does a fish story need to be truthful ?

does one need a witness or a photo and or some other form of proof ?
i think the best of fish stories are the ones that might be truthful .
case in point >>>>
i almost got pulled out of the boat the other day by a HUGE crappie !
i have a witness to it though ,so does it make it a good story ?
then it got away on the surface much to my dismay ...
does that qualify it as an even better version on said story ?
or how about i was using a medium heavy rod and it about broke it ?
and if the lews reel was screaming drag it most certainly gets a bit less than believable right ?
i often wonder if a fish story is only a good fish story if you have zero evidence it ever took place....what say yawl ....?

depends on who is doing the telling. We know who tells us what happened whether a witness or not whether it was truthful or not. lot of my fishing is by my lonesome but usually do have pics to show what was up. but then there are those hookups which are epic but don't getrdone and they get off is still a worthy tale and we all have had them.

guy like the outlaw who does getrdone and has pics most of the time in telling us a story is believed fo sho.

In the high 90% of the time, I'll be telling you the truth. But every once in a while I like to get in that gray area. Ride right out to the edge of that probably didn't happen; but it could have. Leave them wondering. I have an evil twin. His name is Skippy.
He makes me say stuff like that every so often.

Mike

sometimes i imagine what a video some of my fish stories would make .
not that i have enough time to do much video stuff ,but to be sure i bet some of them would be worthy of a big grin .
the staged stuff i see that is funny to some folks in videos i have seen, don't get it done for me .
reality is way more funny than pretend antics and staged bloopers .:highfive

K- I find correlation between your title vs. the last 4 years = Certain people CARE vs. careLESS :twocents USA FLAG :confused::pray

u2s:fish

K- Ego plays a big role = Success in life brings confidence(no need to BS), failures in life(fishing etc.) bring on exaggeration(BS) and deceit! Sooner or later we all clue in to information's source.:twocents
u2s

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

i often wonder if a fish story is only a good fish story if you have zero evidence it ever took place....what say yawl ....?

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Ya mean like this here 100% true story?

I was out fishin last Thursday with my recently deceased Great Grand Uncle Knutzwerth an waz ketchn a fair amount of 10-14 inch crappies. All da sudden my medium heavy rod more than doubled over and I could hear it creakin like it was gunna snap. My Lews reel was smokin whilst the drag was screammin an I wasa yellin for my Great Grand Uncle Knutzwerth to hit da record button but he waz frozen stiff in awe watchin the scene unfold!
I waz on my own at that point and had to waste sum my cold beverages to cool down the reel and finally get this HUGGGGEEEE crappie to the surface. Great Grand Uncle Knutzwerth agreed it had to be over 30"!
I get this beast boatside with the net at my ready and as I dip the net in the water Great Grand Uncle Knutzwerth sneezes and spooks the monster and it jumped five feet high in the air ifn it went an inch. What a site to behold as it shook its head n threw the hook right into Great Grand Uncle Knutzwerth's left eye.
Knutzwerth would back my story but he aint talkin ta me ever since. I think he's just jealous.

To be honest, I have never made up a 100% true fishin story of my own.

"So there I was, I'd finally hooked up that old grand daddy cat fish of local lore. The fight had been on for a good ten minutes, just as I got him to shore a big foot walked up, slapped his face in the water and took that old catfish for himself (he can keep my rod)."

So OK, that story was believable right to the point where big foot got envolved.
Personally stories around the campfire are light years more entertaining than a video. True or not, it won't matter as long as you make it entertaining and convincing.

I don't care if my grandfather loaded both barrels with bull feathers or half full of fluff. The riveting way he told his stories had me filled with awe and inspired my love for the sport so I can make my own stories (be they true or not).

True fish stories.......The mother of oxymorons :Rofl

This was posted the other day on one of the crappie Facebook groups I follow:

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It seemed appropriate to this thread. If you are going to exaggerate the size of the fish, maybe don’t do it by over 100% and provide photographic evidence that you are completely full of it.

In this case, stating his very nice 3 lb fish was bigger than the world record would have been more believable without a picture.

Beautiful!

You mean some of them are 100% truthful??

A true fishing story ranks up there with bigfoot sightings and UFOs...some people believes they exists :biggrin

Ketchn posted this thread from Texas. Being a sixth-generation Texan myself, I am reminded of an old Texas saying I was taught as a lad, "Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story."

David

I took a picture of a crappie I caught...it was so big the photo weighted 5lbs...no seriously...what are you looking at me like that for? :fish

That reminds me of the white bass I caught a few years ago. As we looked at my buddy said it was the biggest one-eyed white bass he had ever seen. Then when we walked around to the other side we realized it actually had both eyes.



