I think people who can't do anything athleticly are saying fisherman are althetes so they can call themselves athletes. I can fish hard for 10+ hours a day in 90 degree heat for a week straight, and be tired at the end of each day. Does that mean I just acomplished some grueling feat of sport? No. It means I am tired at the end of a log day of fishing............who would have guessed. I have also finished higher in the standings in some tournaments than a couple of Elite pros who were in the same tournament. I don't think I am blocking Dwight Freeney successfully or taking down Chris Johnson with out a trip to the ER. Why??? Because they are professional athletes............and I am a fisherman.

I played sports in middle school, high school, and college...(I also fished tournaments in high school years, and I fished College Bass tournaments in college) I call fishing a sport because it has all the atributes of any other sport I participated in. Football is completely different from basketball, basketball is completely different from tennis, and tennis is completely different from fishing. But, I think they are all sports.

Maybe the only difference between a sport and hobby or past time is where your mind set is?

I'm not trying to tick anyone off, just trying to get my point across. I guess it's well stated that my point is I think fishing is a sport. lol No reason in trying to change anyone elses mind about something that matters so little in the scheme of life huh?

I think people who can't do anything athleticly are saying fisherman are althetes so they can call themselves athletes. I can fish hard for 10+ hours a day in 90 degree heat for a week straight, and be tired at the end of each day. Does that mean I just acomplished some grueling feat of sport? No. It means I am tired at the end of a log day of fishing............who would have guessed. I have also finished higher in the standings in some tournaments than a couple of Elite pros who were in the same tournament. I don't think I am blocking Dwight Freeney successfully or taking down Chris Johnson with out a trip to the ER. Why??? Because they are professional athletes............and I am a fisherman.

Ding, ding, ding!! we have a winner for stupidest quote of the day.. ;D ;D ;D Just so ya know i was a football player, baseball player, and basketball player, along with being a scratch golfer, and carrying a 200+ average in bowling. I don't need to fish to be called an athlete. Maybe the fact is, that the people that say fishing is not a sport , never actually played any sports competitively at all??

Again time to back your opinion up with some fact.

Farmer, if you played football since a young age and practiced year in and year out you probably would be able to block Dwight freeny! The great thing about fishing as opposed to other sports men and women young and old can compete and with a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work we too can go up against the pros.

By the way good job beating some of the big boys!

Well, guys.....sports are not always played by athletes, and not all fisherman are athletic.

You're all going to have to accept some gray area here.

As far as calling others' opinions stupid, well that pretty much kills the thread.