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Well I do want to be a fisherman as I get older for possibly 3 years or so. I want to own my own boat and everything, but right now I got nothing >_>.

fishing is the most boring thing of my life

btw what is "rough" shooting? is it shooting but "rough"?

I caught a Ceolocanth with my little finger once.

I caught Herpes. What? Wrong thread? Oh.

I am a fisherman: I often fish in Italian's torrents (they are fantastics, but the last flood ruined them) and I fish a lot of fish!!! My favourite are the graylings and the brown trouts. I hate the salmon trouts: in Italy they live in the lakes and they are combative like the brown trouts. I also like fishing in the sea.

My mum fishes. Dunno why. I find it OK once in a while, but we haven't gone fishing since about a year ago.
She caught a shark once, a small one. It was tasty...
But mostly all we get off the Oceanside pier are mackerels. Last time we went fishing, we must've caught at least sixty.

Is it actually legal to eat caught fish over there?

I occasionally catch fish on the local research vessel Callista, mostly as by-catch. Because of the speed of ascent, they explode. Not exactly popping, but their organs expand such that their intestines are bulging from their vents, so will not survive for long. We usually turn them into feed for the various fish and invertebrates we're currently studying in the aquarium.

sorry it took so long to reply.
 

before i answer any questions, i wish to apolagise to any members who i may of insulted in previous posts throughout these forums. i was crude and immature, and you have my word i will never ever be doing it again.
back to topic;

everyone has to start someplace, i first started fishing with my grandad at 5 years old!! so if a 5 year old can do it, you certainly can!

'rough' shooting is a country sport where you shoot pests for sport (humanely ofcoarse) in an unspecified area (like a farm, a friends stables, fields of crops, maybe even someones big garden, with permission), and consists of shooting pigeons, rats, and rabbits mainly. if you shot a duck (in shooting season, otherwise its illegal) for example, you would not be 'rough' shooting but 'small game' shooting, 'rough' i would assume stands for rough terrain. this sport can be done using shotguns, air rifles, and small rim-fire rifles, anything bigger, and you'd probably be 'hunting'.

im puzzled, what is a Ceolocanth?

what shark was it? a beagle shark?

sorry about double posting, but this fascinates me. what do you do exactly?

molluck's assistant, please use the Edit button in the future to add to posts rather than double-posting.

I study marine biology with oceanography. University student.

A coelocanth is a sort of "Living-fossil". From what I heard it's a type of fish that has survived for millions of years or so. I might be wrong though.

Here's a neat picture of one, not sure if it's dead and out of water or a sculpture though :/.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/zoologymuseum/...coelacanth.jpg

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm pretty sure It's alive and underwater XD.

No, it is one of two modern species not represented by the fossil record. It is called a "living fossil" because no fossils representing the Coelacanthiformes have been found in rocks from the end of the Cretaceous to the present, and before the discovery of living representatives were thought to be outright extinct. All of the fossil species are extinct, but descriptions such as "living fossil" can and do mislead people into thinking that they are an ancient species that have not evolved.

That picture is either a model or a preserved specimen, no way can a shot like that be made of a living animal.

Never try Australian barramundi. It's watery and oily and tastes like crap.

I've caught a 18" Bass before. I didn't really like the taste of it.

I thought it meant a species that has changed relatively little over a very long period of time, like Tuataras. Or am I wrong as well?

I haven't been able to fishing often, but I've caught a couple of Pike, among other things.

It's creepy how that reminds me of a Pokémon...

quite true...maybe magicarp. oh dear, i know too much pokemon!

really? well each to their own. i heard its one of the best fish to eat, but then again i dont like cod. i think its tasteless and over rated (also over fished), but haddock, on the other hand, is a different kettle of fish (excuse the pun).

i will remember that. Austarlia does seem to have the most 'bizarre' fish in the world.

bloody good picture there!

i think you should take over this thread!

...no...dont, please. lol
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I never got what pulls people into fishing (pun, ha ha). Sitting at the water with a fishing rod, doing next to nothing for a few hours? I do not see the fun in that.

Well I've gone fishing a few times and I only caught a fish like twice. I always put them back unless I'm fishing at a fish farm. My favourite fish (so far) is salmon for sure. Sure it's boring but when the fish bites that is pretty exciting. And your not necsesarily sitting and waiting. You might be using a spinner and then you'll have to pull it in slowly. Or you might be fly fishing (Never tryed that).
What is the difference between rough shooting and hunting other than using a small gun. I for one detest hunting. Shoot a fly instead. If you can.

the other difference between 'rough' shooting and 'hunting' is that in 'rough' shooting, you get whatever you find as long as its classed as vermin or pests.
'hunting' is where you literally hunt or wait for a specific big game like deer. but i have never taken part in 'hunting' and i never will for as long as i live. to kill something so big and beautifull seems a crime, and there not classed as pests anyway! also fox hunting really winds me up, because its just damn cruel!

i do take part in 'rough' shooting from time to time on the farm, but strictly for pest control. and i have plenty of experience so they are killed quickly and humanely. its not fun, its pest control and a sport.

do not think of me as a barbaric 'heathen', and its kinder than poison (which makes them very ill before they die), this way they are dead before they know whats happened.

this thread is not meant to offend, and is not for testosterone fueled lunatic hillbillies, its a discussion on country sports in general, providing tips and info.

how come they are pests?

to be honest you are kinda a pest with all this double posting so should i go and try and "rough" shoot you?

