[speaker001:] not be a very good conversationalist on fishing I don't do a lot of it
[speaker002:] well I do love to fish
[speaker001:] well good maybe I can learn something
[speaker002:] well I don't know how much you can learn I'm not so sure I'm good at it but I do enjoy doing it yeah
[speaker001:] do you well it is fun what little I do of course I don't you know I think when they refer to different kinds of fishing I told my husband last night when I called and they had told me that this was a topic I said well I can tell them how to fish with a minnow or how to fish with a worm he said I don't think that's the different kinds of fishing they're talking about
[speaker002:] well I hope it is there's not a whole lot of different kinds
[speaker001:] that's about the only kind I know how to do
[speaker002:] I don't do a lot of deep sea fishing I because I get seasick but we have a lot of lakes here in this area
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I do a lot of fishing for um bass we have a lot of uh uh couple of lakes in our area that are filled just filled with good sized bass
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and then when I get tired of them outwitting me I fish for catfish
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and we use worms worms and shiners which is pretty much like minnows a little bit bigger than minnows and then I also use spinner baits and plastic worms
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] it all depends on what I'm fishing for and the time of day
[speaker001:] well it sounds like you do quite a bit of it
[speaker002:] I do uh there's a lake like maybe two or three miles from here and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's very convenient on afternoons when I wanna just get away and sit and think fishing's a good way to do that and I have a lot of friends who like to go fishing
[speaker001:] um do you have a boat
[speaker002:] no I don't I have a friend who has a little inflatable inflatable raft and we use that sometimes
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] I wish I had a boat but I don't
[speaker001:] I think the lakes are probably different in Michigan than they are in Texas the ones around here are so big that you can fish off the dock
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but unless you have a boat you can't really get into the where they call the good fishing holes you know
[speaker002:] right that's the same way here isn't it you have to get back in the sticks in the
[speaker001:] is it uh-huh my in-laws live on a lake uh a little bit east of Dallas kind of in the Piney Woods and the lake is beautiful and I like to go out and stand at the end of the dock and fish but actually catching fish to eat per se you don't really do much of that right there I catch a lot of little old uh I think they call them perch
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and then the the uh turtles try to eat up all my bait so it's it's so close to the dock that I think all I do is feed them a little bit but it's kind of fun
[speaker002:] oh we we don't have we don't have a big problem with turtles but we do have a lot awful lot of snakes in our lakes
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] and I
[speaker001:] I would be afraid of that
[speaker002:] well I can't think of a time that I've been fishing that I haven't run into one or two of them
[speaker001:] do they ever get on your hook
[speaker002:] no we uh occasionally I'll catch an eel on an on a hook but
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] never the snakes they just kind of
[speaker001:] are they poisonous snakes
[speaker002:] uh we have a lot of cottonmouth and so yes they are definitely
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and they live in the shallow little coves that I like to fish in so I see them swimming by every once in a while
[speaker001:] um yeah I think I'd be a little bit afraid of those
[speaker002:] yeah they can they're they're certainly ugly
[speaker001:] um-hum we uh saw a large snake right off the dock there at my in-laws place last year it was probably four inches in diameter or something something like that you know great big snake and it course it scared the women to death you know but the men come out and said oh well that's only a a king snake it won't really hurt you you know but it looked so bad and it was so big that it it might not would have hurt us but we sure felt like it was hurting us just being there you know but they're scary looking
[speaker002:] yeah definitely do you have bass
[speaker001:] yes uh I think that uh probably around here people fish for bass and crappie and catfish more than anything else
[speaker002:] right well that's pretty much the same way here I
[speaker001:] um-hum now they have a lot of bass tournaments
[speaker002:] well we have those I don't do I inevitably if I enter one of those I never catch a thing I just go out there and sit and watch other people do it
[speaker001:] um-hum oh no um-hum well that's kind of we've never entered a tournament or anything we're not that big into fishing but I see a lot of people you know early in the morning there'll be all the boats going out and they'll say well there's a big bass tournament this weekend and all those people are here for the tournament you know
[speaker002:] and oh yes
[speaker001:] so I think there's a lot of people that have you know really I guess that you'd call it really sport fishing they're really into it to try to win
[speaker002:] yeah oh definitely
[speaker001:] my
[speaker002:] certainly here they are
[speaker001:] but it is it's very a very relaxing sport to be able to just be out in on the water and looking around the peace and calmness is really relaxing
[speaker002:] yeah it's a good thing to take a nice book and sit back and read and to fish
[speaker001:] um-hum now I've never tried taking a book with me I'll have to try that one of these days
[speaker002:] that's what I do a lot yeah