[speaker001:] so you like to fish huh
[speaker002:] yeah I like to um I don't have a boat but I like to fish and there's a lot of lakes around here um are there many lakes up there
[speaker001:] yeah actually there are quite a bit of lakes around me we actually uh we have the those little the the the Great Lakes you know Great uh Lake Ontario is right near here
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] plus we're in what's called the Finger Lake Region of New York where there're lots of small lakes everywhere and these are uh real good um for like you know bass fishing and so forth
[speaker002:] they have mostly small mouth in them or
[speaker001:] no we have a quite actually quite a lot of variety here's uh there's we have large mouth small mouth um sort of musky pike stuff like that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know all sorts of fun stuff like that um we have a pretty large bass masters tournament actually takes place right on Lake Ontario every year
[speaker002:] oh yeah that's right uh-huh
[speaker001:] so it's it's that's a lot of fun
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] how about you do you like what what do you like to go for
[speaker002:] oh it's it's uh I fish for bass but I hardly ever catch one but um um they have a tail race over in Lake Lavon and uh you know they wash when they open up the dam and let out water they wash down the fish and uh you catch that white bass and crappie out of there
[speaker001:] yeah um
[speaker002:] every once in a while there'll be striped bass
[speaker001:] we have uh some friends who live on a lake and it the lake it just seems is is completely filled with bass to the point where you know normally you go you you go fishing for bass you get a lot of sunfish or
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] or cat or whatever and some other strange stuff but in this particular lake we went out with some friends once and we just every time you tossed the line in you pull up a five six seven inch minimum bass and usually you pull up you know thirteen to fourteen inch bass
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] yeah it's a real it's a real enjoyable experience to go fishing there because we just we pull up you know bass after bass and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] during perch season as well you pull up a lot of uh probably during during perch season the perch will run in very large schools so what they'll do is just you'll you'll be sort of boating around these people own a little row boat and they'll be boating around and they'll hit a they'll hit a school of perches in the middle
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and when they do you can just drop the lines in and just pull them in one at they they just drop it in they they can't pull it in fast enough
[speaker002:] what do you what do you catch perch on
[speaker001:] um I they actually they according to them you can catch when the perch are running you can catch them on just about anything
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] they tend to use I guess worms or some kind of lures sometimes but you know I've she told me that they will sometimes use corn or anything you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they'll corn or salami or bread or anything they'll they'll they'll hit because they're just sort of surrounded these large schools
[speaker002:] yeah it's sometimes I use corn but uh uh some fish steal it off the hook sometimes
[speaker001:] yeah it's a big problem
[speaker002:] yeah um the other day I was fishing with bread uh there's a college across the street and they it's it's full of carp
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh I caught a carp on a about what size is that uh I think it was a number two treble hook and it's huge its its mouth was just full of hooks
[speaker001:] um wow
[speaker002:] so he was in a bad way but uh it's he was fast
[speaker001:] a big one
[speaker002:] he's uh yeah well it's uh it was sixteen inches long
[speaker001:] wow that's that's that's a nice size carp
[speaker002:] yeah I think it was about a pound and a half you know but all they're good for is the fight boy they don't they really don't want to come out of the water they they zip through the water you know you're how your line goes you know
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I thought you know that uh I wasn't going to be able to get it in because uh the one I hooked just about ten minutes before when when I tried to raise it out of the water it fell off so it wasn't hooked very well but you know I got it that far I figured that uh
[speaker001:] that that that counts
[speaker002:] yeah that's what I said that's what I told the guy the guy was standing there and he laughed when it fell off and I said that's a quick release right there
[speaker001:] do you do you do you actually like the taste of fish do you like eat the fish that you catch or are you more of a sport fisherman
[speaker002:] um catfish yeah but uh I haven't eaten anything else you know
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] um there's some uh my dad has a farm and there's he has two ponds up there and my uncle has a a pond upstream and there's a lot of crappie in there now but uh I think he's the only one that's that's caught enough crappie or a big enough crappie to eat but the catfish there's you know there's hundreds of them from like two to six pounds and
[speaker001:] right so you can just
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] oh because I don't actually like fish it's sort of so when I fish it's more for sport than anything else
[speaker002:] yeah and if you know when you when you have to look in their eyes and you know hit them in the head or whatever that's what you do with a catfish you know because you have to sever their spinal cord
[speaker001:] right and and and and and be careful you don't get stung
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I know it have you ever tried uh deep sea fishing
[speaker002:] uh not yet my brother went off the coast of Maine uh when the I don't know what they Mackerel that school out there it's he he said that it was just like that they were throwing like uh uh hell benders or uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh some other kind of treble hook lure and and uh each time they bring them in they'd have at least one sometimes they've had two on you know one on every hook
[speaker001:] yeah we I was out in Florida with a friend a while ago and we would go and just uh drop two you know a a two or three rig two or three hooked rig as well down off a boat we just dropped it down there and the captain had you know some kind of sonar in the boat so he'd maneuver us in into a school of fish and you just drop it in and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and it just you you get one or two at a shot you know and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it's a good deal too it was it was a like twenty dollars for six hours of fishing on some big charter boat
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] you know and and and they'll clean your fish on a tip basis for you if you want
[speaker002:] yeah down here it's like two hundred dollars a day
[speaker001:] well this is yeah this this this was for a you know large there were
[speaker002:] a group party
[speaker001:] maybe thirty of us on the boat we we weren't all related just you know thirty people off the shop in the boat there if you want to go on a boat alone it's like two hundred dollars a day
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but this is great because it was I think it was nineteen dollars for five hours and twenty dollars for six hours or something
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know so you'd get to go out there for five for for six hours and get a nice suntan and bring along some lunch and and fish all day it's really nice it's real enjoyable
[speaker002:] yeah well I I don't know if it's been five minutes yet or not
[speaker001:] I think we're probably close though
[speaker002:] yeah it's nice talking to you
[speaker001:] nice talking to you too good luck with fishing this season
[speaker002:] good luck bye-bye
[speaker001:] bye-bye