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

[TyTheAngler]

"Weights Scare Away Bass"

[S Hovanec]

While tied up at the dock, I had someone ask "how deep of water can you go in that boat?"

I told him "only 50'. Any deeper and i have to turn around".

He said "oh, that's pretty good!"

Managed to do it with a straight face too, meanwhile I'm dieing inside!

[Alpha Male]

I was fishing last year with my wife who hunts and fishes almost as much as I do. She has no problem gutting a dear or pheasant. So anyway we have our limit of walleye and were looking for sunnies and crappies when she catches a medium sunnie, lifts it in the boat and as soon as she gets her hand around it she screams, "Oh My God, Ewww" and throws to fish back in the lake and shaking her hands off and then says,"its missing an eye,you have to unhook it for me!"

I haven't let her live that one down for a while. The socket was still pink so I don't think it had been too long since it lost the eye.

[fishinphilly]

one time i was fishing a small creek for smallies in the summer only about 10-15 inches but its nice for a hot day and i usually catch around 25-30, well i was walking a trail and some older lady was jogging and i caught one about 12 inches and she couldn't really speak english and said ohh nice fish how many you catch and i told her today i caught about 12 so far and she got upset with me like i was lying to her and started arguing with me tell me to stop lying about it but she wasn't being friendly about it and i kept telling her i have no reason to lie to you but she insisted i was lying so i just moved on. Crazy person!

 

another time, this probably happens to everyone, but i was fishing a 5.5 in swim bait during the shad spawn and a couple comes over while I'm reeling in asking me if i caught anything and when i reel up they see the swim bait and swear I've just caught a fish, i had to hold it in my hand and show them it was just a lure and the guy said to me "you aren't gonna catch anything with that"

 

fun times!

[Felix77]

"White rods blend in with the sky so the fish can't see it."

[powerduster]

Game warden: "the only thing living in this pond are pike. all the other fish were eaten."

Me: "wow, did not know that. i wonder how that happened."

[FunkJishing]

"White rods blend in with the sky so the fish can't see it."

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? that's bad man lol.

[Brent Christian]

Before i had a licenses i was bad about still leaving at 530 to walk to a local lake, evertime i would get stopped cops would ask "You boys going fishing?" No sir were just walking aroud with fishing poles for no reason, needless to say they didn't like that answer lol

[Bluebasser86]

I put this trailer on my spinnerbait because it has salt in it which makes the plastic sink faster so it makes my spinnerbait run deeper... 

 

[basscatcher8]

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."

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was with my uncle fishing on the white river on july 4th weekend and we launched in white hole and just stayed there cause there wasnt much water being pushed through the dam so hard to get any where. A bunch of guides were setup next to the ramp waiting for clients. While we were fishing there within earshot of the ramp I wish I had a recorder for the crazy crap I heard them guides spewing to their clients and it was getting eatin up. I had to laugh. If your a good showman you can survive guiding on the white river.

[96ecss]

This didn't happen while fishing, but it's about fishing so I'll share it.

 

I was at a party at my cousins house. I was talking to my brother and my cousin about going fishing the next day. A guy who I never met before who was friends with my brother walks over and says to me "you go fishing?" I said yes. He started laughing and said "you fish all day and only catch 1 fish". I'm wondering who this guy is and where he got his mis-information from.

 

I said I've had many days where I caught way more than 1 fish and told him about some of the great days I've had fishing. He stopped laughing and asked if I was serious. I said yes. He got quiet and just stood there with a dumb look on his face.  After about a minute he said "I thought people just sit by a lake all day and only catch 1 fish".

 

I offered to take him fishing and show him that I wasn't lying. He said "no thanks, I don't like fishing" and walked away. It turns out that he grew up in a city and never went fishing in his life. He just saw the people sitting on buckets on the side of a lake fishing for whatever came along and bit their worms.

 

Dave

[Dylcook91]

"I thought people just sit by a lake all day and only catch 1 fish". Dave

Reminds me of this

[96ecss]

Reminds me of this

FineLine-Fishing-Quote.jpg

The funny thing is that I was talking to my brother about getting my boat ready for the next day. If the guy was paying attention to what I was saying, he would have known I wasn't one of those sit on the bucket fishermen.

