Lessons from growing up

When I was in high school I still remember fishing with a friend of mine. There was a big dead fish floating in the lake, we drove up next to it for a closer look and I actually put it in the net. It smelled so bad! I learned that day not to net dead fish because you don’t know how long they’ve been dead.

It’s been a long time since then, but that’s a lesson that will stick with me for a long time.

I cant tell if dutch boy is getting mocked here or if you got a itch to tell a fairytale. Must be my patriotism to the united states making me insane

philtickelson wrote:

When I was in high school I still remember fishing with a friend of mine. There was a big dead fish floating in the lake, we drove up next to it for a closer look and I actually put it in the net. It smelled so bad! I learned that day not to net dead fish because you don’t know how long they’ve been dead.

It’s been a long time since then, but that’s a lesson that will stick with me for a long time.

And the first thing that came to mind was this guy on deadliest catch lol

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lol.

In case you were wondering it was a 25# class carp, which was dead for quite some time. Parts of the fish like disintegrated as we netted it and got stuck on the netting and wouldn’t come off. It was gross.

Is ido adding a deep thoughts section?

Doubt it, I haven’t seen any posts with deep thoughts.

targaman

What’s the importance of this lesson? Don’t mess around with dead carcasses, carrion, rotting flesh? Ah…more memorable lessons of far more impact on getting through life’s surprises than exploring animal cadavers.
Deep thoughts?

Sometimes you just don’t know, until you find out.

Don’t open the night crawler box if it’s been sitting in the hot garage for over a week

I would also like to add that you should check all parts of the livewell when you come in from fishing for the day. Happened to me recently we were on a fishing trip and came in from from fishing. Thought I had counted 4 fish in the well. Get in and only find 3 fish. Oh well must have miscounted. Get home from the trip and did not clean out the boat until a few days later to find the missing fish had been thrown in on the bait bucket side. PHEW what a smell!!