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my dad's brothers have a hunting cabin in northern michigan and that's some of the sweetest fishing i've ever done, drop a line, catch a fish.

i used to go every summer and just some of the tastiest fried fish ever.

i'm no good at bow hunting but i enjoy that too.

unfortunately all the neighbors are literally either kkk or michigan militia. other than that, love it up there.
 
used to pull up "Spot" when we went fishing around Morehead and Wilmington

miss living in the OBX
 
my favorite eating fish growing up was fried mullet. but you have to catch them with a cast net instead of a rod. growing up I knew of the fish well before I had heard of the haircut.
 
trout are the best freshwater fish to eat

tuna are the best saltwater fish to eat
 
this is prime TWDeac convo rn, he spent like 3/4 of my bachelor party (lake house in poconos) fishing
 
my wife's now former boss is engaged to the owner of Sunburst Trout Farms. so we've gotten lots of trout over the years, but I think that's gonna end esp since they're hurting bad due to a severe drop in restaurant sales. that's some good eating though.
 
wfudkn said:
I've only been fishing a handful of times in my life; maybe 5 times but definitely less than 10. And I don't think I've been fishing since I was in middle school. But it seems kind of weird to me since it seems like something I would enjoy.
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Yeah I wish I had the chill to get into fishing, but I just don't get it. Would much rather just focus on drinking while on the boat.
 
If there is trout on the menu at a restaurant (especially a nice restaurant) it's a virtual certainty that I'll order it. So good.
 
TownieDeac said:
have also always said croppie

we stayed at a cabin in NW NC when we were kids and caught a whole bucket of the ugliest fish we'd ever seen, but my dad couldn't identify them, and we were bringing them home to clean and walked past a local and asked him if he knew what they were and in the deepest drawl i've ever heard to this day he said "y'all ain't from around here are ya? them's hornyheads."

i think about it every time i fish
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Yep those are native fish in the NC Mountains. We call them hornyhead chubs. Catch the hell outta of them when fishing for trout on our property. They're annoying as hell and will bite the tiniest bit of work.

Before I knew anything about them I cleaned and grilled like 8 of them... Needless to say I never did that again.
 
my dad and his brother go on a 14 day fishing trip with the same group of outfitters in alaska every year, they've gone to six or seven different places now on expeditions

they always return with 75-80 pounds of fish each

this is the first year it's been canceled

i will go one year, their pics are beautiful, and they party real hard on the trips
 
I guess its the #hobbies talk that triggered this thought, but the other day I realized that my favorite "things I do for fun" involve being in fairly tight crowds and that may never be the same and it really bummed me out. Concerts, sporting events, street festivals, etc.

I really wish I had a Walden soul, but I don't. Being alone with nature does nothing for me.
 
I'm planning on taking the kids fishing after work this afternoon; lord willing we'll put some trout in the net.
 
wfudkn said:
If there is trout on the menu at a restaurant (especially a nice restaurant) it's a virtual certainty that I'll order it. So good.
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When I traveled to Argentina in February, we did a cooking class at the vineyard we stayed at and we cooked trout on the plancha over open fire. Hands down the best trout I've ever had.
 
I will never, ever understand people who wholesale don't like seafood. not counting vegetarians, vegans. but people who eat meat but won't eat any seafood. it's so varied! shrimp, oysters, tuna, trout, salmon, octopus -- all so different.
 
BarcaDeac said:
my favorite eating fish growing up was fried mullet. but you have to catch them with a cast net instead of a rod. growing up I knew of the fish well before I had heard of the haircut.
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Or a gill net (gillnet). We used to catch mullet with one of these set in the Newport river. Mullet has a relatively strong flavor--I'd agree that frying is a good way to enjoy them!
 
my wife thought for her whole life that she didn't like shrimp and recently tried it again and now orders it all the time

i may be overcompensating now and cook it like twice a week
 
TownieDeac said:
this is prime TWDeac convo rn, he spent like 3/4 of my bachelor party (lake house in poconos) fishing
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i went camping with him and cookout last year and he seemed v bummed that we were just doing car camping (more that he didn't have a real use for some of the legit actual camping gear he brought lol)

though it like DOWNPOURED that weekend and he got to show off some v cool macguyver skills
 
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