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I would post pic's, but most of my catch's are to large for camera lens.

Since most of us seem to fish alone, it is rather hard to have a whiteness or a picture unless you got a go pro.

Here is one of my evidenceless stories because no one was with me :)

My wife and I travel to Lake Lure in October to enjoy the leaves and the fishing. We rent the same cabin year after year that sits beside the Broad River (that is actually an oxymoron because the Broad River is about 20 feet wide for the most part). At the river frontage there are visible bass in small schools. Each year I take my gear and try and try and try to no avail, but never able to hook up with one.

A couple of years ago My Dad, Mother, and two nieces joined us at the cabin for the week. My dad and I fished everyday, didn't catch anything but kept right on fishing just the same. One late afternoon my dad went up to the cabin and left me by my lonesome. You got it, I finally hooked one of the bass and it was a nice one at about 16" ! Reeled it in, got the stringer setup and the darn fish slipped out of my hands, into the water, stringer and all. Out of a reaction I dove into the ice cold water only to have some gravel in my hands and completely soaked and freezing.

I walked up to the cabin, cold, wet, and frustrated. But that wasn't the hard part, no one believed me that I caught a fish!

If they all had to be truthful, we wouldn't hear near as many.

Only a story told as true should be so. A yarn spun in jest or entertainment well certain freedoms should be taken to ensure a good story too tell:biggrin

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

does one need a witness or a photo and or some other form of proof ?
i think the best of fish stories are the ones that might be truthful .
case in point >>>>
i almost got pulled out of the boat the other day by a HUGE crappie !
i have a witness to it though ,so does it make it a good story ?
then it got away on the surface much to my dismay ...
does that qualify it as an even better version on said story ?
or how about i was using a medium heavy rod and it about broke it ?
and if the lews reel was screaming drag it most certainly gets a bit less than believable right ?
i often wonder if a fish story is only a good fish story if you have zero evidence it ever took place....what say yawl ....?

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I don't see any problem. I believe you.

The folks that ketch with me , know many of what folks think are really tall tales actually happened as stated .
More then one person over the years that has got to go ketch with me ,said the best part of reading my stories is that most of what I say in them ,actually happens as told .:Rofl
Of course there are times it gets exaggerated, but most of the time I try to keep it kinda real .:cheers2

Sometimes a little spicy is needed to make the story flow better

My Dad used to tell about a place He fished years ago where there was a sunken car on the bottom of the river. One of Dad's friends fished around it several times, but never caught any fish anywhere near it, and was quite puzzled by it. Dad told Him "I gave up on that place years ago, it was just a waste of time. Best I can tell is that when the fish in that area see the first hook dropped toward 'em, they all get in the car and roll the windows up until you leave".

Now that's funny

got told a fishing/snake story the other day , thought man this is for sure bs , then he showed me the images of the result , still not totally sure it happened as told , but the images matched his story pretty darn well. :Rofl

A picture is worth a 1000 words

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

does one need a witness or a photo and or some other form of proof ?
i think the best of fish stories are the ones that might be truthful .
case in point >>>>
i almost got pulled out of the boat the other day by a HUGE crappie !
i have a witness to it though ,so does it make it a good story ?
then it got away on the surface much to my dismay ...
does that qualify it as an even better version on said story ?
or how about i was using a medium heavy rod and it about broke it ?
and if the lews reel was screaming drag it most certainly gets a bit less than believable right ?
i often wonder if a fish story is only a good fish story if you have zero evidence it ever took place....what say yawl ....?

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I think the more unbelieveable the story the better!

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Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah

My Dad used to tell about a place He fished years ago where there was a sunken car on the bottom of the river. One of Dad's friends fished around it several times, but never caught any fish anywhere near it, and was quite puzzled by it. Dad told Him "I gave up on that place years ago, it was just a waste of time. Best I can tell is that when the fish in that area see the first hook dropped toward 'em, they all get in the car and roll the windows up until you leave".

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Now that is great!

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this .....:Rofl

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Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah

My Dad used to tell about a place He fished years ago where there was a sunken car on the bottom of the river. One of Dad's friends fished around it several times, but never caught any fish anywhere near it, and was quite puzzled by it. Dad told Him "I gave up on that place years ago, it was just a waste of time. Best I can tell is that when the fish in that area see the first hook dropped toward 'em, they all get in the car and roll the windows up until you leave".

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Does sound a little fishy.

Funny stuff