re: Do you hunt and/or fish?

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Fishing, yes. Excellent pastime

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Yes without a doubt. I'm on my boat just to fish (not frick off) 150 plus days a year. My wife and I are taking the boat out tomorrow to throw sassy shad swimbaits at striped bass.

Given the dearth of your hunting and fishing experience, have you ever had the proclivity to steal and deal?

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Kids who hunt and fish don’t steal and deal

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You're right. Some of them ride around around at night drinking beer, spotlighting, and shooting deer from across the hood of the pickup truck.

Used to but duck hunting sucks now and I can’t justify the cost of a deer lease or a boat. I miss it though.

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My favorite thing to do is go frigging and crabbing.

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Yeah buddy! Frigging can lead to crabbing.

I don't hunt much anymore but I'm still fishing as much as I ever did. I absolutely LOVED my years as a student at LSU with all the fishing available everywhere you turned. Many a weekend was spent driving down to Ponchatoula and fishing from the edge of the road in Bayou Manchac, or borrowing my uncle's boat and heading down to Bayou Sorrel, Catfish Bayou, or up to Old River or False River. Hell, a couple buddies and I would even sit on the tailgate of my truck and tightline for catfish in the lakes at LSU. (The 80s were an awesome time to be a student.)

Here, north of Atlanta these days, I've found myself on the Chattahoochee nearly every weekend fly fishing for trout.

Brother, if you're living in Louisiana, make the most of it. There are few places on earth where you can enjoy fishing (and catching) within a five minute drive from just about anywhere! You're smack in the middle of a fisherman's paradise! It'll give you an excuse to buy a boat too. Doesn't have to be fancy. Even a johnboat with a 10HP motor will serve the purpose.

I do but harder since we no longer live in the south and have access to family land. Plenty of places to fish. My middle daughter grew up hunting with me (actually killed the biggest deer between the two of us) but she is married and has a baby now and no longer does. It’s not too late to learn.

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Do you hunt and/or fish?

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I have fished a time or two.

There are more people in this state like you than not. I did both when I was younger and got out of it but my oldest son pulled me back in. I took all the kids fishing pretty young but he loves both and even bought a lifetime combo license with his own money at 12.