Relicanth, anyone?

That pic looks kinda fake to me. The lighting. That is not a photo of a real fish. And the background's kinda screwy and pixellated in comparison to the fish. The fins also look too thick. I'd say model+fake/added on background.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/zoologymuseum/...coelacanth.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/cont.../Relicanth.png

Yes they do look very similar.

Coelacanths are a Lazarus Taxon, not a living fossil.

Well, here's one of the modern species, Latimeria spp.

And three extinct species, Macropomoides orientalis, late Cretaceous; Rhabdoderma elegans, late Carboniferous; Allenypterus montanus, early Carboniferous; linky (Clack, 2002)

Tuataras, like coelacanths they have two extant species of the same genus, and underwent significant differentiation in the mesozoic.

The photo is either not real or not living. They live in very deep water and die at the surface, and cannot be kept in captivity.

I did not know you had hillbillies in England.

Noticed that the photo of the Coelacanth does not cast much of a shadow in relation to the very bright light, very odd.

It does, the shadow is behind. Camera flash.

Many people in Texas kill deer because of over population. If they don't get a bullet through the heart, they'll starve to death.

Isn't it sad that this is the most interesting thread on the forum? Anyhow, I once speared a catfish. Surprised me I think as much as it did the fish.

excellent video, brilliant contribution!

lol, yes! but i would recommend a machine-gun, because i will run...a lot!:D

i was waiting for this question to pop up. when a gardener finds a plant that he does not like, or that makes the garden suffer, he will call it a weed. if he wants to grow nettles, he would call a bluebell a weed, and vice versa. therefore meaning that 'weeds' are just a point of veiw, but are always unwanted.

its exactly the same for pests, if you have a shed full of pigions, a rat would be a pest as it would eat the bird seed. if you had a shed full of rats (strange, i know), a pigion would be a pest as it would also eat the rat feed (dont take it literally, just an example). so on a farm, (which is the sort of place you would do 'rough' shooting), im afraid rats, pigions and rabbits all contribute to eating crops and livestock feed, making them pests. i would go into the painstaking details of how much money an average farm would lose every year due to these 'pests' if they were left to it, but im tired. maybe another time.

yes, i think its safe to say it is. but Metroixer did say himself that he thought it looked fake.

@Disgruntled intern;
very, very good point, and for once i dont know what to say...:confused:

@Old and not so tasty;
i'll take that as a compliment:D
jesus!! how did you manage that, and where??
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I'm not sure how it's sad, fishing (not to sure bout Rough shooting) is a very interesting subject to talk about :). Oh and secondly, nice job on the catfish. Did you actually try or just did it without much thought, and just got it by really lucky chance?

It was close to midnight and I was holding the metal pole we usually used to tie the boat to the dock. I saw a catfish go under the pier and I just spontaneously threw the pole at it. Later I stuck it on the pole, put the pole in the ground, and stuck a cigarrette in the fish's mouth. I was 14.

I've been Noodling a few times, and I love it.

Fishing is still one of my favorite things to do. There's nothing better than renting a piece of shit boat, riding out into the middle of a lake, casting your line and drinking beer with a couple of friends for the whole day. I'm a catch and release kind of guy, though.

I went fishing when I was younger, and I enjoyed it. However, when I saw that I killed a fish, I felt very guilty and haven't done it since.

Man I should grow some balls someday.

yes, sometimes it happens, but usually only when your still learning to fish, keep at it and it wont happen again.

forgive me if i am being ignorant, but what is Noodling?:confused:

and im with you all the way with the 'havin a few tins, fishing all day'! i dont see the point in killing your catch either, unless you really need to eat.

good skill! but i think putting a fag in its gob is going a bit too far.
when i kill pests, quickly and humanely, people dislike me for that sometimes, but its not fun at all, its pest control. so it annoys me that i get moaned at for that, and yet i dont painfully spear pests then place a cigerette in their mouth afterwards probably while their still dying, in a sort of mocking way.

sorry OANST, but i respectfully disagree with your 'fishing' technique.
no offence meant what-so-ever.

That was the whole point of me pointing out that I was 14. It's not the sort of thing I would do now.

I dont like fishing. :/

...and if you do accidentally kill a fish, makes good bait! :P We did that with a little perch, huge beast perch attacks within moments, and...gone. Line, and my trace. That was my dad's fault though.

Though nowadays, I'd more likely keep the fish and put it in a jar of formaldehyde rtaher than use it as a bait.