Dumbest Or Most Silliest Things Said To You Or Heard While Fishing

[timsford]

I was talking to my dads girlfriend back during july about taking them fishing for bluegill and she said her dad told her bluegill dont live around here, only bream(a southern term for any sunfish). I let it go instead of arguing about it and said we would go for bass and she said her dad told her they went on bed and hibernated during the summer and winter and you couldnt catch them because they were asleep. I then said what about fishing for stripers and she said they dont live around here. I pulled out my phone and showed her a pic and she said see i know you didnt know anything about fishing, thats a rockfish(for some reason thats what everyone in my local area calls stripers and when i say striper everyone looks at me like i have 3 heads.) Needless to say we never went fishing and her and my dad split up. Sucks cause i really wanted to ask her dad where he got his info

[Chris S]

We had a group outing here in KC and we fished a Lake in the middle of BFE south of Topeka, I had two walleye in my live well and had already pulled the plug and drained, as I was pulling the boat out the "bleach lady" at the ramp ask me if I had any fish in my live well I said yes two keeper walleye and I told her there was no water in my live well.

 

Her reply you cant take live fish out of this lake they have to be dead, I said there is no water in the live well, she they have to be dead or you cant take them, I pulled out my knife and be-headed both of the right then and there, I looked at her and said ok??

[Chris S]

I was talking to my dads girlfriend back during july about taking them fishing for bluegill and she said her dad told her bluegill dont live around here, only bream(a southern term for any sunfish). I let it go instead of arguing about it and said we would go for bass and she said her dad told her they went on bed and hibernated during the summer and winter and you couldnt catch them because they were asleep. I then said what about fishing for stripers and she said they dont live around here. I pulled out my phone and showed her a pic and she said see i know you didnt know anything about fishing, thats a rockfish(for some reason thats what everyone in my local area calls stripers and when i say striper everyone looks at me like i have 3 heads.) Needless to say we never went fishing and her and my dad split up. Sucks cause i really wanted to ask her dad where he got his info

Rockfish is a North East term for stripers, never heard it either until i lived in Delaware! 

[K_Mac]

I've heard (and said) many dumb things while fishing. My all-time favorite was a number of years ago early in the spring on Bull Shoals lake. My brother and I were night fishing on a beautiful 45-50 degree evening. We were just having a fantastic night bouncing jigs down rocky banks, catching several very nice bass. On the deck of the house above us on the bluff we could clearly hear a guy talking on the phone. He was going on and on about the dumb tourists who were fishing below him; everyone knew it was way too early in the year and the water was way too cold for bass to bite at night! He made a strong case for how stupid we were, and if weren't for the incredible fishing I probably would have believed him. I still get a good laugh when I think about it some 15+ years later

[J Francho]

"Try and I try, but just can't get her to eat no squirrel."

[FunkJishing]

back during my first season of bass fishing I remember being in the boat with my friend as I see shad jumping and immediately say "hey man imma cast over to those jumps I'm seeing" and he was like "yea I see those jumps but I doubt they're bass jumps" once he finishes that statement my rods bent in half hahahaha 4 pound smallie on a bomber model A. Made him feel dumb

[Zach Dunham]

This one might top a lot of these stories:

 

One time fishing around some docks, we saw a bunch of old boats driving away from the dock very slowly, and a guy was standing on the dock with a megaphone. We asked him what was up as we were going around the dock and he told us that they were having a competition to see who could go the SLOWEST without stalling out with a pre-1968 outboard motor. At that moment, I thought I had now seen everything in the world there was to see.....

[Ratherbfishing]

"Those storm clouds are going to go around us" (Said by my friend ten minutes before the storm went around us and over us and ON TOP OF US).  I was just as dumb for listening to him.

[SirSnookalot]

How many times have I heard this one.  Going into a local bait or tackle shop, I always hear "you should have been here yesterday, they were jumpin in the boat".

[DaRy03621]

Heard a guy say in a tournament one time, "All these guys in aluminum boats follow the guys with fiberglass boats around and catch their fish."  May quite possibly be one of the dumbest statements I've heard for multiple reasons.  Plus, I own an aluminum boat.  It's not the ~300 hours I put in fishing the same lake each year, or scouting structure when the lake is half way drawn down while others are sitting in tree stands or staying inside because it's too cold, nope....I own an aluminum boat and follow everyone else around to find and catch my fish!  haha!!!

[J Francho]

"Get off my spot!"

