Fishing Has Evolved into a Multi-billion Dollar Industry
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Here's why, this one will throw you for a loop. Just the other day I was out with a buddy doing, what else, fishing. He had a problem with his line, (it had crossed itself while he was re-stringing his reel the night before) and after we got the line straightened out, he tried to use it anyway. You 
know, trying to conserve and recycle. It wasn't working out for him. That's not it.
So he decided to remove the twisted and mangled section of his line. My buddy cut the line which left about an eight foot section. He was straight-linin' a chunk o' night crawler. (A snelled bait-holder hook, a split-shot sinker and half a night crawler) He tied the end of the line to the lanyard on the deck we were fishing from and threw the other end in the water. He says "Might as well try to catch a fish while I'm re-stringing. You never know." Now that's efficiency.
That's when I laughed and re-focused my attention on my fishing. As you might have guessed already, when he was finished re-stringing his rod & reel, he decided to pull his line up and yep, you guessed correctly, he had a bluegill hooked on the other end.
Trust me. I would never have been able to make that up.
Lately I have been researching different methods of using what I have been using in the past. (Mix this with that and that with this) I was showing my buddy different types of combinations I had come across and he just shook his head and laughed. He's and old fashioned kind of fisherman. That's not to say he won't try something new and continue to use it, if it works.
It just blew my mind later when I got to thinking about it. Guys (And girls) buy all this expensive fish finding equipment; life like lures and top of the line bass boats and my fishing buddy ties a line, a hook and a worm to the dock, like ol' Huck Finn and catches him a fish. Go figure.
Just goes to show you, the basics always work.
We happened to be fishing one of the smallest ponds I have ever fished. It's privately owned and man-made. My buddy keeps telling me of giant bluegill and crappie, but I have yet to see these elusive creatures. It's not that I don't believe him; I just haven't seen any caught yet.
So he decided to remove the twisted and mangled section of his line. My buddy cut the line which left about an eight foot section. He was straight-linin' a chunk o' night crawler. (A snelled bait-holder hook, a split-shot sinker and half a night crawler) He tied the end of the line to the lanyard on the deck we were fishing from and threw the other end in the water. He says "Might as well try to catch a fish while I'm re-stringing. You never know." Now that's efficiency.
That's when I laughed and re-focused my attention on my fishing. As you might have guessed already, when he was finished re-stringing his rod & reel, he decided to pull his line up and yep, you guessed correctly, he had a bluegill hooked on the other end.
Trust me. I would never have been able to make that up.
Lately I have been researching different methods of using what I have been using in the past. (Mix this with that and that with this) I was showing my buddy different types of combinations I had come across and he just shook his head and laughed. He's and old fashioned kind of fisherman. That's not to say he won't try something new and continue to use it, if it works.
It just blew my mind later when I got to thinking about it. Guys (And girls) buy all this expensive fish finding equipment; life like lures and top of the line bass boats and my fishing buddy ties a line, a hook and a worm to the dock, like ol' Huck Finn and catches him a fish. Go figure.
Just goes to show you, the basics always work.
We happened to be fishing one of the smallest ponds I have ever fished. It's privately owned and man-made. My buddy keeps telling me of giant bluegill and crappie, but I have yet to see these elusive creatures. It's not that I don't believe him; I just haven't seen any caught yet.