Shadowing Practice: Fishing Is The Worst... - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Come in and sit down because today we're gonna be talking about fishing!

When the hustle and bustle of everyday life has you stressed out, there's nothing quite as relaxing as a fishing trip with the boys, with the fellas, right?

Which I've been trying to get the team to go fishing forever because it's been stressed, but Nick doesn't want to go.

I'm scared.

Fish scare me.

They're kind of scary, aren't they?

Put a picture of a fish.

You ever had to get a fish while they're alive?

I never feel good about it.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

In any of the hunting or fishing, I never actually liked doing any.

I didn't like killing any of them.

Sad.

It is.

Even for hunting, I remember my dad would take me hunting and I'd intentionally shoot over the deer.

Oh, yeah, you told me.

Or sometimes I just wish I had it in my sights and I'd just do bang.

And that's it.

You should have pointed a gun at your dad.

Yeah.

Sorry, dad.

Hunter, Jesus Christ!

Where is a deer now?

What if it would just...

You could probably get away with that, right?

You shoot your dad and bury him in the woods.

I don't know where dad went.

He ran off with a tall Puerto Rican woman.

Mommy said that he wasn't even sorry.

I guess we shouldn't look for him.

I would shoot him and be like, oh my God, it was an accident.

He got in front of me like...

Oh, so you're like...

Like a shady!

You're like, sorry, daddy.

Boom, and then you run off and you're just like, he was showing me how to do it.

He walked in front of the gun and actually shot it.

How are you gonna...

How is anyone gonna know?

It's you and the deers.

The tree cam?

Or like the trail cams.

Yeah.

You see deers and night vision.

And then all of a sudden you see you standing there just point blank shooting your dad

and you're like dancing over him and stuff.

I will say the only way that works is a one and done.

You better not miss.

Oh yeah.

If you got a double tap they're going to be like why is it cheating?

Yeah.

There are people out there that claim fishing is one of the most boring and uneventful ways to spend your time.

So it's hard for them to understand how people within the community live every day looking forward to their next cast.

But it's true!

Across...

But it's true!

Fishing enthusiasts are some of the most passionate hobbyists out there, only second to those in the competitive scene.

Fishing can be done in all sorts of ways, from the typical setup most of you have likely tried, to much more extreme and life-threatening variations like dynamite fishing.

So today, let's take a look at how dedicated and hardcore the fishing community really is.

We should do that dynamite fishing.

I have. Have you?

Oh, shit.

I would say that it's not as uncommon.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

It's stupid.

You shouldn't do it.

But, you know, I would say if you're from the South Midwest region, whatever, a lot of these things are a lot more normal than you would expect.

Or whenever people are like, you did what?

You fished with dynamite?

You're like, yeah.

I've seen too many videos of people losing their hands with explosives.

Dude, the amount of...

Even fireworks now.

The amount of videos I've seen of a guy holding something, and you literally see his hand, it's all falling off.

It's crazy that they don't react really.

No. They're in shock.

The worst one I've seen was these kids put an M80 in a glass bottle.

Why would you do it?

Yeah, I have no idea.

Just rip them to shreds?

Yeah, for shrapnel.

Well, I mean, I think it's like, it's always that pause.

Oh my god!

You got the slight, it's the bang, absolute sides, then...

Yeah, yeah, no, I know what you mean.

Nick, let me ask you this.

This is a fishing video.

If you were a fish, which fish would you be?

I already know the fish I'd be. Be trout.

I was gonna say the same thing.

Really?

I was gonna say a rainbow trout.

Oh, rainbow trout!

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Yeah.

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Ah!

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Rainbow Trout Brothers.

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Yes! game.

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Fishing isn't just some kind of boomer sport.

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In fact, younger and younger generations are flocking to it.

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It could be due to the influx of fishing content that has hit short-form platforms, making it easier to see the highlights the sport has to offer, working as an approachable guide to entering the hobby.

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It's a way to separate yourself from the busy world

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and spend time with friends or even just yourself while enjoying nature and the potential of catching something impressive.

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I think it's the same thing.

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People of younger generations are going in droves to fishing the same way

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that I see a lot of younger people also crocheting again.

