# Explain to me the lure of water

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-the-lure-of-water/523473>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 3, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-the-lure-of-water/523473 "2010-01-03T03:16:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-the-lure-of-water/523473/41 "2010-02-17T15:47:11Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Lots of people like to fish. They LOVE to fish. They love to catch fish and eat fish and talk about fishing and fish in different lakes and buy fishing gear.
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> You can very well fish on a pier or a cliff, but everyone I know who owns a boat is an avid fisherman.
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> The one guy I knew who had a boat and was NOT an avid fisherman ended up getting rid of the boat after he realized the costs outweighed the enjoyment.
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> Ok, I take that back I know one other guy who is not an avid fisherman and owns a boat. His WIFE is an avid fisherman (she fishes from a pier), and he’s a mechanic who loves driving fast. A rusty old boat was a perfect buy for them.

My father’s father was a commercial fisherman (except during Prohibition, when he was a bootlegger), and my father went on trips to help Grandpa when he wasn’t in school. Hey, he was free labor. At any rate, my dad has loved boating all his life, and he’s owned boats all his adult life, but he hates fishing. And he doesn’t care for seafood, unless it’s EXTREMELY fresh. He particularly doesn’t like butterfish. Grandpa Bodoni loved butterfish, and if there was any butterfish in his catch, then that’s what he brought home for the family to eat.

Personally, I hate boating, but that’s probably because I get motion sick, so I associate boating with feeling like I’m gonna puke at any second. I do enjoy going out to a lake or ocean and looking at the water and associated scenery. When I was a kid and teen, we’d go out to the lake and I’d get a kick out of feeding bread to the fish, unless the geese spotted us with bread in our hands. Geese can range from very aggressive to downright mean and scary when they see food that they want.

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**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-the-lure-of-water/523473/42 "2010-02-17T22:22:48Z")

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I want to try living on a boat one day. Boats are awesome but the maintenance sucks.

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