How Many of You Cut School to Go Fishing?

[QED]

I got the top score on the MAA exam in my city's high school district which bought me an automatic A in calculus.  So I cut school 43/44 days in my final high-school quarter/semester(?) to go fishing.  I lived next to the SJ County delta system so it was a 15 minute drive to good fishing.  One day, I brought my fishing rig and tackle box on the school bus(!) to my morning computer science class and missed my afternoon calculus class. Good times. Tom Sawyer stuff for sure.  Rebels without a clue!!!

[Big Hands]

The golf course pond and park lake that were the only really close fishing spots are right across the street from each other. . . . and right next to the high school. . . and plainly visible from the street that goes across the front of the high school. . . . and over the fence of the athletic field. And, I didn't have a car until right before graduation, so I walked to school, so I'm pretty sure everyone could plainly figure out what I was up to. LOL. Other than that, it would have been a brilliant plan ;~)

[MN Fisher]

Lived across the street from the lake when in Bemidji and we kept our boat tied up at the cross-street neighbor's dock...they had room for three...theirs on a lift, ours and another neighbor's tied up with bumpers. I also had a 17' heavy fiberglass canoe (sucker weighed about 120lbs empty) that I just pulled up on shore.

 

Never cut school, but fall and late spring (season opened only 2-3 weeks before school ended for the year) you could find me out in the boat or canoe the evenings or weekend day that I didn't work. So 2-3 evenings and either most of Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

[Hammer 4]

I only cut school twice, and that was to go Surfing. Wasn't into fishing back then.

[Bluebasser86]

I was a teacher's aide for my first block my senior year of highschool, in chemistry. I couldn't help grade any papers, and my teacher Mr. Wells was a fisherman himself and winding down on a 40 year teaching career. I was there for maybe a months worth of class total, otherwise I went fishing before school. 

[QED]

Wow, no other scofflaws among us here?  Cutting high school isn't like a felony.  In fact, during two summers in the eighties, I worked at the SJ County and Sacramento County DA's offices as a graduate legal assistant (i.e., law student) prosecuting real bad guys.

[Catt]

My high school years were in the 60s, we had gun racks in the back window of our trucks with a rifle & a shotgun. In the bed of the truck was a couple rod-n-reels & a tackle box.

 

School started at 8°clock with home room being the first hour giving us till 9°clock for a morning blast or cast.

 

Might have to show up in camo & hip boots!

[N Florida Mike]

I never did. I never skipped school once for anything , except 1/2 day the last day of high school. I was in good shape in those days, so I would run almost all the way home, sometimes taking the shortcut through the swamp if we hadnt had much rain. When I got home, Id grab a snack and my rod , and was at the lake in a few minutes…

In college at UF, that was different. Id skip fairly often and head out to one of the many lakes nearby. I always kept up somehow, and passed every class but one.

 

[Captain Phil]

I never cut school to go fishing.  However, my girl friend and I often went fishing before school.  There was a water treatment plant in the neighborhood and the outflow canal was full of bass.  When you find a girl like that, you keep her.  We will be married 57 years in November. ?

[GRiver]

I cut school….a lot! We had a place we would go hang out at called “ the back waters”  it was a kids hangout mostly at at night. During the day hardly anybody was there. 
One day 4 of us skip school, and we’re fishing at “ the back waters” when a state trooper pulls up. “ I know you boys are supposed to be in school, but since your here”

he gets in his trunk and gets a box of garbage bags. “This won’t take too long, and I won’t have to run ya in”

for the next hour or so we picked up trash. Mostly beer cans and bottles, he was nice about it, picked up trash with us. We all talked about different things, fishing, hunting ….why we were skipping school…..but it really wasn’t all that bad. Filled his car up with bags he ask us to take the rest, said good luck on the fishing and left. 
That day left a good memory

[TheBasslayer]

I am currently a Sophomore in high school, and I haven’t skipped school for anything yet. And the closest body of water is a trout stream 3 miles away.

[Catt]

28 minutes ago, Captain Phil said:

When you find a girl like that, you keep her.  We will be married 57 years in November. ?

