Wednesday 25 February 2009

Gay Fishermen

On my way home I found myself stuck behind a white van.
It was one of those ones that's so in need of a wash that someone's written something amusing in it.
Except it wasn't anything amusing. It wasn't about wishing any female relation or acquaintance was as dirty as said vehicle but rather it had just two words:
GAY FISHERMEN

Yeah. What?! Why would you write that? It was an EDF van, so it's unlikely that as well as fixing people's meters the driver and his faux fisherman's friend liked to don leather waders and catch a cod.

Why would you write that on someone's van?
I came home and googled it. A bit dangerous I know, but there's not many gay fishermen it turns out (God, I hope my wife doesn't check out internet history)... One site for Gay Fly Fishermen was set up last year and they were hoping to arrange an outing (so to speak) for a group of men but it looks like perhaps it didn't go down too well (so to spea.. yeah, sorry). I felt quite sad for that Gay Fisherman, he'd never even posted on his blog. He had a lovely logo and everything. Type Gay Fisermen into Amazon and there was nothing although in 1971 a band called the Liverpool Fishermen did release an album called Swallow The Anchor - on which subject my mouth remains closed. In every way. Also (what?! don't judge me) I did find an American couple called Mr & Mrs Gay who do indeed like to indulge in sea fishing but it seems unlikely they decided to scrawl on a van on the A120.

So, I'm still none the wiser. But it did make me realise that being a gay fisherman could probably be a lonely existence and maybe one had tried to advertise on the back of this van but that it pulled away before he/she could finish their plug. It reminded me of a song by Corky & The Juice Pigs called The Only Gay Eskimo, who let's face it do fish. So, here's someone's interpretation of that video. Trust me it's safer than the other youtube effort claiming to be a gay fisherman: that really didn't look like fish he was reeling in and frankly he's more likely to catch something else with that kind of behaviour. Anyway...



6 comments:

  1. Steve, hey, that was my van ! Hoping to catch someting for dinner on the highway... :D

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  2. Yes Steve, it is a lonely life. So I am gay and I like to fish. My Dad and I fished all the time on the west coast of Florida. He had a decent little boat and it was as much about being out in nature as it was fishing. We had a great time and he is gone now. Try to ask someone who is gay if they would like to go fishing and they are liable to laugh. I don't know if it is built into our genes and I don't have the no fishing gene or what. It is just that it is more enjoyable to be out with someone you can talk to than sitting in a boat alone. We used to keep as many as needed to eat. Now it is just catch and release - better for the fish I guess. On top of it I am a baker down in Key West. They seem an endangered species too.

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    1. hey lets start Gay Fishermen's Association, or "GAYFA" lol

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  3. LOL I'm both a gay eskimo AND fishermen here in Alaska :)

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    1. you can see my salmon fishing pics here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.924147059731.2261876.1006544&type=3

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  4. Interesting. I am gay, and I have been an avid and passionate fisherman all of my life. I also work for a national, nonprofit conservation organization, called Trout Unlimited, made up primarily of fishermen working to protect, restore and sustain wild trout, salmon, steelhead and their watersheds. I don't find it a lonely existence at all. I don't go fishing to find dates, relationships, boyfriends or have sex -- I go fishing to fish. I usually prefer to go alone, but don't mind going with straight friends. Plenty of straight guys go fishing without woman, and plenty of straight woman go fishing without men . . . I certainly don't mind fishing with my friends who are straight men and woman. I'm not quite sure why anyone would assume a gay fisherman would have to, or only want to, fish with other gay fisherman? Seems pretty ridiculous, no? Are heterosexual fishermen lonely if they can't find heterosexual women to fish with?

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