Dave

[Blues19]

This didn't happen while fishing, but it's about fishing so I'll share it.

 

I was at a party at my cousins house. I was talking to my brother and my cousin about going fishing the next day. A guy who I never met before who was friends with my brother walks over and says to me "you go fishing?" I said yes. He started laughing and said "you fish all day and only catch 1 fish". I'm wondering who this guy is and where he got his mis-information from.

 

I said I've had many days where I caught way more than 1 fish and told him about some of the great days I've had fishing. He stopped laughing and asked if I was serious. I said yes. He got quiet and just stood there with a dumb look on his face.  After about a minute he said "I thought people just sit by a lake all day and only catch 1 fish".

 

I offered to take him fishing and show him that I wasn't lying. He said "no thanks, I don't like fishing" and walked away. It turns out that he grew up in a city and never went fishing in his life. He just saw the people sitting on buckets on the side of a lake fishing for whatever came along and bit their worms.

 

Dave

thats too funny! 

[rippin-lips]

Reminds me of this

FineLine-Fishing-Quote.jpg

I have a shirt that says something similiar. Reads there's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the bank holding your rod.

While throwing an 8" triple trout last season I heard

"That's as big as the fish"

"What are you fishing for,sharks"

[everythingthatswims]

Someone saw me fishing with a swimbait (in stocked trout waters) and said "Son, what does the game warden have to say to you when he sees you using that thing since it imitates a trout?" and "It does have TWO treble hooks on it, and some of those game wardens can be quite persnickety"...How am I supposed to respond to that, the only thing you can't do in stocked trout water here is use 2 hooks with "bait" on each of them, or fish two rods at once.

[Montanaro]

I'd probably throw the hudd at him after he said persnickety.

[Nelson Wormefeller]

Someone saw me fishing with a swimbait (in stocked trout waters) and said "Son, what does the game warden have to say to you when he sees you using that thing since it imitates a trout?" and "It does have TWO treble hooks on it, and some of those game wardens can be quite persnickety"...How am I supposed to respond to that, the only thing you can't do in stocked trout water here is use 2 hooks with "bait" on each of them, or fish two rods at once.

That's the nuttiest thing I have ever heard. It's like he is quoting fishing regulations from a hundred years ago or something.

[FloridaFishinFool]

The line I always love to hear when you have a fish dangling off the line or showing off a photo of a fish you caught to hear someone say "Did you catch that?"

 

No, I did not catch that fish! It just jumped right out of the lake and right into my hands for a photo opportunity! Duh!  

[BaitMonkey1984]

I fish the same body of water at least 4 times a week from ice out till Archery Season in October. I have fished this lake, this frequency for several years and my girlfriend's family lives on the lake. Because of my time on this small body of water, I know everyone who fishes here regularly. One day, I was fishing the only real piece of structure, a sandbar in the middle of the lake that has a steep drop on one side and scattered boulders on the other. This guy pulls up in a brand new Nitro and trolls over to the side of my boat, and tells me I am fishing in his "secret spot". I laughed and laughed and laughed..

 

I told him that I fish this lake very often and I never saw him, and this isn't really anyone's "secret spot" it is a well known community hole.  He realized his attempt to bully me off my spot was not going to work and he got on the trolling motor to bully someone else off another one of his "secret spots." As he was tolling past me, he ran the trolling motor right into a submerged rock that is well known to everyone. "You think you would know where the rocks are on your secret spot." I have not seen that brand new Nitro back on the water. 

 

All he had to was pull up and cast a line, or ask me if he could fish there and we both could have caught em, no problem. He didn't have to go all KVD on me and try to bully me. I even thought about wanting him about the rock but knew his Motorguide would be fine and there would be no damage other than his pride. Still makes me laugh to this day 

[Ratherbfishing]

I fish the same body of water at least 4 times a week from ice out till Archery Season in October. I have fished this lake, this frequency for several years and my girlfriend's family lives on the lake. Because of my time on this small body of water, I know everyone who fishes here regularly. One day, I was fishing the only real piece of structure, a sandbar in the middle of the lake that has a steep drop on one side and scattered boulders on the other. This guy pulls up in a brand new Nitro and trolls over to the side of my boat, and tells me I am fishing in his "secret spot". I laughed and laughed and laughed..

