" you should have been here yesterday we killed them!" My instant reply is you should have been here last week! And the proverbial " dude this thing is moving and its big!" When the big one is brought to the boat it is a stick. That is always good for the rest of the day.

Weeds don't swim man!

I'm trying to unhook a little bluegill. Random lady walks by. ("Is that a bass?")

people

Killin' 'em floating with the #1 trout guide on the White River with ghoti and Long Mike,

a "pretend to be a guide" with clients nearly ran over us basically in the middle of the

river (what a clown). As he paseed and we hooked up a double, we overheard the guide

explainin why they had not caught a fish:   "We have been fishing close  to the dam and

the water is just too cold for these trout."

 

 

 

 

"Too cold for trout"...I love it when I hear that 

A guy unhooked a bowfin, on a fishing pier, it's flopping all over the place.  A really intelligent female tourist hollers at her friends to come see the walking catfish.

Are there even fish in here? Get that all the time at my local lake. One lady who's always walking her dog there on my lunch break asked me if I worked and had a job lol

Whatever RoadWarrior says.

A old man almost tackled me out of my kayak while I was about to paddle into a pond, and was screaming at me "This pond is for canoes only!"...I couldn't even believe what I heard.

i like it when people ask "can you really fish out of that kayak?"

the smart** in me wants to say no the depth finder is so i don't run ashore or hit an iceberg and the 6 rods you see are actually masts for the sail.....

but of course i say oh yeah and move along....

"That bait is too big for a bass to eat"

Lol...i caught 9 inch bass on 6+ inch baits

"Those things don't work, those things are just for show. I like to have fun when I fish"   LMAO! As he started his motor and took off I said.... " I have fun!"  LOL! 

"I know this place that's loaded with huge bass!"

I forgot about the crazy duck people where I fish.....watched them throw and heard the baby ducks into a pond I fish and when asked why they ran them out of the bushes where the mom duck had them their reply was "because now they will be much safer in the water" up until the bigger bass in the pond ate them all. Yeah, that worked out great for them.  Also seen them try to get a duck out of the talen's of a Coopers Hawk.  Needless to say, the duck didn't make it as the hawk flew off.  Their response "someone needs to do something about these hawks eating the ducks".......umm it's called nature.

Fishing with my cousin in the marsh around the Rigolets when growing up in Louisiana and we had not had a bite in an hour.

 

So he turns to me and says "there are no fish here," when his rod bends in half and he nails a beautiful sheepshead.

 

To this day when I am not catching anything and plan to move I always say on my last cast, "there are no fish here," with the hope that a large bass will hit my bait as the sheepshead did for my cousin.

My buddy took me to a private lake he had access to. I put on a watermelon plastic worm and cast it. He said that color never did any good in that lake. 3 minutes later and about my fifth cast I put a three pounder in the boat.

I get comments all the time about my Tough Skin motor cover,  my favorite was from a guy that said you know you will burn your motor up if you keep running it with the cover on it after I already explained to him it was designed to protect cowling and the motor could be run with it on.   

 

However the the silliest comment ever was made by ME, while running Lake Okeechobee with my buddy Brett.  I  said, "You have to be careful here (Inidan Praire Canal) as you run across it during low water conditions cause you can run aground and its hard bottom"........moments later I run the boat aground while crossing it, thankfully I was idiling.  

"Those things don't work, those things are just for show. I like to have fun when I fish"   LMAO! As he started his motor and took off I said.... " I have fun!"  LOL! 

 

Have fun with that 6lb fluoro and a drop shot while Don sticks another DD

i like it when people ask "can you really fish out of that kayak?"

the smart** in me wants to say no the depth finder is so i don't run ashore or hit an iceberg and the 6 rods you see are actually masts for the sail.....

but of course i say oh yeah and move along....

That's great!!!

 

I like when i'm in my Jackson Tuna which is a tandem and people say "Is that made for two people?", as they look at the 2 seats...

Hey, guess the weight  . . . . .

 

So what do you think this one weighs ?

 

I didn't see it, but that had to be at least . . . . . .

 

A-Jay

Today as I was fishing from my boat, a woman in a passing party boat said "Catch a trout for me".  This lake is 12 feet deep at its deepest, the water temperature never goes below 55 degrees and since being built in 1970something, has never had a trout stocked in it.  I almost made a comment about a trouser trout, but bit my tongue - I guess I am finally beginning to mature... 

 

Later, another party boat pulled up behind me as I was landing a bass.  I was treated to a standing ovation from the five (liquored up) people aboard as the driver said "yeah, sushi".

 

Bass fishing is not really part of Southern California culture...

Im responsible for this as I said it myself. Last time I went fishing, roughly a month ago it was around 55 degrees air temp, no telling how cool the water was, wind was blowing about 20 milesn an hour. After not getting a thing on live bait after 20 minutes, I decided to go to my panfish jig. I said to myself "you gotta be kidding yourself, 20 mph wind, cool water, and a 1/16 jighead...... no way am I going to catch anything, a complete waste of time and gas to get here, but ill throw a my trusty panfish jig out just to say I tried...." low and behold, about the second cast after I said that to myself, I hooked up with a solid 2.5 lb largemouth(and ended up with a couple nice drum afterwards as well).

Several of the lakes I fish have the size limit clearly marked at different places around the lake.  I never fails that I will catch a dink, and someone will ask me "I'll take it if you are just going to throw it back".

To put it nicely, I've had some pretty interesting... Uh... city folk ask lots of silly questions about my gear.

I think some of them assume anyone with more than 2 poles is automatically a famous pro. Also it can be kind of disconcerting to have a small crowd approach you as you're taking the kayak out of the water... Thankfully so far it's just been curiosity though.

This comment always makes me smile, "I had a 10 pounder break my line last week".

Another fav

"Its not supposed to rain"