[speaker001:] why don't you go ahead with the fishing part
[speaker002:] well uh I mostly do I fish for uh bass
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] down here and uh I don't get to do as much as I'd like to but uh I I really enjoy I don't like fishing on big lakes but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum sure
[speaker002:] on the small ponds where you can pretty much cover the whole pond in an afternoon or something
[speaker001:] sure for the different areas yeah
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] yeah and basically big lake small lake it doesn't matter to me um preference wise to fish for the best if you're going to eat what you are going to catch is pan fish um I've caught you know are northern and and pipes and uh northern pipes and other walleyes and things like that and preferably to me the meat isn't that great I'd rather have the blue gills the sunnies the crappies the perch um to me they're better tasting so I always seem to go fishing for the smaller um smaller fish versus the big fish but um when I was growing up my father kind of introduced me to fly fishing and that was kind of a very interesting uh experience that I had and I'm sure that part of me would like to go back and do that it's kind of like for trout fishing
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I'm sure someday I'll probably get back but uh at the current time the most if I go fishing it's basically with the worm at the end of the hook and I you know try to catch the small fish it's it's not for the big try to try to get the biggie so
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I use a fly quite a bit uh when I go bass fishing
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] when they're hitting on the top of the water I I really like enjoy I I've never
[speaker001:] sure it's kind of fun I I mean it's a continual movement and versus uh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] uh when you put that uh worm at the end of the hook you sit there and you wait and you wait and then you may move it a little bit just to say that hey you know there's something there but uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh with fly fishing you're constantly uh moving that uh you know your line and you're continually keeping it up and keeping it back down so
[speaker002:] yeah and there's a skill in getting it to right where you want it
[speaker001:] exactly exactly
[speaker002:] so I really enjoy that
[speaker001:] it takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to learn how to do it so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um but uh with my family uh when we do got fishing uh my my daughter's real small and she has not experienced fishing yet so I'd rather
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know get her into fishing with the worm at the end of the hook and hopefully catch some uh fish so
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah I had a chance to go to uh Alaska for six weeks last summer and did some salmon fishing up there and that was really uh
[speaker001:] oh gosh yeah oh what an experience huh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that was and and it was
[speaker001:] now that I wouldn't probably I I'm sure that they probably were very delicious tasty
[speaker002:] oh yes um we we uh I think the best way I had it prepared was smoked
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh it was really good really good
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but they have
[speaker001:] and it seems like
[speaker002:] quite a few different varieties and uh um some are some are better than others
[speaker001:] sure in the in the salmon
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well I've also noticed I don't know the best time of the year for fishing uh in this area is right after the winter and the ice is been on and it's real cold water
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but it seems like if you go fishing like in the middle of the summer when it's hot and humid uh the fish tastes tastes fishy versus um when the water it's just opened up from the ice and the water temperature is extremely cold
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's almost the better tasting fish are either ice fishing uh when you go ice fishing or when uh you know you go right towards the early spring part uh before summer hits because after summer whether the ponds here aren't that deep or the water just changes and it gets busier and more people are out on the lakes and less maybe water like in the spring we have lots of rain coming in um there's a big difference in you know fishing too
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] which brings up another point point too as far as ice fishing that's uh way up here in the north here
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] that's uh that's a big thing too and I haven't done that in a long time but that's enjoyable if you have the right setting and you have a little house to sit in there and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] a little heater then it's then it's it's good but uh if you have to sit out there in the blowing winds it's not so great on a lake
[speaker002:] yeah I bet
[speaker001:] but anyway it was really good talking to you and uh have fun fishing
[speaker002:] yeah I I didn't know uh I didn't know I thought they were only recording male voices they must have changed that
[speaker001:] you know this is kind of funny um I've had nothing but male callers
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um every time that I've placed a call it's been with a male and I'm not quite sure if they're taking uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I think what they're trying to do is get a lot of men and some women together I was chosen the first time I went through in
[speaker002:] um-hum hum