11-01-2003, 02:19 PM
[cool]Hey, TubeKid, congrats on the new position. Let me reply to the question.
I dearly love all kinds of fishing. It would be hard to isolate one particular kind I like over another. In fact, it is sometimes difficult to know how to set up my gear and load my vehicle until it is time to leave. I have even had times when I have left home and then turned around and gone back to "retool" for some other kind of fishing at a different destination. Don't know whather that is old age or indecision. Do I have difficulty making decisions? Well, yes and no.
If pinned down on the subject, I would have to say my favorite fishing is float tubing along the remote beaches of the Sea Of Cortez. I can use light to medium freshwater tackle to catch hundreds of fish in a day...and can count more than twenty species in the mix on a typical trip. The average fish is about one to two pounds, but will outfight the average freshwater fish of the same size by at least two to one.
Since I can't make a trip to the salt every time I would like, I usually settle for fishing warmwater lakes...in pursuit of bass, crappies, yellow bass, sunfish and catfish. I use both baitcasting and spinning, but prefer to fish the lightest tackle I can get away with. I fish everything from topwater to deep spooning and jigging. Also been known to wave a "fairy wand" and fling some feathers.
I was born in Idaho and grew up fishing for trout in small streams. That type of fishing will always be in my blood, and I can still recapture my lost youth by walking a "trickle crick"...dropping a worm or salmon egg into the little pockets and extracting brightly colored wild trout that seldom reach 12 inches in their restrictive habitat.
Of course, I don't mind fishing larger creeks and rivers for big old wily browns either. And, I have spent many glorious days freezing in the winter rivers of the Pacific northwest for salmon and steelhead. A leaping steelie can thaw you out in a hurry.
In short, I love all kinds of fishing. My favorite is whatever offers the best shot at some action...whenever I can get away.
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I dearly love all kinds of fishing. It would be hard to isolate one particular kind I like over another. In fact, it is sometimes difficult to know how to set up my gear and load my vehicle until it is time to leave. I have even had times when I have left home and then turned around and gone back to "retool" for some other kind of fishing at a different destination. Don't know whather that is old age or indecision. Do I have difficulty making decisions? Well, yes and no.
If pinned down on the subject, I would have to say my favorite fishing is float tubing along the remote beaches of the Sea Of Cortez. I can use light to medium freshwater tackle to catch hundreds of fish in a day...and can count more than twenty species in the mix on a typical trip. The average fish is about one to two pounds, but will outfight the average freshwater fish of the same size by at least two to one.
Since I can't make a trip to the salt every time I would like, I usually settle for fishing warmwater lakes...in pursuit of bass, crappies, yellow bass, sunfish and catfish. I use both baitcasting and spinning, but prefer to fish the lightest tackle I can get away with. I fish everything from topwater to deep spooning and jigging. Also been known to wave a "fairy wand" and fling some feathers.
I was born in Idaho and grew up fishing for trout in small streams. That type of fishing will always be in my blood, and I can still recapture my lost youth by walking a "trickle crick"...dropping a worm or salmon egg into the little pockets and extracting brightly colored wild trout that seldom reach 12 inches in their restrictive habitat.
Of course, I don't mind fishing larger creeks and rivers for big old wily browns either. And, I have spent many glorious days freezing in the winter rivers of the Pacific northwest for salmon and steelhead. A leaping steelie can thaw you out in a hurry.
In short, I love all kinds of fishing. My favorite is whatever offers the best shot at some action...whenever I can get away.
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