Why dont women fish?

Hi, i was reading different fishing adventures you guys have, and they all sound like fun! So why dont women go fishing more often? My husbund is always going fishing and leaving me at home saying its a guy thing! I think I would luv fishing!!

Honey if you need to fish then make the hubby take you and if he don't then get rid of him, move to Montana where women fish with men on an equal basis or at least as close to it as you can get.

Probably because the first time you reach into a package of 4" pink worms you'll say, "Honey, Guess what! We got a bonus pack of worms. They made a mistake and put in a bunch of 12" worms in the 4" package!"

I'll explain it if you need me to, but I'm just guessing.

i tried to get my woman to go fishing with me for a long time yet she still refused(real high maintenance get your nails-hair-etc done all the time). one fine sunny afternoon last summer she agreed to come along to be "fisherman's helper" to hand me a beer when i needed one and wouldn't you know it, went to set a hook bill dance style and WHAM!! nailed her right in the forehead with my rod tip. needless to say that was probably the last time she'll ever go fishing(at least from the bank, she still enjoys riding in the boat, sunbathing of course)

does the question really need asking??? i thought it was an unwritten rule??

The better half can and does go anytime she wants!The last few times she has honestly out fished me! :p

You just go GIRL! And better yet,
have him take you to Alaska. Bob can set you up just fine. Find a neat cabin in the woods...
Bob has his "best" along side often....ain't that right Corey! Or better yet, Corey takes him
fishing...

......if my hubby goes to Alaska with the guys,
then he has to go again with me. :p :p

I'll probably be single for a loooong time. I know too many people that have gotten divorced over fishing or the woman won't let the husband go fishing, etc. I tell people I'll only get married if I meet the woman while she's fishing.

:p :p If the female doesn't like fishing, camping, etc., before getting married,,,
she is not going to like it after getting married.
Another question is....if they don't like the fishing....what do they like outdoors? You got to be an outdoor person.

It's the extra chromasome, I think.

Either that or social conditioning. Probably the same reason why when I mentioned that Joann's fabric store carried colored glue sticks that there were a large number of guys who wondered if they could trust their wives to pick up the right colors.

It's how it is. Doesn't mean that it's right.

LOL.
Ah yes, the classic tale of women and fishing.

If you would like to know the answer as to why women do not like fishing, you need not look further than their upbringing, mainly.

The most advantageous time to turn a person on to fishing is 'anytime', but I think you can have the most impact with the person if you start them out at a young age..........patiently supervising them!

Most likely these women's fathers, uncles, grandfathers, etc. never took them fishing, or they have some 'bad' experience from fishing at a young age that burned them out on the sport.

I think women and children have about the same attention span while fishing. :p That's why it is completely respectful to bait a child's hook or a woman's hook, until their confidence level has built up enough to do it on their own.

And for God's sake, fishing is supposed to be FUN !!! Start them out at places where you know fish in numbers will be nothing hard to come by, like shad fishing, smelt dipping, trout fishing, etc.

Remember, it has to be easy and fun. As they get more turned on to the sport, they will really gain a respect for the fishermen who target the harder species to catch and bigger fish, and thus, start pursuing the chrome as well.

Take your wives out fishing. Take your daughters. Take your nieces, granddaughters, etc. Take your girlfriends out fishing. Take your girlfriend's hot, best friend out fishing. Also, if the female is really attractive that you are trying to turn onto fishing, the best times are those really warm days where she sees catching fish as the bonus, and catching rays in her bikini while fishing her true goal (unless of course you are fishing with your daughter, then you call me instead so you can go fish with the boys and I will ummm...supervise her techniques).

A girl split up with me after 2 years for fishing to much, said I was lieing about what I was doing and fishing all the time. dont know nuthin about that. Ben

Now my wife is a fisherwomen. She doesn't like being called that. She says Dollys my name & fishings my game.
That is what an older man got when he asked a young girl where she got that fish. She said; out there. Only women I know that Plunked the Green, in its hayday, & lived, even after falling in. Still hung on to the pole & got the fish in. Then finished the day.

