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Fuck is Up With Competitive Fishing? (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 months ago by GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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So, I've decided to not look into this at all, but my understanding is that you're scored by like, size and weight of the best fish or added up fish total by the end of some fishing time limit. So like...isn't this mostly up to the fish? This meta feels VERY rng driven and hardly suitable to competitive play. im-vegan , but it came to kind and I'm curious how the fuck anyone gets credit here. If anything it should be whoever can catch any fish first.

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

one thing that really fucks me up about fishing today is that fish were much larger (and older) back in the day. even shellfish were big as fuck; oysters were the size of steaks. and these days the fish are so much smaller, even the Tuna. it takes a long long time to grow a 1400lb Tuna...

cw: seafood for links in this post

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This was because they actually had a chance to grow. There wasn't much demand for oysters before we had the technology to can them or ship them by train.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

100% it's the same shit with forests you gotta give things fucking time to grow

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They had Krakens and Leviathans and Cthulhus way back. Fisherman were zany. Imagine reeling in Poseidon.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

"oh hey Poseidon, sorry about that. Actually before I catch and release ya, a little birdie told me Laomedon wasn't planning on skipping out on your fee for that little construction job you did.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, that's what Cracked.com looks like now? It looks like any generic buzzfeed ripoff with 0 soul or personality. I'm surprised it's still around.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

more surprising that they're putting out articles in 2024

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

Different size fish hang out in somewhat different parts of the lake, and eat different things. You can use a physically larger lure to prevent yourself from catching small fish (but might catch nothing). Knowing what fish are biting when and where for the given time of year and day and weather is a skill.

But honestly I think it's mostly cheating.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don’t know but they had the most unhinged cheating scandal in competitive sports ever. The top fisher was found to be cheating by putting lead weights into his catches.

The video of when they were caught is extremely worth watching (CW: dead fish)

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

as soon as I saw "competitive fishing" in the title, I thought of this video and hoped someone would post it

Iirc, that dude had been on a winning streak, which is why this was a Big Fucking Deal to all the onlookers in the video.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

damn cheating CHinese, wait

[–] Fundle@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't these guys get a jail sentence for cheating at a fishing game?

[–] niph@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Did they?? I had stopped following. But iirc they basically defrauded the competitions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of prizes

[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

idk its fun lemme just like throw a hook in the water and go eepy in my girlchair

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Poker has quite a bit of random chance in it too and it's also very successful for competitions

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Poker isn't entirely chance and there's calculated risk. Not guessing what's under the water you're casting at is alive and big but also hungry

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and there's different lures and baits and fishing tactics too

Not trying to defend the integrity of a sport centered around harming and terrifying animals for fun, just saying there are factors the fisherman can affect

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure but poker pits the players against each other, not animals just doing their thing. Though in both cases the fish are gonna get their shit rocked

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fish plays worst hand of poker ever, asked to leave lake/casino

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

"GG lads, I win this round"

plays hand consisting exclusively of the two of clubs

"Please leave"

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

I have a modest proposal for this issue: People​ ​who harm animals as a hobby can please gargle my nuts.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

It's on the level of golfing as a bourgeois "sport" imo

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

i don't fish and couldn't imagine being invested in it as a competition, but i think the notion is that bigger fish are older and have more guile from being longer lived.

personally, i don't need an excuse or an invitation to sit on the side of a waterbody and zone out.