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It's going back to traditional thing where you have like you

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have an actual like you're working towards something it's the same thing like

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when catching fish if you're doing it of like even catch

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and release it's the satisfaction of being like of the ritual

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or even catching something and eating it for dinner that night or

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so i think people are coming back to a more traditional

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way of wanting at least a younger generation i've been just

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crocheting crazy the amount of crocheters i see now i've tried catch

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and release and it just always kills the fish

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when it rip the hook out how are you ripping You're just tearing it all the way down to his belly.

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Mmm, sorry fishy.

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You get stuck back there and you're like, and then you throw it back in and it just floats.

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Here, come on camera and then float the way you said that.

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This poor rainbow trout's floating.

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He's floating like this.

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Hold on.

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He's just going.

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You alive?

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That's you.

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You alive down there, buddy?

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Come on, buddy!

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Exactly.

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He just hasn't had the water in his gills yet.

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Come on, buddy.

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Get down there.

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It's kind of like me and the hamster.

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Did I tell his hamster story?

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Did you kill your hamster?

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I think so.

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Or he was overheating.

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I like to believe he was overheating, and I just put the final nail in the coffin.

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But I had a mean hamster and a nice hamster, and I took the nice hamster out, and I tried putting him in his little ball, and I think I dropped him in.

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He landed on his back, and I was like, oh, no. Scooped him out, put him back in his little hamster hotel, and he wasn't moving!

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So I tried to wake him up by pushing him down the slide.

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He just pathetically like went down, plopped, and I was like, uh-oh.

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Are you saying that you spiked the hamster into a ball on the ground?

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That's where he's not moving.

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Come on, Mr. Whiskers, wake up!

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We had like a Siberian hamster, most evil thing.

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You put your hand in there, Just I could stick to it.

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You have to I don't know if he bit me.

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He's fighting for his life in there, Nick.

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It's overheating.

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You guys put him right by the fucking window.

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He's boiling alive in a plastic box.

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Carcinogens floating all around him.

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I'm surprised the Siberian hamster didn't die because he bit my finger and I went and flew that sucker across.

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He fucking threw the slung slung shot that motherfucker around the room, didn't you?

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Yeah, hit the ceiling fan.

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Get shot around the room.

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Now back to the video!

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It's clear that fishing brands want to cater to younger generations, as fishing merchandise have evolved from the Boomer Dad, Fish Fear Me aesthetic, which I think is wrong.

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That's the wrong...

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We need to stay in that realm.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Now, several brands will team up with IPs like Hatsune Miku, Evangelion, and One Piece to make things like glow-in-the-dark fishing rods or heavily themed accessories.

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One Piece won't make sense to me.

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That's if it was Ocean.

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Oh, yeah.

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Why not?

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Why would you not?

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There's fish all the time in that show.

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Yeah, they cook fish.

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Sanji cooks everybody fishing.

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If it's Eva, though, it should be the hand.

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With the bait in it.

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Yeah, it's the bait and lure.

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I'm so fucked up.

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However, some still gladly go on shops like Etsy to buy insanely raunchy fishing shirts that read things like, and I quote, I like it when she bends over,

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and I love it when she tugs on my worm and swallows.

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It's a pretty sweet shirt.

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We should get that shirt.

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Or branded shirts for made-up charter companies called Mike Litterus.

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To get a glimpse at just how far the love of fishing can go, look no further than the competitive fishing scene.

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Typically, a fishing competition is when multiple people fish in the same area under a set amount of time.

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The one who captures the more impressive fish under specific scoring criteria wins.

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But, like with any sport, there are competitors that will do anything to win.

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Even the fishing scene, there are cheaters.

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Which, let me tell you something.

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This is one of the main reasons I wanted to make this video.

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It's because I got down the fucking rabbit hole of people catching other people cheating.

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In competitive fishing.

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Gold mine.

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Gold mine.

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There's weights in fish!

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When you hear that, it's like a fucking...

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That's how I feel every time.

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It makes sense.

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Like, is there thousands of dollars online?

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Oh, dude, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You'll see.

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I'm sure we'll talk about it here.

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Over in Guernsey, in the Ballywick Bass Club competition, was hosted in 2012 and held a 800-pound prize.

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Matthew Andrew Clark had no interest in losing the payout, so he devised an elaborate plan.

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He snuck off to a local aquarium in St. Peter's Port to scope out a fish

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that was big enough to win the competition.

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After spotting a 13-pound bass, he reached in and stole it from his home of over 15 years.