The question isn't would I like, because my father use to take me fishing when I was a child and I love the outdoors,camping (not at parks either.) My husbund just says there is hardly any women out there . Its a "GUY THING"

The first date me and my bride to be was silver fishing. She loves to fish and doesn't mind that I'm fishing all the time. It was fun to teach her how to cast and bait up. Sometimes she helps me tie hooks and make rags. She's a keeper!

Pink,

This year I've seen more women salmon and steelhead fishing than I ever have in the past. Fishing is the main thing that my wife and I do together. We have this great setup. Our neighbors like to go out gambling Fri. nights so we watch their daughter. We go fishing on Sun. they watch our daughter. If I were you, I would take the advice of AuntyM. If your hubby won't take you, then find someone else who will. I'm sure he'll come around!!

Well,maybeeee I'm lucky but my wife has been fishing for around 35 years like myself and we are both 40.She is more addicted than I am and we fish year-round in any weather.I can say that friend of mine whose wifes don't fish might if they were asked :p

You ever fish up here and the Vedder in Canada and you'll see alot of women here. Alot of guys up here know Lori, She'll put the wop on alot of guys on the rivers, she's very good. She has many 20+ fish on her list. She even went to Mexico for Vac to Bill fish! I took her to the Vedder for Steelhead her 1st time while Joe stayed home and watched the kids. God help the fish when she gets her own boat! Search "Women+fishing" enjoy. Alot of sites just for you! Ever up this way you can jump in my sled and bring home Hubby alot of pictures of "Guy Thing" fish!

PinkwormLover

One reason why women don't fish as much as men do is because, we men, are pretty dam crude sometimes! Example; men don't usually watch other men when they have to relieve themselves (RT you say out of this!) It's a simple biological function (RT, leave it alone!) But if a women is in the field, we usually watch them very, very, closely (well, let just say RT doesn't miss too much) (jk). It's our rotten male nature as males to see everything!.

Women have been raised different then men in this matter, and that's probably good. When I was guiding, it was always very important to have an area where women would go to do their biological functions, in private. Many men do not understand that most women need to be private in this function. Other then that, most women can, and are great fishermen. If we, as males can understand there inborn needs for some simple privacy, we can enjoy them as great fishing partners (RT, you be good now). So when we see the ladies head into the woods, let's let them have a few minutes of privacy. It will be well worth it. Fishing really isn't just a "guy's thing" It's a thing that we all can enjoy, if we just use common sense and give the ladies a little bit more room when they need it!

Cowlitzfisherman

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????

My wife and I had our first date canoeing on the black river, and we had many dates in the out-of doors. She even went fishing with me a number of times. Now she just chooses to stay home while I take the boys out. It isn't for lack of trying, I ask her all the time.

aahhh...better just delete this response if I know whats good for me....

Mrs. Hoochie and I had our first date at Bouy 10 many years ago and I've been fishing and sleeping with mt best friend ever since. Doesn' get any better than that!

Aunty M is right-- if he won't take you, find someone who will.

THEN, find out if it really IS a guy thing he's doing.

"Honey, you need to get a little bit further out in the river to get the good fish. Good thing ya got a flat chest so your waders go up higher, huh?

"Whoa, careful there! Ya accidentally got that net caught over my head. Hang on while I take it..."*splash* *blub blub blub*

I've been taking my 14 year old Grandaughter this year for the first time on rivers to get her into that first steelhead, she hasn't hit one yet but we'll keep trying until she does.

Have taught her about spinners, casting , reading water and where fish hold, just started her with float and jigs on our last trip.

I think the one big draw back, for gals, is the call of nature out in the woods, she always "holds it" no-matter how long we are out there.

