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Fuck is Up With Competitive Fishing?

So, I've decided to not look into this at all, but my understanding is that you're scored by like, size and weight of the best fish or added up fish total by the end of some fishing time limit. So like...isn't this mostly up to the fish? This meta feels VERY rng driven and hardly suitable to competitive play.

, but it came to kind and I'm curious how the fuck anyone gets credit here. If anything it should be whoever can catch any fish first.

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  • Different size fish hang out in somewhat different parts of the lake, and eat different things. You can use a physically larger lure to prevent yourself from catching small fish (but might catch nothing). Knowing what fish are biting when and where for the given time of year and day and weather is a skill.

    But honestly I think it's mostly cheating.

  • Poker has quite a bit of random chance in it too and it's also very successful for competitions

    • Poker isn't entirely chance and there's calculated risk. Not guessing what's under the water you're casting at is alive and big but also hungry

      • Yeah and there's different lures and baits and fishing tactics too

        Not trying to defend the integrity of a sport centered around harming and terrifying animals for fun, just saying there are factors the fisherman can affect

  • i don't fish and couldn't imagine being invested in it as a competition, but i think the notion is that bigger fish are older and have more guile from being longer lived.

    personally, i don't need an excuse or an invitation to sit on the side of a waterbody and zone out.

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