Stick, String, Hook, Worm
Mar. 23rd, 2011 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76I have this vague feeling that I'd like to learn how to fish again. I haven't done so since houseboating with my parents as an early teenager. But when I poke around on the internet, I find the official government sites--you need this license, and that license, and oh this one too for $ALotOfMoney--and varying sites about fishing locations which rhapsodize about what the government stocks when and where and you have to use this specific type of bait that I've never heard of, etc, but not really anything directed toward the beginner.
Stuff like: I know I need a pole with a line, and some type of hooky thing on the end. Is there a general ratio of length of pole to length of me, and is just pulling the older rods down out of my parents' rafters okay? What do these different weights and such mean? Bait is something to put on the hooky bit; do I really need something more than worms? For that matter, how do I tie the hook on? What is a bobber, and how do I fasten it on? Which licenses do I really need, and I know there must be limits on how many of what type people can catch in a day, so what are they? For that matter, what kind of fish am I allowed to catch versus having to toss back, how big do they have to be, in what months, and is there a basic visual guide to what they look like? Could I fish in random streams or only lakes? (The ocean is, for the moment, beyond the scope I'd want to explore.) I assume I'd need a cooler and ice to put the caught fish in; should I gut them as soon as I catch them, or wait until I get them home? And is there a fast, humane way of killing them once caught, or...?
Minecraft makes it all look so easy. RL less so.
Stuff like: I know I need a pole with a line, and some type of hooky thing on the end. Is there a general ratio of length of pole to length of me, and is just pulling the older rods down out of my parents' rafters okay? What do these different weights and such mean? Bait is something to put on the hooky bit; do I really need something more than worms? For that matter, how do I tie the hook on? What is a bobber, and how do I fasten it on? Which licenses do I really need, and I know there must be limits on how many of what type people can catch in a day, so what are they? For that matter, what kind of fish am I allowed to catch versus having to toss back, how big do they have to be, in what months, and is there a basic visual guide to what they look like? Could I fish in random streams or only lakes? (The ocean is, for the moment, beyond the scope I'd want to explore.) I assume I'd need a cooler and ice to put the caught fish in; should I gut them as soon as I catch them, or wait until I get them home? And is there a fast, humane way of killing them once caught, or...?
Minecraft makes it all look so easy. RL less so.