You should hear her friends asking about the trips we take, what a crack-up! "you actually get into the water?" "You wear those ugly waders?" "Isn't it way too cold?" stuff like that. She always says " I love going with my Papa, the sights, sounds and smells of the river, makes me forget all the crap I have to deal with everyday" Yep! she's going to be a real steelheader for sure! I can't wait for her to get that first "fish on!" She's already caught a few salmon and loved every bit of it. Not to long ago she asked me if I would take her deer hunting! you can bet I will!

Hey Cowfish, I've taken a lot of ladies fishing. Especially the years I guided full time. Never once did I get out the binos and glass them to watch 'em pee. It was always several times - never just once. ... jk. I don't get off watching women pee in the woods. Now those voyeur cams are pretty cool though. ... Not!

In general it goes back to the cave days and the natural instincts. Men were food gatherer and women were nurturer.

I'll have to agree w/hey yall on this one. My girlfriend likes to fish, She doesn't love to fish, nor does she have the desire to go by herself. But we have fun fishing. She is pretty good at it.

I started her out on little hatchery trout. She caught fish an had fun. She grew up in a house where nobody fished, so she had never been exposed to it. One thing I did was make sure she always had better gear than I did. It's funny, she notices things on the river that I'd never relize, It gives me a little differnet perspective. I really enjoy our experiances outdoors.

Now, three years later, she's catching steelhead, killing elk, and got her first turkey. I wouldn't trade any of those experiances for the world. I think too many women have been forced outdoors, that's why they don't go. Just let them make up there own minds.

Aaron

My wife loves to fish. The bigger the fish, the better. Prior to last year, we primarily just fished trout on the Deschutes or at some of the lakes. My wife is disabled and has a difficult time finding a area where she can fish from the bank. She MADE me buy a 19' North River and take her out at least 4 or more trips a month. Her first year of salmon/steelhead fishing, she filled her tag between August and the end of the year. We won't talk about how many I caught. Let's just say, I had a few spots left. This year is starting out the same way. She has ten winter steelhead to my one. I guess some of us were put on this earth to drive the boat, net fish, and clean fish. I can live with this. I don't have to try to figure out a way to go fishing. She always asks "Were are we fishing this weekend?"
Besides, how many of you get to sleep with your fishing partner?

brshooter

Way to go!!!

May you both live long and prosper!! Take the lady when ever you can, It doesn't get much better then what you guys have.

Cowlitzfisherman

It the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook, in this case, you bet it is!

You put Mrs. Tilla in a boat with a romance novel and a bag of Cheetos, watch out. What's really scary is that everyone in the boat will watch her rod and not their own 'cause that is where all the actions at! She just sits there readin' that darn book and ends up spankin' us every trip She holds most the fishing records too. Oh, and don't touch her bait, she has her "special way". But one thing is pretty cool. She cures the eggs at our house. It falls under kitchen type responsibilities, the eggs work and I don't question her about her secrets.

Well I like to fish too. Took me several months to convince my best friend that I was serious and tough enough to go out with him. Now, I go whenever I can get the chance with or without him. I always begged my dad and my brother to take me with them and they never would.. (okay once my dad took me on a float in the canoe on the Skookumchuck and we only made it to the second bridge from the dam and didn't catch a darn thing), now both my dad and brother are jealous because I go more than they do and to better places. Just got my first steelhead on Christmas and my buddy was there with me. He was almost more excited than I was. He's been teaching me for two years now. A lot of times he ditches me to go with his guy friends but I don't get uptight about it, I know he'll take me the next time, and almost always to a good spot! ;-)

Why don't more women fish? I always enjoy catching a glimps a nicely filled set of neoprenes however the sight is far to uncommon!

FJ...out.

