before wishing for the "good old days", think about it. Were they really all that good? Life has many stresses and pressures today, but that was true back then also, probably just different kinds. Be thankful for what you have, and don't wish your life away.

Have a good day and good luck fishing.

Jig'N John

[Hans]

Then > 1. Outhouses?

Now > Crackhouses

Then > 2. No running water?

Now > Contaminated running water

Then > 3. No electricity?

Now > Electricity prices heading toward $2.00 KWh

Then > 4. Not everyone being able to afford a vehicle?

Now > Not everyone being able to afford a vehicle, or afford to fuel it if they do have one.

Then > 5. Most people working for minimum wage?

Now > More and more people not working for *any* wage.

Then > 6. No modern conveniences, such as wash machines, T.V., modern cook stoves, furnaces that heat your home, etc.,etc.,etc...

Now > "Modern" is relative to the age in which you live.

Then > 7. Having to fish from shore or near to it, because no one could afford a boat?

Now > Ditto for the majority of the world.

Then > 8. Or having a boat that you had to oar from place to place, restricting your fishing of a lake to only close to shore?

Now > Underdeveloped kids with no shoulder/back muscles, because their Dad's have outboard motors.

Then > 9. When people had to work most of the time and had little or no leisure time.

Now > When people have to work most of the time and have little or no leisure time.

[EyeJacker]

Those would be the days before the computer, right.:-) Actually, there has been a lot of diggin' behind the barn recently, but I am not sure it was for crawlers, furthermore, if you look more closley, you will notice it is really a bull barn. :-)
Jack

[JeffC]

Down in Fort Myers FL, is Thomas Edison house and there are pictures of him on the pier fishing where it was said he never used bait because catching the fish was a interruption of his fishing. I guess the man like to relax when he was fishing. Although when you are pulling in 100 pound Tarpon I guess this could be work. Enjoy the Peace.

[Gary]

You make a good point, in some respescts fishing fun has been scarificed for profiteering. Don't ever think for a minute tournaments represent the true foundation of fishing.