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View Poll Results: Do you think fishing is a sport?
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11-09-2011, 09:47 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 232
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Sport or No Sport
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11-10-2011, 05:51 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Perdue SK
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If fishing is a sport, I am an athlete. Lots of fun until somebody loses a walleye!
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11-10-2011, 06:25 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 7,268
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to me sports = competition between people. tournament fishers may call it a sport, but im not a tourny fisher. I do it simply for my own enjoyment. I dont consider my fishing competitive, therefore i dont consider it a sport.
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11-10-2011, 06:37 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Calgary, AB
Posts: 1,248
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I do not consider fishing a sport, nor do I go fishing to catch fish. I go fishing for many reasons- being outdoors, spending time with family and friends, enjoying the scenery etc. Catching fish is a bonus.
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11-10-2011, 07:00 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 8,144
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I find it to be more of a hobby than a sport.
If I got into serious tourney fishing then I may consider it a sport, but I think for myself, that the competition would take a lot of the fun out of it for me.
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11-10-2011, 07:22 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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..yup just like Bowling, cept more fun.
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11-10-2011, 07:37 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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more like an addiction for me  Hi my name is Wayne, and Im a fisherman.
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11-10-2011, 07:40 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Look behind you :)
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If I was good at it one day then its a sport.....if I didn't have a good day its a hobby 
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11-10-2011, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: High River
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I'd have to say hobby/obsession, only because I can't in anyway think of myself as an athlete. LOL. Rick.
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11-10-2011, 08:38 AM
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Gone Fishing
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,802
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Its a sport....and if any of you tell my wife otherwise you will be hearing from my lawyer.....he is with the law firm of Dewey, Skrewem and Howe
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11-10-2011, 09:11 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Uh, guess? :)
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Fishing CAN be a sport if done competitively. Personally I detest that, but it is what it is.
I would not say that competitive fishermen are athletes however. That's not derogatory or an insult. I just mean success is not primarily based on elite, highly trained physicality. It's based primarily on knowledge, strategy, etc.
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11-10-2011, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: High River
Posts: 441
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Okotokian
Fishing CAN be a sport if done competitively. Personally I detest that, but it is what it is.
I would not say that competitive fishermen are athletes however. That's not derogatory or an insult. I just mean success is not primarily based on elite, highly trained physicality. It's based primarily on knowledge, strategy, etc.
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Hmmm. Perhaps it is a profession? That means I'll have to start charging my grandkids! LOL. Rick.
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11-10-2011, 09:40 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Almaty
Posts: 2,032
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It's a form of a spiritual practice. Irrational as any of them (it's easier to buy a fish)
"Sport fishing" is one of the last ways to get sinchronized with nature and one's basic istincts.
Some approach it as a sport and probably catch more, but most of them just don't get it I think.
And some don't get a rush when they get the first bite at all - those are hopeless as a bench version of a hunting dog, instincts are broken and their minds confused.
Last edited by ak-71; 11-10-2011 at 09:51 AM.
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11-10-2011, 12:34 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 12,078
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There is Sportfishing and there is Commercial fishing.
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11-10-2011, 12:37 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 3,772
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It is all fun and games until someona can lose a (wall)eye.... then it is a sport!...
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11-10-2011, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Almaty
Posts: 2,032
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greylynx
There is Sportfishing and there is Commercial fishing.
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Oops, sorry, I missed the space - English is my second language
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