We have a park across the street from me and on part of it there is a big ditch, well usually it is dry but when it rains or snows it fills up with water but cant be more than 3 ft deep, well last summer, I saw a older man out there on a canoe with his fishing pole trying to catch some fish, all I could do is laugh. There is no fish in there and even funnier it was dry again 3 days later, I was thinking about telling him there is no fish in there but I didn't.
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[black][size 3]With a little more age on your bones, Grasshopper, you will know what we OLDER MEN have learned.[/size][/black]
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[size 3]"There is more to fishing than catching"[/size]
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LOL, well, there is more to it I guess. but I still wouldn't fish in a ditch. [
] If I had a canoe, i'd be in a lake somewhere were I know i'd catch some fish. [
] True it's not all about catching fish, but if you had a choice, wouldn't you choose to catch a few? [cool]
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The old man knows something you havent found out yet...
thre are days "cirtain days of the year when you will find a fish where you never expected to find one."
twenty years ago I saw the same thing. a guy and his wife walking up a ditch that normaly 90% of the year is dry. yet when he came out two hours later, he had fish in his creel...[crazy]
knowing the time of year and conditions that bring those fish in to that area is a trick accomplised by old timers that continue to astound...
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It would be wise to soak a line in there a few times before ruling out the lack of fish.
On the other hand, dry line can go bad on you. It is better to keep it wet.[cool]
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He must have seen something you have not seen. I used to work at a steel mill and there was drainage lines (pipes) all over the plant, on some of those man holes you could see fish, may have been lake trout or some kind of trout. The place was right at the edge of lake Michigan and the fish will swim right in to the pipes, I often tought about bringing a fishing pole. Someone looking at me probably would think I was crazy.
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We have a similar thing go on by the old farm. All year the ditches are dried up, or have little mud pools. But when the spring rains come, they fill up. I've caught pike, white bass, channel cats, carp, pearch, suckers and other sorts of fish that swim miles from the creeks and swampland into these newly flooded drainages. I've also been told by passing drivers on the dirt roads that I was crazy, and there's no fish in these ditch. Immagine thier supprise when I hold up a 7-8lbs pike and say "Oh realy?"
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Back when I lived in Idaho, I could catch nice Whitefish in the irrigation ditches as well as nice Cutthroat Trout in the Canals. An occasional Brown would also be a delight.[cool]
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I go fishing in bishop cali and the best fishing is found in these channels because no one thinks theres fish there and have caught a variety o fish from 5lb large mouth and a 7 pound brown trout
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Those canals that are on the East side of Bishop hold lots of good browns. I love fishing them every time I go up there.
I also enjoy fishing the Ponds out there. You know which ones.[cool]
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