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And during the competition, he pretended to fish like his life depended on it before yanking out the stolen bass.

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Matthew won the competition, proudly posing for photos with a shit-eating grin on his face.

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And what he didn't count on was another competitor somehow recognized the fish after visiting the same aquarium.

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He informed the police, and Matthew denied committing the crime as long as he could before he was at the end of his rope.

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He was put on probation and sentenced to 100 hours of community service, which I gotta say, very sad.

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Poor fish.

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Where are we going?

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Glub, glub.

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Glub, glub.

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You think if he just put it back, though, there'd be no crime?

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He's just like, well, I guess he's out of the water.

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He might be dead.

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That's a bold crime to actually do, especially the big fisher.

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Of course those motherfuckers are going to an aquarium.

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How do you spot that?

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How do you know it's like, goddamn, there's fucking jam from the aquarium?

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13-pound fish is huge.

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That's crazy.

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To where you probably are like, that's impressive.

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Yeah.

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Or all those fishermen going up there and being like fantasizing.

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Man, what I wouldn't do.

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What I wouldn't give to catch somebody as big as you.

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Come on now.

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You think there's like some fisher files out there?

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Come grab the hook.

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Oh, dude, yeah.

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I'm pretty sure there was a book out there written by a guy who had sex with a dolphin.

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He said he had a relationship with a dolphin.

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You think people put, like, you know, like a little peanut butter on their tip and just plop it up.

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Probably.

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Like, on the surface of the water waiting for a little...

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Yeah, you just...

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I mean, probably.

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Anyone ever do that before?

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That'd be a weird experiment, right?

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You went out in water and had trout nibbling at your cock for a bit.

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This is a smaller event with a menial prize, so Clark's punishment wasn't nearly as drastic as it could have been.

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However, this is child's play compared to how cheating is handled at a more prestigious event.

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Over in Cleveland, Ohio, uh-oh, the 2022 Lake Erie Walleye Trail held a big fishing tournament.

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Unlike the last event we mentioned, people were paying hundreds of dollars to enter one of their multiple events, and the prize money of the line was far greater.

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Look at the dollar amount here.

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Not just that, but official events like this pave the way to brand sponsorships and other benefits, so competitors take the circuit very, very seriously.

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Not only is it the prize money, but it's also a potential professional fishing career that you could have.

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The goal was to catch five of the heaviest walleye fish possible, with the highest weight to beat after the contest ended being nearly 17 pounds.

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Somehow, the team consisting of 43-year-old Jacob Runyon

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and 36-year-old Chase Komsky dominated the competition with a total weigh-in of around 34 pounds of walleye fish.

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They were crowned the winners, but people were heavily suspicious about the turnout, especially because they'd already been under suspicion of cheating doing consistently well in previous year's events, right?

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No one could be that hot forever, right?

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As complaints started to swarm event officials, tournament director Jason Fisher, good name for that,

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yeah, decided to put things to rest by slicing open the fish and checking inside to confirm their weight was natural.

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In a now viral video, Fisher opens up one to immediately find lead weights and fish fillets pouring out of them, and he screams, We got weights and fish!

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We got weights and fish!

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And all at once, a crowd descended upon them, screaming and cursing him out as Jacob is seen standing in stunned silence.

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Get the f* out of here!

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Let me tell you, the first time I watched this video, it's so hyped.

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I didn't know what was going on really at first.

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But it is, it's, I mean, it's like, It's like finding out that the guy that they're screaming at has kidnapped a child.

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He's like, she's over here!

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You know, that kind of thing.

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It's insane.

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Jacob and Chase's $28,000 worth of prizes were quickly denied.

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I mean, 30 grand.

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I'd be pissed too.

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Which I would be fucking pissed for too.

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And also, how many times have they gotten away with it?

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Where now there's like word of mouth kicking around?

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Oh, I'd take every prize they won.

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Oh, yeah.

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Just like magic.

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Yu Yu Watanabe.

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Yu Yu Watanabe style.

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Yeah, do the same thing.

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Fortunately for them, Fisher was a police sergeant

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and was able to get them to leave before they were torn apart by the mob.

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Everything was turned over as evidence, and the processing investigation led to their fishing licenses being suspended

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and a $2,500 fine and the $130,000 boat they used in the event being seized.

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They're now the laughingstock of the pro fishing world.

