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

[RSM789]

I had heard that about South Florida.  More bass for you

 

Another way to look at this is from a retail point of view.  I often read on this forum about buying fishing gear from Dick's Sporting goods.  Well, in Orange County, we have about 6 DSG's to serve a population of over 3 million people and only 1 of those stores carries any fishing gear.  Not bass gear, ANY fishing gear.  DSG believes the cost of allocating space for fishing gear in a majority of their stores here is not a good financial decision.

 

Even more stunning is if you look at the So Cal counties of L.A., Orange & San Diego, population of over 16 million.  All those people, home to 16 of the 25 largest bass ever caught and exactly zero Bass Pro Shops.  The closest one is about 90 minutes inland from the coast, as you get closer to the local mountains.  I'm sure there have been marketing studies done with Johnny Morris just sitting there reading them, shaking his head saying "A store in that location just won't make money..."

 

 

[OkobojiEagle]

PETA country?

 

 

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[RoLo]

HOOK-SETS ARE FREE

 

(Really?)

When Mat-Punching with a 2-oz tungsten weight, flogging away at everything can be downright hazardous.

When a heavy weight takes flight, you better cross-your-legs. If it's flying low to the water, there goes your gelcoat!

 

There are other costs as well.

Due to false hook-sets I made in Rodman Reservoir, a couple of my expensive crankbaits are still embedded in stumps.

 

Roger

[PAGreg]

The funniest thing I've ever heard while fishing was from a ski boat. Coldsvt and I were on one of the finger lakes and a ski boat was pulling a young boy on a tube. The entire time they are flying down the lake another boy on the boat is screaming to the driver "Kill him! Kill him!" He just kept screaming it until he got hoarse and Coldsvt and I were falling over from laughter.

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

While fishing at the neighborhood docks, some ole guy stopped and asked what I was using. I replied,'plastic worm',and guy looked at me kind of strange and replied, 'them things don't work'

[*Hootie]

While fishing at the neighborhood docks, some ole guy stopped and asked what I was using. I replied,'plastic worm',and guy looked at me kind of strange and replied, 'them things don't work'

Just curious young feller, how do you define "ole guy"? Anyone over.....

I remember when my younger brother thought middle age was 25. He was just 16 at the time.

Hootie

[hatrix]

I don't really know since everyone says dumb stuff. I guess the most common is "did you just catch that?" and "is that a real fish?" In reality there is actually no real fish involved and they are talking about swimbaits. It's even more ridiculous when its a jointed hard bait with giant trebles hanging off. Sometimes I wonder what people think real fish look like and if they have ever actually seen one other then a filet in a store.

[Trek]

I use to fish Federation for years. I ended up with hundreds of guys in my boat I never met before. Some were pretty good fisherman and some were pretty green. I drew this guy from his home lake in July and as we were sitting in the boat getting ready to go out  he asked me " are we going to do any bed fishing ? " I thought to myself this is going to be an interesting day. He ended up not being that bad of a fisherman. He just asked dumb questions.

[ChrisWi]

I was pitching docks in a Marina and a guy accused me of trying to snag salmon.

[OK Bass Hunter]

Nothing I'm here gonna bite a lure that size. Three fish later, I think I changed his mind.

[Patrick Morrow]

My friend was reading a fishing magazine and inside there were couple pictures of catches and most of them had some specific rapala lure, I don´t remember which one, in the mouth. At the last page of magazine there was commercial for that lure and my friend stated that this is going to be his must-buy lure before we head out next time. Then I had some explaining to do..

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

Just curious young feller, how do you define "ole guy"? Anyone over.....

I remember when my younger brother thought middle age was 25. He was just 16 at the time.

Hootie

He was in his mid to upper 60's

[CarolinaBoy4Life]

Fishing a swimbait last year at a city pond here in NC near some hiking trails with some buddys. A guy comes walking up while were fishing and asks if I'm fishing for a whale cause the bait I have ain't gonna catch anything. It's too big for the fish. I'm fishing with a 6in Hudd. Next cast I hook into a 6lb bass. Look over at the guy and asked "Well looks like I found a new species of whale here in NC".

