history: I enjoy fishing, but I catch things like old boots, turtles, and even caught a snake once.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong!
knowledge: Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing, is fishing for pleasure or competition.
response: Haha.  Are you fishing for pleasure or for competition?
history: I enjoy fishing, but I catch things like old boots, turtles, and even caught a snake once.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong!
Haha.  Are you fishing for pleasure or for competition?
Just for pleasure.  I am trying to teach my son, but I'm afraid the only thing he has learned from me is that it's a myth that there are fish in the lake!
knowledge: It can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is fishing for profit, or subsistence fishing, which is fishing for survival.
response: Hah!   The contrast is subsistence fishing, for survival, or commercial fishing, for profit.
history: I enjoy fishing, but I catch things like old boots, turtles, and even caught a snake once.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong!
Haha.  Are you fishing for pleasure or for competition?
Just for pleasure.  I am trying to teach my son, but I'm afraid the only thing he has learned from me is that it's a myth that there are fish in the lake!
Hah!   The contrast is subsistence fishing, for survival, or commercial fishing, for profit.
Oh I see, well can you tell me anything interesting about recreational fishing?
knowledge: The most common form of recreational fishing is done with a rod, reel, line, hooks and any one of a wide range of baits.
response: Hmm, just that it's done with hooks, a rod, reel, line and bait.
history: I enjoy fishing, but I catch things like old boots, turtles, and even caught a snake once.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong!
Haha.  Are you fishing for pleasure or for competition?
Just for pleasure.  I am trying to teach my son, but I'm afraid the only thing he has learned from me is that it's a myth that there are fish in the lake!
Hah!   The contrast is subsistence fishing, for survival, or commercial fishing, for profit.
Oh I see, well can you tell me anything interesting about recreational fishing?
Hmm, just that it's done with hooks, a rod, reel, line and bait.
It took me two times fishing to get up the nerve to put crickets on my hook, and another 3 or so to get son to do it!  Maybe I should use something else.
knowledge: Lures are frequently used in place of bait.
response: Have you tried using lures instead of fresh bait?