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130 grand fishing boat gone.

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Was it worth it?

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Yeah.

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Fishing is such a fixation for some people that it makes companionship hard to maintain, Especially if you haven't found a fish loving partner.

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That's why across many fishing communities online you'll find frequent post about dating

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and Relationships I didn't think that I didn't know this is where we were going

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Some of the biggest posts of them consist of men showing

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off the big fish They got despite being dumped by the love of their lives the set same day I mean, how could you leave me when I just caught this?

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I mean like seriously Rebecca Just fucking leave if that's the case.

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I like how this guy zip tied his wedding ring to the fish's tail What is the point of that?

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Yeah, I don't know.

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The fish is clearly dead on the sidewalk here.

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What if this is outside of his house?

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That's his wife's ring.

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Uh, yeah.

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Fucking keep it.

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Keep it, bitch.

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Oh, maybe that's what he did.

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Threw the fish in here.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Fucking take it!

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Some men will get much more theatric, like Captain Jason Rose, who had been divorced after a near 10-year marriage.

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Eventually, he wanted to get rid of his wedding band while also expressing a stern fuck you to the woman

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who never supported his fishing hobby.

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He zip tied the ring around the tail of a steelhead trout

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and threw it back into the water where it was eventually caught by a man named Jim Nelligan

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while fishing in the Lake Michigan, turning the event into a public news story.

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Oh, so, okay.

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So the guy who, the photo we just saw, that's the guy who caught it.

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He's like, what the hell is this?

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And then yeah, the guy showed up with, took off his like his hat.

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Sir, you just found my wedding ring.

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Some avid anglers can't even be bothered to attend a wedding.

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One woman rants online about how her father was

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so dead set on his fishing tournament that he chose to go to that over her own wedding, despite it being scheduled over a year prior.

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Call me, baby.

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Exactly.

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Darling, you look beautiful, but I have got to get out there.

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That's just the guy who doesn't want to go to the wedding.

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Do you fucking blame him?

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When have you ever been to a fun wedding, actually?

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I mean, if you were not the bride or groom, you're not having a good time.

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Well, you get some pussy there from bridesmaids.

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A little wedding crasher meme?

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Well, that's fun.

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Have you done that?

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You've never gotten pussy at a wedding, have you?

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I've gotten made fun of by the...

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Harry and our buddy Joey were dancing.

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I forgot I said something, and they totally dissed me.

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They're just like, I forget.

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But they embarrassed me, and I just sulked back to my table.

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What a colorful story.

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Thank you.

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Thanks for pretending to walk like a chimp.

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Like I stole back to my table.

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To make matters worse, the tournament wouldn't even begin until a week after the wedding.

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He just wanted to get there a week early.

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I gotta get there early.

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I mean, come on, I gotta get my spot.

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It's like camping.

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I'm still on his side.

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It's a lot to prepare for, you know?

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I have to emotionally prepare for it.

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Gotta get out there.

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Gotta feel the water.

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You're probably doing a couple practice rounds.

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Ooh!

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See, I would say, honey, I don't wanna- Or, sweetie, I don't wanna show up for the wedding, but I'll support you on this honeymoon.

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That's where the real funds at.

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Do you think he did that so he didn't have to front the bill?

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Oh.

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Cause isn't it the wife's, dad's responsibility to pay for the wedding?

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Kinda fucked up tradition is that, too.

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You know what I mean?

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Well, because the man provides, you know, so it's like the woman's gotta offer something.

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Oh my god!

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That's- What is wrong with you today?

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That- What?

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What?

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That's...

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First of all, the woman's gonna have to fight.

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You're talking about her dad.

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Yeah!

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Her dad's paying for it.

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It's like a...

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It's a dowry.

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It's gotta be like...

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Basically, this is old tradition.

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It's a thing of like, you're accepting this woman into your family.

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If you're taking my little daughter away from me and giving her a new last name, you're paying for the fucking wedding.

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Hey.

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Cha-ching!

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There it is.

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Put it on your card, dude.

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She's not mine anymore, apparently.

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The dowry's like, you know, you're about to take on this heavy burden of this woman who will not...

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Pfft.. do anything.

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My daughter and she is a big ol' girl.

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No, I'll get the bill because you have got your hands full.

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She's like, thank you, Paul.

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You look beautiful today.