I am blessed with a household of women, well, a wife and daughter anyway. Wife's first love is horses, but she fishes with me - we took the boat on our honeymoon as we couldn't take horses into Canada without quarantining them first. I guess what happened is I made the mistake of taking the wife, and then the daughter, fishing when it was good, and they got used to it being that way - and I mean like any more that 5 minutes between bites and let's go home. Neither can understand why I bother fishing all day when I'm not catching much. So yes, they fish with me when it's good, and don't when it's not (or when it's nasty weather or rough water, etc.). This works fine - they both badly outfish me anyway and when the fishing is good then our combined take home pay is enourmous. And I do all the gear, all the bait, process all the fish, and take care of the boat. They, however, cook, feed me, and clean up afterwards. Works for me, like I said, I'm blessed!

I threw a temper tantrum at age 4 when grandpa was going to take my 6 year old brother down to the creek to teach him to trout fish. Grandpa was showing him how to read water, ie behind rocks, in seams....I just went downstream and cast under the overhanging ledge under the bridge. "Fish on!". That was 39 years ago.
I got my drivers license and used to head up the Mowich Lake road and fish the little creeks there alone.
And then I got a job and bought a driftboat at 21 years old....


You're either born with it, or you're taught it.
My suggestions - go by yourself. Fishing is not neccesarily a team sport. Aaaannnndddd....you'll meet a whole bunch of men who would just looooove to take you fishing in the future. That fact alone should change the mind of any man that is leaving you at home. He'll soon realize that if he wants to keep you around, he'll have to 'keep you around'.


For those of you that are trying to convince a female to fish with you....number one issue - get her into good clothing that looks decent and will keep her warm. That might mean some big bucks for mountaineering clothing, Helly Hanson, microfleece and Goretex, but I guarentee that chances increase tenfold that she'll go again if she knows she'll be warm and dry.


And spring for a guide trip. She'll get into fish, stay warm and dry and you can pour on the charm uninterrupted by reading water and rigging up. Treat her like you're THRILLED that she's there, not like she's a boat anchor. And big deal if she cracks one off. Stop for a burger on the way home....she didn't want to cook fish anyway!

I have no suggestions on the bathroom thing. I feel that if some guy gets his giggles by watching a middle-aged woman pee in the woods, he's got issues that preclude him from being my buddy anyway. Bring a bottle of wine for your woman....maybe she'll just quit caring about it.

Just my $2

diana

see post on deer fishing.no further comments.

Ya know Diana, those are some darn good ideas. Think I'll try a few. Thanks.

Before I do my spil, I will add this. First off, because a person/woman likes to fish, camp, and othermisc. ouudoor stuff before you get maried, doesn'tmean they tTRULY like it. I know. My exwife (my I state again EX) "loved" to fishh and go hiking/camping. She went on a few fishing trips, a couuple caamping trips, and no hiking trtips. She'd always saay "'let me knnow whe you're goin". But it would always end up that she had plans with "'family". But she seemed to have fun when she wennt. SEEMED was the thing. Soon as I put th douuble band oon th haand she hated steelhead/salmon fishing. Too boring and wasn't like trout fishing for stocked trout. Hhated going camping, hated peeeing outside and waking up iin tents. So on and so on. Worse 7 years of my llife. I had to sneak in trip after trip. Then I'd go on my yearly week long fishingtrip wit my Dad and wuold pay for it for amonth aafterwards. Mind you, I always encouraged her to go, bought heer DAMNED nice gear, and even bought her nicer gear then me. No luck. Hell, even installed a heater system in my old DB I used to have and shestil wouldn't go.

Lukily now, I have a girlfriend who loves to fish. I get the evil eye if I plan a trip and donn't invite hher (trust mme, I don't plan one without heer or ask first if it's ok to do aboys only trip). Especiialy some rivers, if i was o float the Hoh without her, sh'd shoot my butt. She has good equiptment (alot nicer gear then I had at hhe age) and I taught her how to do her own rigs, tie he own fliis/jigs, and such.

Hhey Ppink, make you a deal. Next time I go on a trip with my girlfriend, you're more then welcome to come along....WITHOUT your hubby. Make him stay home . I have a boatt that will fish 4, so I have the room. Just an offer.