Did that big fish you caught taste good?
As far as fishing goes, I never fish for fish that can eat me or fish or swim in areas where fish or reptiles want to taste humans. I hate swimming in swimming pools, but would swim in them any day rather than in a lake with fish that like to eat or bite us.
I have hooked some fish in Lake superior and in the portage lake that I could not turn so they were huge, I used twenty five pound test, off the Houghton breakwaters one time and hooked something huge. it took out all my line, and at the end, my pole snapped and then it finally broke the line at where the pole broke.. I used to buy the real good fishing line so it would not break or cut easily. I do not know what kind of fish that was, probably a sturgeon or something.
Another time I was fishing on a boat with my uncles in an entry between a lake and portage lake and I thought I had a snag...but snags do not pull the boat backwards against the current and turn the boat around without reeling the line in when the boat is anchored. My uncles thought I was snagged too, until I told them about how the boat was being pulled against the current. Probably a sturgeon that time too, and logs do not float against the current either. They were laughing at first, but when they saw what I was saying, they said we have to get that fish...but it was impossible, the line was all out, and I could feel the fish swimming like it was not even straining.
There is some really strange fish living in that canal according to divers I know, they are huge and sort of prehistoric looking but not sturgeon...but are curious and just come to check out the divers by the bridge without actually bothering them. So they don't like to eat people, safe place to swim yet in my mind, the seaweed is more dangerous if you get caught in it when diving...I know two people that died diving off a boat from seaweed, the girl went in, and didn't come up, and her boyfriend dove in to save her and got tangled in it and also drowned. Divers untangled them when they went in to search for their bodies I heard, I had just left from that area about an hour before they died. We also get undertow currents here when swimming, it felt like someone or something grabbed my feet and pulled me out a hundred feet when I was standing in water just above my waste, I did manage to get loose and go to the top and swim to shore...never swam there again, and never will. I avoid any area with rip tides to this day, there have been more of those happening over the last ten years that have pulled people out than there were in the years before for some reason I guess, they used to be more rare to have that happen.
I did go swim in the ocean one time in Florida, then the wife and I went down to an area with docks and I asked how the fishing was, the guy said it was a great day to fish for sharks, he showed me the ones he had caught...I asked them if they bite when you swim, and he said there is a a warning about it for swimmers, no wonder nobody was at the beach swimming where the wife and I were swimming. I guess there were signs posted. Those sharks were small, maybe about two feet long that he caught, but he said when there are lots of them and they are hungry they nip at people swimming. He laughed at me when I told him I was just swimming a quarter mile down the shore.....He said something about the lack of people swimming being a sign. And here I thought it was nice to have a whole beach to ourselves....I suppose the people at the restaurant where we were eating were watching to see if we got bit out the windows facing the lake.
The only sturgeon I have caught were about eight inches long...one day in the sturgeon river in chassell around the time they had hatched. I think I caught three or four of them, kind of weird looking little fish, almost prehistoric looking. I knew they had to be tossed back because they were pretty rare and not legal, and I made sure to take the hook out gently and left when that was the only thing biting. I didn't want to kill any, sometimes fish die when they swallow the hook so I felt it was too risky to keep fishing when that is all that seemed to be biting that day.
I don't usually fish in areas where real big fish are, I'll stick to fishing for fish under twenty five pounds or less.
As far as fishing goes, I never fish for fish that can eat me or fish or swim in areas where fish or reptiles want to taste humans. I hate swimming in swimming pools, but would swim in them any day rather than in a lake with fish that like to eat or bite us.
I have hooked some fish in Lake superior and in the portage lake that I could not turn so they were huge, I used twenty five pound test, off the Houghton breakwaters one time and hooked something huge. it took out all my line, and at the end, my pole snapped and then it finally broke the line at where the pole broke.. I used to buy the real good fishing line so it would not break or cut easily. I do not know what kind of fish that was, probably a sturgeon or something.
Another time I was fishing on a boat with my uncles in an entry between a lake and portage lake and I thought I had a snag...but snags do not pull the boat backwards against the current and turn the boat around without reeling the line in when the boat is anchored. My uncles thought I was snagged too, until I told them about how the boat was being pulled against the current. Probably a sturgeon that time too, and logs do not float against the current either. They were laughing at first, but when they saw what I was saying, they said we have to get that fish...but it was impossible, the line was all out, and I could feel the fish swimming like it was not even straining.
There is some really strange fish living in that canal according to divers I know, they are huge and sort of prehistoric looking but not sturgeon...but are curious and just come to check out the divers by the bridge without actually bothering them. So they don't like to eat people, safe place to swim yet in my mind, the seaweed is more dangerous if you get caught in it when diving...I know two people that died diving off a boat from seaweed, the girl went in, and didn't come up, and her boyfriend dove in to save her and got tangled in it and also drowned. Divers untangled them when they went in to search for their bodies I heard, I had just left from that area about an hour before they died. We also get undertow currents here when swimming, it felt like someone or something grabbed my feet and pulled me out a hundred feet when I was standing in water just above my waste, I did manage to get loose and go to the top and swim to shore...never swam there again, and never will. I avoid any area with rip tides to this day, there have been more of those happening over the last ten years that have pulled people out than there were in the years before for some reason I guess, they used to be more rare to have that happen.
I did go swim in the ocean one time in Florida, then the wife and I went down to an area with docks and I asked how the fishing was, the guy said it was a great day to fish for sharks, he showed me the ones he had caught...I asked them if they bite when you swim, and he said there is a a warning about it for swimmers, no wonder nobody was at the beach swimming where the wife and I were swimming. I guess there were signs posted. Those sharks were small, maybe about two feet long that he caught, but he said when there are lots of them and they are hungry they nip at people swimming. He laughed at me when I told him I was just swimming a quarter mile down the shore.....He said something about the lack of people swimming being a sign. And here I thought it was nice to have a whole beach to ourselves....I suppose the people at the restaurant where we were eating were watching to see if we got bit out the windows facing the lake.
The only sturgeon I have caught were about eight inches long...one day in the sturgeon river in chassell around the time they had hatched. I think I caught three or four of them, kind of weird looking little fish, almost prehistoric looking. I knew they had to be tossed back because they were pretty rare and not legal, and I made sure to take the hook out gently and left when that was the only thing biting. I didn't want to kill any, sometimes fish die when they swallow the hook so I felt it was too risky to keep fishing when that is all that seemed to be biting that day.
I don't usually fish in areas where real big fish are, I'll stick to fishing for fish under twenty five pounds or less.