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Now I'm going to get the hell out of here.

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You guys have fun.

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When it comes to dating, women claim that one of the biggest turnoffs ever is guys posting pictures holding the fish they've caught.

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In fact, a survey consisting of 2200 adult dating app users from the UK revealed

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that this type of photo was one of the quickest things

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that made them swipe left only next to the men posting photos of themselves with their ex-partners cropped out of them.

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That is very lazy, isn't it?

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God damn, I look good in that.

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I would expect UK women to be like, I like that because they like fish and chips.

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Oh, that's nice.

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I'll take a baked potato with tuna.

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Wouldn't you expect a British girl to like a fisherman, though?

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Oh, I think fishermen are notoriously abusive.

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Where are you getting this from?

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You've brought up domestic abuse so much. For what?

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For what reason?

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Is there actually anything that's backing that up?

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It's the stereotype of they get drunk, you know, they go out fishing, they come home, beat their wife, and daddy's little girl doesn't like seeing that,

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so they want to marry a different man.

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daddy's little girl wow for people angered by this you'll be happy to know

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that there are plenty of dating apps catering specifically to the

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fishing community there are platforms like fair game for fishers

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and hunters and even offshoots like fly lords

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that cater to fly fishers you would assume right you would

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assume there's got to be a dating market for everything is there like a dating app for every subsect now

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because remember back in the day the big ones were like

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when it was was it christian mingle

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and then farmers only whatever those are the two ones i

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remember i had like broadcast television where you're like what there's literally like a dating website called like fet life

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or something and it's for fetishes so then you like i would imagine

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that would be

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because then it's just easier yeah let's just cut to the

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chase exactly let me ask you this as someone who's still in the active dating scene

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and stuff does these dating websites do they have things now

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where there's categories like i'd almost expect these dating websites like tinder

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or like facebook dating or whatever to have a thing where it's like okay it's this

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and you literally it's like a spreadsheet thing of like you're a christian furry whatever

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and it puts you in this category or like a certain box

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or is it still just free for all it's free for

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all the biggest one is just interest it'll matter like there's filters on some of the apps

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but you have to pay for them

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but it tries to match you up like if you like reading

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or going to museums or art it'll be like This person likes these same things as you.

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Oh, so it's basically saying like what your checklist is versus your check- or their checklist and comparing them?

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Because these apps are still conventional dating, which is like a lot of these specific ones feel like fetish ones where it's like- You think so?

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Yeah, I think so.

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Even like Farmers Only or even like the fishing ones?

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You think that's like a fetish website?

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I think it's trying to- Maybe.

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We're- I mean, if that's like the specific type- If you are only ever interested in a fishing person, is it not nice to just be like i'm on this

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website with someone who's like like-minded the same way i was i was saying though where it's like

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if you could break down your experience to just being like i literally only want this yeah a furry person

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or whatever there's furries only is there probably is there probably is something like

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that but i'm just saying like

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if you had it to where it was like facebook dating

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or tinder i'm surprised they haven't done

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that to where it's like it just literally meant to mitigate your experience

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but then i guess it's not as evergreen yeah they're not making as much money

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if you're not like if you run out of swipes what's the point yeah

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when most people decide to go fishing they'll pick up a regular rod

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and reel for some anglers however

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that is simply not intense enough many likely aren't aware of

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how much variety there is in the world of fishing gear ice fishing is a massive winter time sport

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that has lots of anglers participate in it every year all

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you have to do is go to a lake drill a hole in some ice

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and get fishing right you just drop the lure down

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and just wait in some instances people will sit out in a chair

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or bucket in the elements but others go above

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and beyond bringing massive lodges onto the lakes typically ice fishing huts are basically tents

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but these pale in comparison to some of the more luxurious fishing huts on the market

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if you wanted there are rentable houses with heat indoor bathrooms

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and bunk beds full kitchens

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and wi-fi this way you can practically live out on the lake

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and be ice fishing all day i would be horrified that it would break and i would be singing

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I've seen someone who's they cut a hole in their car to go ice fishing

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and they just got a little like cork they pop out

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That's pretty sweet actually These lake mansions have holes in the floor

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that allow you to remove the cover

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and fish at any time of day Larger huts are usually found far north

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because the ice is much thicker there Otherwise they'd fall straight through

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and you'd fucking drown or just destroy it That's no good

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Falling through the ice is the biggest fear of any ice fisherman In fact, it's more common than you think Some people don't check the ice reports before heading out

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and drive their two-ton truck onto the ice, only for it to break through and sink to the bottom of the goddamn lake.