[bkohlman]

I have a relative that asks me after every fishing trip why I didnt keep the fish to eat....not really too dumb or silly.

[HardcoreBassin]

Not sure if this is true or not...I hope it is though...

 

I had a guide in Pulaski, NY for Salmon fishing about 15 years ago.  We were sitting in the boat with the lines in the water and talking about different rigs and the weather and the water level.  He told me, "last weekend I had a couple in my boat.  I was telling them that the water level was really low, so the fishing would be slow until the water level in the river rises and the fish start to move.  The wife proceeded to lean over the side of the boat and reach to touch the water and she says, "yea, youre right, the water is really low."

[Basswhippa]

I had been making perfect casts far under a crowded Guntersville bridge with a small worm and 3/16 ounce lead bullet weight and catching some decent bass.   Feeling kind of cocky, I told my then 15 YO son "WATCH THIS" as I let the Calcutta rip.  You guessed it, The loud ping was a dead giveaway that  I had just  hit the top of the bridge square on and you could hear a big "Poof" overrun and the dying laughter of a 15 YO that knew his dad had just finished using that reel for the day.  The 3/16 ounce weight was flat as a pancake it hit so hard.  He chuckled for a while.  I'll never live that one down.

[slimshad]

Arigs are stupid, they dont catch fish...  That 10" worm is too big...  You dont need that many poles...  Can't catch a fish at 70 mph...  If its raining, I aint going...   Feb is too early to go to Guntersville...  Nitros are as good as Ranger boats...  All silly and dumb lol

[SirSnookalot]

Fishing at the jettie yesterday talking with some guy about peacocks, explaining to me how to catch them.  I asked him a good spot as he was from Pompano, his reply............."I don't know, never caught one."

[Choporoz]

Dumbest Or Most Silliest Things Said To You Or Heard While Fishing.....

 

A slow day on the rez and I took a minute to look at Bass Resource Forums on my phone...someone had started a thread titled "You're stranded on a bass lake and can only take one lure......."

[OkobojiEagle]

A slow day on the rez and I took a minute to look at Bass Resource Forums on my phone

 

 

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[Choporoz]

touche

[*Hootie]

Do you fish here all the time? No...I go home in the evening.

Hootie

[RAMBLER]

Probably the dumbest I've seen.  Fishing on the Ocklawaha river, in Florida, I came around a bend, where a 13 foot long alligator lived (I know it was 13' because the guy that got it one season told me about it) and I saw a guy sitting in the middle of the river.  Stopped and asked how he was doing.  He pulled up a stringer  that had 10 bass on it (limit is 5) all under a foot long (size limit is 14") and told me he was having a really good day.   I couldn't think of anything really sensible to say so just left.  As I went around him, I wondered who was going to get him first, the game warden or the 'gator.

[everythingthatswims]

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...

Tell that to the Big Bass Dreams crew

[Montanaro]

The ponds around here that get stocked with trout are a hot bed for low functioning humans in the spring.

People think I'm a moron because I'm not sitting on the dam with a catfish pole and red braid trying to catch stocked trout. Some even then I'm musky fishing and tell me I need to kill every one I catch cuz they be eat in the trout and the musky ain't natural here (despite it being a man made pond and the trout being the least natural fish in it.)

[RSM789]

Tell that to the Big Bass Dreams crew

They would be the first to agree. Majority of fisherman in SoCal are either saltwater or (stocked) trout fishermen. Bass fishing is just not part of the culture here, especially compared to places like Texas or the south. While there are many reasons for it, I believe the biggest to be a genuine ignorance or dislike of the outdoors. They like the weather, they love the beach, but spending an entire day hunting or fishing is a foreign concept to most who live here.

[SirSnookalot]

Even in South Florida

 

They would be the first to agree. Majority of fisherman in SoCal are either saltwater or (stocked) trout fishermen. Bass fishing is just not part of the culture here, especially compared to places like Texas or the south. While there are many reasons for it, I believe the biggest to be a genuine ignorance or dislike of the outdoors. They like the weather, they love the beach, but spending an entire day hunting or fishing is a foreign concept to most who live here.

It isn't that much different here in South Florida.  Sure there are quite a few bass fishermen from here on this site, but for the most part the emphasis is not on bass.  Driving down the street and and going by the marinas you see how many saltwater boats are here, far fewer bass boats.  The smaller tackle shops mostly stock saltwater gear.  A good portion of the population comes from the Northeast and are striper fishemen, many of them don't even know what a bass is or just fish for them in their own community ponds.