 

 

[Spankey]

Sure I cut school. That was mid 60’s to mid 70’s when I was a kid. Was high school time when I was cutting some because I drove then. But I never missed a day of HS baseball practice over it. For spring trout fishing. An obsession since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I’ve cut work and  I still cut work these days to trout fish. It is what it is and it’s been that way for a long time. 

[ironbjorn]

I only cut school once, and that was when I was a freshman, to walk 17 miles to meet up with my then girlfriend from another school. I was thinking with the brain between my legs, and I did get to feast that day. ?

[the reel ess]

We had a senior skip day when I was in school. Actually, as long as you didn't get more than 10 unexcused absences you could fill all 10. So I took senior skip day in my sophomore, junior and senior years. Instead of going partying with the seniors I went fishing with my buddy.

[TnRiver46]

When they opened up a bass pro shop in Atlanta sometime in the late 90s, my buddy’s dad checked us out of school and drove us down there to check it out. Nowadays there’s a BPS 20 miles from home 

[Sam]

No, never cut school.

 

Fished all afternoons at Audubon Park Lagoon in New Orleans when not playing touch football with the local guys in my gang.

 

Fished weekends with my uncle and cousins in the Biloxi Marsh, Mississippi Sound, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Chandeleur Islands along with some Saturdays in the Atchafalaya marsh area.

 

All were great but I was really uncomfortable fishing the Atchafalaya in a small, metal 14-foot skiff with a 9.9 on it as the moccasins were about two feet tall when they were curled on the bank watching us float by. A few times they would be in the water and "ping" the side of the skiff when they struck it but they never got in the skiff. 

 

We called this time in our lives "the best times of our life."

[Bankc]

Times have changed.  When I was in high school in the 90's, they took attendance at the start of every class and sent that down to the principles office to verify.  If you disappeared, and the school hadn't been informed, your parents were getting a phone call.  Plus the school was monitored by police, so if you were leaving in the middle of the day, you'd get stopped and asked for a note from the principle saying it was okay.  So the only kids who cut class were the ones who's parents didn't care.  And the only way they could do that was to just not show up in the first place.  

[Skunkmaster-k]

10 hours ago, QED said:

I got the top score on the MAA exam in my city's high school district which bought me an automatic A in calculus.  So I cut school 43/44 days in my final high-school quarter/semester(?) to go fishing.  I lived next to the SJ County delta system so it was a 15 minute drive to good fishing.  One day, I brought my fishing rig and tackle box on the school bus(!) to my morning computer science class and missed my afternoon calculus class. Good times. Tom Sawyer stuff for sure.  Rebels without a clue!!!

You must have had a pretty cool bus driver. 

[MassYak85]

A few times in college it worked out where I only had one or two classes on a Friday. No quiz that day? Weather looking tempting? Yea I was gone.

[Fishlegs]

From the time I found this forum I believed that there were a lot of great people on here, but a group of fisherman saying they didn't skip school to go fishing?!?

 

 

I'm past the statute of limitations on my school years so I'll go ahead and admit that I did it...but only once. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ??

[Bluegillslayer]

Skipped a whole week for fishing in Alaska. Beat that!

[TnRiver46]

37 minutes ago, Fishlegs said:

From the time I found this forum I believed that there were a lot of great people on here, but a group of fisherman saying they didn't skip school to go fishing?!?

 

 

I'm past the statute of limitations on my school years so I'll go ahead and admit that I did it...but only once. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ??

If you count college, we skipped a whole bunch to go fishing. It’s a lot easier when your mom doesn’t work at the school

[MN Fisher]

33 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

If you count college, we skipped a whole bunch to go fishing. It’s a lot easier when your mom doesn’t work at the school

I didn't skip much in college either - not through a sense of responsibility, but because the classes that I'd consider skipping (English Comp, Interpersonal Communication, etc) were usually flanked by classes I didn't want to skip cause they were teaching me things about lakes/rivers/streams/ponds.

 

Classes like Limnology, Freshwater Invertebrates, Aquatic Plants, etc - Aquatic Biology major.

[river-rat]

I never cut classes in high school but when I was attending college at LSU I would schedule my classes so I could go fishing in the mornings or afternoons.

 

If the fishing was really good I would not hesitate to skip class.