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Happens to the best of us.

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Another fall risk occurs when too many fishermen cut through the ice at once, causing it to break apart and send everyone into the lake.

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I would say overall, ice fishing is generally accepted everywhere it gets cold enough, but some cities ban fishermen from going on the ice at all.

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In Hudson, Ohio, the mayor was laughed out for his ridiculous reason for not allowing ice fishing.

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He claimed that allowing ice fishermen would lead to homeless people putting ice shanties on the lake.

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Basically, he said that the homeless would...

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The homeless would populate the lake.

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He also argued that this would escalate into ice shanty brothels out in the lake, and he would simply not want the sheriff to get involved.

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And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem.

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Prostitution.

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I don't want people fucking out on the lake with homeless people.

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I just...

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We don't want to get the sheriff.

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If we just, we just, we're gonna stop.

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If freezing out on a lake

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and using a reel doesn't interest you lots of anglers use

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more interesting methods to capture their prey bow fishing is an

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extremely popular form of fishing you use a regular composite bow except the arrows are attached to a string

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that is retracted by a reel the boats bow fishers use

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are much different as well they're practically warships on lakes the biggest difference is a massive elevated shooting deck

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that gives the fishermen an advantage when shooting into the water.

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Many anglers choose to bowfish at night by using massive LED

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lights just below the shooting deck to illuminate the fish in the water, making them easier targets, which to me, I'm like, you know what?

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What the fuck's the fun in that?

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To be fair though, if it isn't, if it's for actually eating, then I mean, what do we do?

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I need to get food.

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But if it's something for recreational use, turn the fucking light off, dude.

534

You already have a fucking crossbow you're shooting into the water, you know?

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While fishing is generally pretty regulated in the US, plenty of fishermen still bring firearms out into the water and turn their catches into red paste.

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You know, come on.

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Where do you think we're at?

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In Wisconsin, the DNR was struggling to prevent people from blasting fish out of the sky, so they passed a law making it illegal for fishermen to even carry a gun.

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This law was recently repealed, but after doing so, they had to beg people to stop shooting fish.

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Please!

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Stop!

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Another illegal form of fishing is blast fishing, otherwise known as dynamite fishing.

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This form of fishing is banned worldwide because of the damage it does to the ecosystems, Also, out of every 10 fish you blast, you might catch five and leave the other five basically vaporized.

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And also, people blow up.

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It's probably the biggest one.

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I'm telling you, people...

547

The amount of hands I've just seen get eviscerated online is unbelievable.

548

Also, dynamite?

549

An actual stick of dynamite?

550

Yeah.

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You throw the water. And then blasts up.

552

Little Wile E.

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Coyote stick of dynamite, dude.

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It's also fairly common for the fishermen to get caught in the blast, regardless of whether they're on or off land.

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For example, in 2025, two blast fishermen from the Philippines died after they leveled their home, making ammonium nitrate bombs.

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Be a bummer, wouldn't it?

557

Yeah, I'm dead bummer.

558

I thought about getting into pyrotechnics when I was younger, but I was too scared that I'd blow myself up.

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Why?

560

Why?

561

Why would you think about getting into pyrotechnics?

562

Oh, for filmmaking?

563

I was like, oh, I'm gonna make a squib.

564

Oh, you said what you're saying, though, is you're like, I wanted to get into special effects.

565

Yeah, exactly.

566

But I was too scared, because I was like, oh, I'm gonna make a squib.

567

And I was like, get black powder.

568

And I'm just afraid that...

569

Oh, because it has to do a little pop?

570

Yeah.

571

Which, I mean, the small amount on you is not going to cause harm, but it's just getting, like, the big gallon bucket of powder, and my ass would...

572

Yeah, I'm blowing up.

573

Over in Malaysia, two tourists

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and a local diving instructor were found dead surrounded by fish after a fishman dropped bombs on them.

575

After diving about 20 feet down, the trio was hit by a homemade bomb that damaged the nearby coral, broke their mask and killed several fish.

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Their bodies were discovered when the boat driver returned to the area

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and saw their bodies along the massive amounts of sea foam.