[Hattrick7]

Fishing my community lake I've actually had people say "Oh did you catch that here?"

[a1712]

Ike; I thought this was a community hole?

KVD; Yeah, but you're not a part of the community.

KVD turns to the camera man after Mike takes off in a huff and says" Me and Mike don't get along". Brian.

[frankiebass]

- C'mon it's not that fat!

  That fish is sick and surely has a stomach bug...

[FrogFreak]

I was fishing early one weekday morning between the docks and a swimming platform of a small resort on my home lake when the owner tells me I can't fish between the docks and the swim platform. I mean it was like 6am on a Tuesday and no one was around. He said he knew no one was there but later that day he had people coming. I kindly told him I wouldn't be there long and kept fishing.

[SDbassin]

I was fishing a local lake a few years ago, actually my first time fishing for bass. Within 20 minutes of fishing the bank I landed my first ever bass and right as I lipped the fish a wife and husband were going by in kayaks 20 yards from shore and she yelled "nice halibut!" the husband turned and said to the wife "halibut don't live here, it looks like a 10 pound carp, nice carp bud." Another angler fishing for bass like 30 yards from me turned to me right after that and said, "ya, nice 10 pound carp bud." We both almost died from laughing so hard, the bass probably wasn't bigger than 2 pounds!

[mjseverson24]

last year for opener, I wen to a small reservoir chain. I typically carry about 30 rods with me, and since it was opener I had all hands on deck. Over the course of an 8 Hr fishing trip I was told 4 times by 4 different people that MN law says you can only use 1 rod and that I was breaking the law. Each time I tried to correct the person and let them know it was just using one rod at any given time, but most thought I was just crazy. The last guy was very insistent that I was wrong so he calls up the sheriff telling him about me "breaking the law", so within an hour here comes a sheriff boat coming to investigate the claim and obviously he sees that I am not committing a crime all the while the guy on the boat that called it in was yelling at me from about 100ft away " I told you, you were going to get in trouble, but you wouldn't listen would you." If that wasn't bad enough apparently this guy had been drinking, and when the sheriff went over to his boat to inform him of the actual law he ended up giving the guy a DUI... what kind of idiot calls a sherif when you are intoxicated operating a boat...

 

Mitch

[WillKirkgard]

"I'm gonna slap it on you so hard today that your girlfriend is going to ask who abused you when you get back home" -Fishing guide in Alaska

 

"Do fish eat fishing line?" -Dumb friend

 

"Who can actually spend 100 dollars only on lures?" - Ex-girlfriend... Putting an emphasis on the ex part

[scaleface]

Some of the best ones come from fellow bass anglers.

 

I was fishing a shallow rocky hump and  a bass boat is running fast right toward it. Im standing there waving my arms at him , I dont want him to tear up his rig. He stops and ask whats the matter. I tell him hes about to hit bottom. He says "I know, I hit it yesterday."

 

Im working my way down the bank and a bass angler pulls right in front of me and starts casting. Im peed but remain friendly. I ask if hes doing any good and he replies " Yesterday , I caught a 6 lber right where I cut you off."

 

Im fishing this spot and a tournament angler comes barreling in, shuts off his motor and ask "Are you fishing this spot?'

[Felix77]

"yeah, sushi".

Now that is funny! LMAO

[lmbfisherman]

"There is fish here?" - As I reel in a 3 lb bass.

"Why do you need so many rods?" - While pond fishing from the bank, I just missed a fish on a spinnerbait and picked up my texas rigged worm and proceeded to catch a largie seconds after.

[lmbfisherman]

Oh and forgot this while fishing for panfish this guy goes...."I caught a trout!"  I was like there are no trout in this water.  Few minutes later he yelled "Another TROUT!"  When I looked over this time, it was no trout, it was a 12" large mouth.  I tried to educate him, but he was adamant even though I showed him the differences on the fishing regulations page.  He said "They aren't large mouth they don't taste that good, I know how Trout tastes."

 

I walked away. 

[sprint61]

"You won't catch nothing on that rubber thing."

My grandma used to tell me that all the time, but she's a cane pole red worm kind of women.