Stupid Fishermen
Stupid week continues here on YouTube Digger, where you can feel a little better about yourself because you are not one of the people featured in these clips. No matter how screwed up of a day you are having, at least you’ve never been impaled by a Marlin. Hell, I once got framed for assault and had to spend a night in jail before charges were dropped — but at least I’ve never been impaled by a Marlin. (Not yet, anyway. Just my luck, Marlins will rain out of the sky over Philadelphia. And I don’t mean a sports team, either.)
Okay, enough with the intro and let’s make with the clips, already, Rena. Since we talked about Marlins impaling people, let’s show a clip, which is a recreation from The Learning Channel. Now, the Blue Marlin is fighting for it’s life, here, which is why it’s 450 pound body is flinging about. So, naturally, you want that big ass fish to come as close you as possible so you can have an excuse to get drunk. I don’t understand the attraction — I guess fishing rare big fish makes you feel better about your shortcomings in life.
The next clip is from “argamer” and is about the perils of ice fishing:
Now that you’ve recovered your breath (and changed your underwear), here’s the (silent) epic struggle of the old man and the sea, put up by “Slawterhd”:
It seems so silly to go messing with all of that bait and hooks and nets and things for a rare or endangered species (like most fish nowadays). Anyone who has watched Sesame Street learned all they needed to learn about fishing from Bert and Ernie. Thanks to “qbeam” for today’s lesson in how to catch a fish:
April 4th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
[...] was not a fisherman content to just sit in a boat and hold a pole in one hand and a beer in the other. Oh, no. He [...]