Fishing quandary

[FlyWright]

OK everybody! I need your help with this one. It's a quandary for me and I can use some direction.

Let's say that due to some freak in nature, you arrive at the dock with your bait and beer to load aboard and cast off for a dream 3-day fishing trip. You learn that you can either load your bait OR your beer, but not both!

Which do you take and why?

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. FW. Take the bait. You can drink beer in your living room but you can't catch fish there.

 

[Ski in NC]

Silly question. All problems have a solution. Figure out a way to take both.

But I do agree with FF. His logic is pretty solid.

 

[Rogerit]

Drink the beer on the dock, then go fishing!

 

[Drake]

Take the beer. You can catch some bait when you get there.

Or, if not, who cares? Isn't the main point of fishing to have an excuse to drink beer?

 

[klee wyck]

Take the bait. Where I come from, fishing is serious business and you don't crack the beer cooler open until the fish cooler is full.

 

[gaston]

Get a new wife the one you have is hopeless

 

[Peter B]

's'easy. Take both, the bait''ll just be a bit smellier and more effective by not being kept cold or frozen, whereas warm beer is not nice at all.

 

[BruceK]

Seems to come down to whether the bait gets loaded, or you get loaded, or both.

 

[Gdavid]

I assume this is due to a lack of refrigerated space if so bring your favorite bourbon or rum and drink it neat in lieu of the beer. I am keeping you in my thoughts and prayers in case this isn't a hypothetical question.

 

[captwill]

You should always maintain an emergency stash of beer onboard for situations just like this.

 

[Pau Hana]

I'd take the bigger anchor...


(Intentional thread derail )

 

[Giggitoni]

Switch to whiskey.

 

[dimer2]

Where do you plan to put the fish if you catch any? That's where the bait can go as you can't go fishing without beer!

 

[menzies]

Clearly you need a bigger boat.

 

[Crusty Chief]

Clearly a Quandry! Let me sit on the dock and drink several beers in order to come up with a logical solution.

 

[alormaria]

Take the beer. You can use the pop-tops as lures.

 

[dhays]

Take the beer, leave the bait.

Full disclosure, I haven't fished since I was a kid. However, for the most part isn't fishing an excuse to get away from chores at home and drink beer? Kind of like golf but without the annoying walking bits.

 

[High Wire]

Take the bait. Tell someone else to bring the beer.

 

[CraigC]

How empty are the fresh water tanks? Maybe a good thorough washdown could create a solution for you. Beer on tap, on the water, nice!

 

[Toolbuddie]

How empty are the fresh water tanks? Maybe a good thorough washdown could create a solution for you. Beer on tap, on the water, nice!

What he said. Blue ribbon suggestion. I have that old Fallstaff tap handle somewhere........

 

[Carolena]

Let work this through. If you take the bait, you may or may not catch a fish. If you take the beer, you will catch a buzz. Seems like classic bird in the hand. Take the beer and you have a guaranteed catch!

 

[Donsan]

PLEASE - tell us what you did!

 

[FlyWright]

Rest assured this is a hypothetical quandary. I would never own a boat not capable of carrying beer AND bait...and if I did, I'd never admit it in a public forum!

It's sure been entertaining reading your replies, though!

 

[AusCan]

The answer is obvious. It's only a 3 day trip.

It takes an hour or two to catch some baitfish, prawns, squid or cockles for bait.
It takes a couple weeks to brew some beer.

 

[Jim Cooper]

I'm pretty sure this question was on my six pack license quiz. I answered beer and passed the test so it must be so! Drink too much and you won't need bait, you'll have chum.

 

[Ted]

I'm pretty sure this question was on my six pack license quiz. I answered beer and passed the test so it must be so! Drink too much and you won't need bait, you'll have chum.

You need a licence to buy a six pack??
The rumours I heard seemed to indicate you only had to be at least 19.

Ted

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. T. You will notice that Mr. JC is from the sunny state of Florida. I've been there and you can't buy a 2-4 in the stores. Nobody can count past 21 even with their shoes off and their fly open. Just sayin'...

 

[CraigC]

I'm pretty sure this question was on my six pack license quiz. I answered beer and passed the test so it must be so! Drink too much and you won't need bait, you'll have chum.

OMG - I have seen exactly THIS on NOT a 6-pack, but a 28-pax party boat... Those bridge painters were almost wasted by 10am - we had barely even gotten to the grounds. Yeah, lots of chum, and you know what else, those guys caught the most fish!!

I was like... no effing way... Geez!

 

[BruceK]

Seems plenty of us took the bait.
The beer/caught fish refrigeration thing is easy, the beer stock should reduce at the same rate as the fish catch increases,filling the space left by the "now reconstituted" beer.