Fishing
The Fraser River is known for the fishing of white sturgeon. A typical white sturgeon catch averages between 30 to 100 pounds. A huge white sturgeon weighing an estimated 1,100 pounds and measuring 12 feet, 4 inches was caught and released on the Fraser River in July of 2012. It is believed to be the biggest freshwater fish ever caught on rod and reel in North America and possibly the oldest.
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Famous quotes containing the word fishing:
“Once fishing was a rabbits foot
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“From time immemorial the men of the town have been famous seamen, and have divided their energies between fishing and hating the English.”
—Willa Cather (18761947)
“I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)