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Nobody in the area heard any explosions, but the victim's autopsies confirmed that they had suffered from major internal injuries from a blast.

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Police would launch an investigation and arrest two fishermen in the connection with the murder.

580

How crazy is that, actually?

581

I didn't even think about that.

582

Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

583

I've never even thought about divers or just being like, oh, you're fishing and you don't know people are diving down there.

584

Well, you know, I think that you would probably just assume

585

that you would see their boat or something

586

but even then you just you never know exactly you don't

587

know how far they've traveled yeah yeah that's that's horrifying also

588

yeah you can probably see their boat over there can you imagine being like swimming yeah

589

and you just see or something i mean that'd be wild man also

590

that doesn't sound like an instant death no i think they probably got injured

591

and drowned or something which would just it's just horrifying oh god

592

or like they had their ears are ruptured their tank ruptured

593

too brutal what a horrible way to die my god i like how they drove off to Yeah.

594

Uh-oh.

595

That's okay.

596

Yeah, you with your hamster.

597

You all right down there, buddy?

598

There are all sorts of equipment you could choose to fish with, but some would rather just use their hands.

599

Noodling is one of the most basic forms of fishing

600

and inquires the angler to stick their hands into holes along the riverbank, hoping a catfish bites on so they can pull them out.

601

You ever see that?

602

That's one that I feel like I could never do.

603

I could never do that either.

604

It freaks me out.

605

I feel like, yeah, they...

606

Sometimes it's referred to as tickling or hogging, and it's legal in 17 states, most of which are in the South which I think that's like mostly where you can do this kind of stuff.

607

It's like the mud fish, like catfish, all that kind of stuff.

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The hardest part of noodling is finding a hole to reach into.

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It's also the most dangerous part, as you never know what could be in the hole waiting to bite.

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One seasoned noodler described all the injuries he's seen over the years during an interview.

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It's amazing that he still returns for more.

612

It has come for people to break their fingers when the fish latches onto their hands.

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It's also come for people's hands to turn black and blue, or for their noses to be busted from the fish violently thrashing.

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In one instance, the man had to take his brother to the ER after a channel catfish

615

impaled his arm with its dorsal fin.

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While reaching into holes, people have also been cut by straight underwater rebar and submerged barrels where fish live.

617

Another big risk of noodling is drowning.

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People underestimate how strong currents as well as the catfish themselves can be.

619

People have caught 80 to 100 pound catfish with their bare hands.

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During these outings, most noodlers have a spotter.

621

Because if the fish is big enough or if their hand gets stuck in the hole, they have to be pulled out of the water.

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You gotta go with your buddy.

623

That's insane.

624

80 to 100 pound catfish?

625

Fuck's sakes, man.

626

Strong motherfuckers doing that stuff.

627

I mean, fuck.

628

Also, yeah, I was gonna say, it's fighting shit.

629

My God.

630

We can go on all day about fish-related accidents, but fish aren't the only threat out on the boat.

631

Fishing is a sport that can get people pretty worked up, which is why some of the biggest threats to a fisherman are the people around him.

632

Recently, an unhinged video went viral in

633

which an adult man from a lakefront property was furious to see a 14-year-old kid

634

and his friend fishing in the lake what started as threats

635

of physical violence immediately escalated into the adult slapping the child before pushing him onto the ground

636

and holding his head underwater for several seconds eventually people stepped in

637

and ripped them apart

638

which is just fucking insane see that's the kind of guy where i'm like those kind like

639

when it's a adult man it's first off you're fishing to

640

not have the mental fortitude just to be like you know

641

what they're not supposed to be here i'm gonna like call somebody

642

and get like to to back off but to escalate to violence like

643

that for me personally fight

644

but my opinion nick can i say my opinion say your opinion you may people like

645

that should have their legs broken well conveniently the kid in

646

the story had broken legs well that's why i couldn't fight

647

back then is what you're saying yeah he was on crutches

648

and then yeah the guy went up to him slapped him threw him in the water what's weird is

649

that his friends didn't pull him off for like a good couple minutes

650

which i was like the second they hit the water i'd

651

be trying to break it up i could i mean i don't think i mean to me that's not

652

that crazy you're shot you're young you're shocked whatever huh i

653

don't want him to hurt me yeah yeah whatever granted it's easy in hindsight to be like

654

if it was my boy i'd help whatever that's true

655

but nick somebody's slapping you around i don't know maybe i

656

hide around a corner i'd snap i'd go banana yeah jump on his back yeah

657

so i i thought

658

if i ever got into a fight i would go straight

659

for the kill i wouldn't mess around get on the back

660

choke him out bite his ear you gotta do you got

661

it yeah i ain't messing around a lot of people don't know how to do

662

that though like me i i'm too fat and clumsy there's There's no way it would happen.

