# stick fishing - Link: https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/ - Published: 2012-01-28T03:53:00-07:00 - Author: My Walkabout Some of my earliest, happiest memories involve fishing. Sitting with my Mom and Pop along a lake shore as a child, biking with my best friends to a local pond during the long summer vacations as a kid, and more recently sitting solitary along a slow moving river just reading and enjoying nature. But I’d never thought I would be stick fishing for piranhas in the Amazon. [the_ad id=”13633″] [[ _“Life is funny” _I thought as I was handed a raw chunk of beef to use as bait. With the line only being about fifteen feet long at the most, tied to a five foot stick, I flung the raw meat as far as possible into the green water, letting my natural fishing instincts kick in. It wasn’t more than a few seconds when I felt the first hard bite. I soon got a feel for how the fish were hitting the bait, and before long I was flinging piranha’s into our boat, to the amazement of the other fishers and the guide.I was in heaven.The others kept asking me for my secret, but I didn’t have one. It would be like asking Michael Jordan how to play basketball, or Stephen King how to write horror.You just do. [[ As tales of fishing go, this day was one that will be drifting at the top. ### Share this: * [ Email ](https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20stick%20fishing&body=https%3A%2F%2Fmywalkabout.net%2Fstick-fishing%2F&share=email) * [Post](https://x.com/share) * [Share on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/share) * [ WhatsApp ](https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/?share=jetpack-whatsapp) * [ Nextdoor ](https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/?share=nextdoor) * [ Threads ](https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/?share=threads) * [[ * [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) * [ Reddit ](https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/?share=reddit) ### Like this: Like Loading… ## Comments ### By: Dicky Carter is... - Link: https://mywalkabout.net/stick-fishing/#comment-384 - Published: 2012-01-28T08:05:50-07:00 That sure has some teeth on it. Lots of fishing history in my family too. Both granddads were big on fishing. Great photo. Loading...