okay uh
what kind of fishing is there up in Utah
well there's quite a quite a bit of different kinds lot of people go uh stream fishing
and we have a a few lakes uh right now they're uh doing a little bit of ice fishing on some of the lakes i personally don't fish a lot fish a great deal uh
got kind of a young family it's
you know it's not something that we're really into there's couple of good trout farms that are close by that we go fish at just with the kids for fun
yeah
yeah
how about yourself what do you enjoy
well i was i was raised on Alabama coast and i like salt water fishing
oh
and Dallas is there's quite a few lakes around here i've
done some fishing from the shore i don't have a boat which you really need to get out into the lakes uh you know really do any good
uh-huh
i've
i've caught a few striped bass from the shore some of the small ones
yeah
and then catfish and stuff i haven't done a lot since i moved to Dallas
how long you been there
oh
off and on for ten years we were here
six years and my wife got homesick we moved backed to Alabama Mobile spent about eight months and moved back to Dallas because the
uh-huh
yeah
wages and all were better up here
oh i have a the only reason i'm in the program is i've got a brother and a well a sister that lives in Plano and so they uh they uh get involved in this we went out to a lake one time when i was visiting them i can't even remember what it was called it was a pretty good sized one
seem like there were a few guys fishing there from the shore is all
yeah
uh
i never caught anything or never been uh salt salt water fishing that sounds like you know kind of be a lot of fun i've seen these guys that
well you go on a vacation and they go out in the big boat and
right
go deep sea fishing you ever done that
yeah i did that a couple of times the company i had worked for in Mobile they had a
couple of bunch of us guys got together and we and chartered a boat and
uh-huh
went out caught red snapper and one guy caught a ling
oh
and i caught a few what they call trigger fish
uh-huh
but the it wasn't
some of the snappers that much not that much fun they don't really i mean uh yeah they they don't fight at all it's just pulling dead weight you know
they don't fight
is that right
yeah and we'd constantly getting our lines tangled up with people people fishing on both sides of the boat so
oh
it was one uh fish were good but it was kind of a hassle
i got a brother-in-law just got back from a trip to Alaska
um
and uh he said that was quite a bit of fun uh i guess the salmon are pretty good fighters and uh they went uh out in the you know more of the deep sea fishing as well caught a fair amount of halibut
yeah
and they say the halibut are are a pretty good fighter too
um
they're an odd fish i don't know if you ever seen i guess they lie on the flat on the bottom of the ocean and they only have one eye or or just a small eye on the other side
okay well we we catch flounder on the coast which is about the same thing
as halibut
yeah
yeah
do they put up a fight or not
uh well they hug the bottom they
they don't run that much but they they
somehow they hug the bottom and it's kind of you find it's a pretty good struggle to put them in you know pull them in once they get
once you get them over to over to the side of the boat because they're they're pretty pretty weighty fish are they yeah do you net those or i guess you have to huh
yeah
yeah
uh
i've caught i've caught one on a hook with live shrimp i've
caught several of them in cast nets
uh-huh
yeah about yeah you would have to net them to get them in the boat because they really have a small mouth and all
yeah
but i've i've fished mostly you know
when i was on the coast in the in the bays and stuff in a little you know plywood skiff
yeah
and
well the water's kind of brackish so i
i catch a mixture of salt water and fresh water fish right with
right on the coast you know i catch
catfish in the bayou and go
uh-huh
a half a mile and catch a you know salt water fish
you know i've never eaten catfish are they good eating
yeah they they real good they
uh-huh
and so that i guess
you know people on the coast and all consider them that's the best around
is that right
yeah
kind of an ugly looking fish are they great big whiskers on them
yeah they they
yeah they are and they're bottom feeders if you
uh-huh
if you get them out of real muddy water then they got a muddy taste to them but if you
oh yeah
you know catch them out of clear running water they they're pretty good
taste a little better yeah well these trout that we catch are real good i i quite enjoy those uh they this place where we go with uh with my six year old they uh filet them for you right there for only like ten cents a fish i mean it's well worth it
yeah
yeah
so you just fry them up right