 

I told him that I fish this lake very often and I never saw him, and this isn't really anyone's "secret spot" it is a well known community hole.  He realized his attempt to bully me off my spot was not going to work and he got on the trolling motor to bully someone else off another one of his "secret spots." As he was tolling past me, he ran the trolling motor right into a submerged rock that is well known to everyone. "You think you would know where the rocks are on your secret spot." I have not seen that brand new Nitro back on the water. 

 

All he had to was pull up and cast a line, or ask me if he could fish there and we both could have caught em, no problem. He didn't have to go all KVD on me and try to bully me. I even thought about wanting him about the rock but knew his Motorguide would be fine and there would be no damage other than his pride. Still makes me laugh to this day 

Borrowed (and edited) lines from Office Space:

 

"No. No, man. (heck), no, man. I believe you'd get your (hiney) kicked sayin' something like that, man."

[Jrob78]

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/149625-if-you-could-eat-a-fishing-lure-which-one-would-you-eat/

[nine]

Only dumb because I wondered if there was any some truth to it...

 

So I was bass fishing on the bank of a gravel-pit in the winter and this guy who was trout fishing it started up a conversation about his Florida record bass he won some $ for.... he managed to get me actually wondering for a second because he was specifying that is was a "rare bucketmouth strain of Florida largemouth bass". I've caught a couple bass in my 20+ years of bass fishing... but this was actually a first... I played along with it thinking he was just f.in around with me...

 

I saw the photo... nice older heavy largemouth bass... but it was in my opinion it was just a nice old larger than avg fish that wasn't obese, but just old and in great shape.

 

Then I thought about it... some of the 9 black bass species have been discovered over the last 50 years and genetically classified... (and I'm ready for the rapid-fire remarks) because this might be the oldest joke played on someone in the bass fishing culture that I don't know about... or is there actually a subspecies of the FL largemouth that is not just an older fish with a larger head... but naturally has a bigger jaw and mouth than the regular northern and Florida strains? A very rare mutation? I have caught my share of beautiful bass with melanosis... incredible black coloration... that's usually environmentally triggered. I've caught some older bass with some huge mouths... but this is something with noticeable proportions for size. Not just a lean older bass.

 

I need proof this isn't one of the better bass jokes played on ppl or maybe the guy just didn't know what the hell he talking about... but the "rare" factor was the hook of intrigue that lured me in to actually ask this one... remember I'm still thinkin it's either a joke, the guy was misinformed, or embellishing the truth. If not I hope I didn't just start a crazy search for the "Infamous Rare Biggermouth Bucketmouth Bass"... Only way I'll go farther into this one is if someone shows genetic biological evidence of this.

 

If it wasn't the dumbest bass related thing I can remember hearing recently... it's definitely got me asking one of the dumbest bass questions I've ever asked on a forum lol!

[nine]

I fish the same body of water at least 4 times a week from ice out till Archery Season in October. I have fished this lake, this frequency for several years and my girlfriend's family lives on the lake. Because of my time on this small body of water, I know everyone who fishes here regularly. One day, I was fishing the only real piece of structure, a sandbar in the middle of the lake that has a steep drop on one side and scattered boulders on the other. This guy pulls up in a brand new Nitro and trolls over to the side of my boat, and tells me I am fishing in his "secret spot". I laughed and laughed and laughed..

 

I told him that I fish this lake very often and I never saw him, and this isn't really anyone's "secret spot" it is a well known community hole.  He realized his attempt to bully me off my spot was not going to work and he got on the trolling motor to bully someone else off another one of his "secret spots." As he was tolling past me, he ran the trolling motor right into a submerged rock that is well known to everyone. "You think you would know where the rocks are on your secret spot." I have not seen that brand new Nitro back on the water. 

 

All he had to was pull up and cast a line, or ask me if he could fish there and we both could have caught em, no problem. He didn't have to go all KVD on me and try to bully me. I even thought about wanting him about the rock but knew his Motorguide would be fine and there would be no damage other than his pride. Still makes me laugh to this day 

He was "trolling" alright... sounds like he should learn how to fish before manning a nice boat like that. KVD is a trollfessional lol?

[Hyrule Bass]

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