663

Try to go immediately trip.

664

Fall to the ground.

665

All right, we're good.

666

Most people think of fishing as simply as a hobby, but that is far from the truth.

667

Fishing is an entire lifestyle for some.

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One that can be extremely rewarding and almost therapeutic.

669

If you're unsure about whether or not it's for you, stir it small.

670

Grab a few beers and a couple of buddies and you just might understand why people are absolutely hooked on it.

671

See what we did there?

672

But no, seriously, if you haven't fished before, try it.

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It's fun.

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And also you do a thing with catch and release.

675

You don't have to be like Nick.

676

I don't know what the fuck.

677

It's usually very easy to grab a fish and just do it and throw it back out.

678

I don't know what you're talking about.

679

I think Nick is like sticking his whole hand in there and being like, that's weird fishy dead.

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It's a good time, though.

681

It's therapeutic.

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Also, it's an excuse to even if it's, even if you don't even fish, get on a boat and just float on some water.

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I'm telling you, it's heaven.

684

Literally just sit out there and float.

685

That's what we would do.

686

We'd just go up to the lake and just drink and get sick.

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There it is.

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And that's our video today.

689

I hope you liked it.

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Stay fishing, friends.

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Bye!

692

Bye!

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Are we going fishing?

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Let's go fishing!

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Fishing Is The Worst..”. Deze video bevat 694 zinnen en 7056 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 32:32. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 217 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
helix zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhiːlɪks/	helix, schroeflijn
mattress zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmætɹɪs/	matras
fisherman zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/	visser
hamster zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈhæm(p)stɚ/	hamster
fisher zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɪʃɚ/	visser
dynamite zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdaɪ.nəˌmaɪt/	dynamiet
catfish zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkætfɪʃ/	meerval
float werkwoord	/fləʊt/	drijven
pillow zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɪl.oʊ/ [ˈpʰɪɫ.ö̞]	hoofdkussen, oorkussen
blast zelfstandig naamwoord	/blæst/	windstoot, rukwind
aquarium zelfstandig naamwoord	/əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/	aquarium
cheat werkwoord	/ˈt͡ʃiːt/	valsspelen, bedriegen
deer zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɪɹ/	hert
noodle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈnu.dəl/	noedel
walleye zelfstandig naamwoord		divergent strabisme

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
find out werkwoord		ontdekken, onderzoeken
look forward to werkwoord		uitkijken naar, zich verheugen op
back out werkwoord		zich terugtrekken
break down werkwoord		stukgaan, kapot gaan
bring up werkwoord		opvoeden
fill out werkwoord	/fɪl ˈaʊt/	invullen
get off werkwoord		van ... afgaan
go out werkwoord		naar buiten gaan

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

You ever had to get a fish while they're alive?
You think there's like some fisher files out there?
You've never gotten pussy at a wedding, have you?
You think that's like a fetish website?
Where do you think we're at?

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De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg	if it was my boy i'd help
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	I've seen · has hit · i've been
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	been stressed · can be done · is sponsored
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	sleep which has · one who captures · guy who had

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 198 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: fisherman /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/, fisher /ˈfɪʃɚ/, catfish /ˈkætfɪʃ/, crochet /kɹoʊˈʃeɪ/, fetish /ˈfɛt.ɪʃ/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: aquarium /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/, pyrotechnics /ˌpaɪ.roʊˈtɛk.nɪks/, competitor /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pound /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, glub /ɡlʌb/, dive /daɪv/, squib /skwɪb/, quiz /kwɪz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: mattress /ˈmætɹɪs/, hamster /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/, catfish /ˈkætfɪʃ/, angler /ˈæŋ.ɡlɚ/, blast /blæst/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: angler /ˈæŋ.ɡlɚ/, glub /ɡlʌb/, upgrade /əpˈɡɹeɪd/

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