Originally Posted By: Salmonella


Try to tell people how exhausting a full day of salmon/ steelhead fishing is.
All day, sun up to sundown, bucking fast water, cast after cast after cast.
Cramping up on the long drive home.
I've hit my bed in total exhaustion many times after one of those days but if you tried to tell an outsider, well, they'd laugh you out of the joint.


So can we say we are sport fishing "Athletes". If someone asked me if I participated in any sports I could be like "Yeah, I fish. I trolled from sun up to, to sun down the other day. On the way home I got a cramp in my index finger from scratching my butt for 14 straight hours. . . "
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