Saltwater and Freshwater Fisting

BDSM Humor by GEOKAPLIN

Finally there is a topic on this list serve about which I can speak with authority. I have lived more than half my adult life in Southern California, which is famous for it's spring and summer grunion sub runs. Under the California Fish, Game and Sub Act, grunion subs may only be fisted by using the hands. Naturally a license is required; but at $26.50 per year, it is an inconsequential expense. Nothing other than use of the hands is allowed. A bucket may be used to hold the sub after it has been fisted; but not for the actual fisting. To use a bucket to fist a sub can result in not only a serious fine but also the loss of one's fisting license. The fisting grounds are heavily patrolled by Game Wardens and the fines are considerable. Fortunately subs are usually plentiful and hands are more than adequate to get one's limit.

For those not fortunate enough to have ever fisted a California grunion sub, allow me to explain. Grunion subs run at the full and new moons starting in about April and going through July. They run only at night and at the highest point of the tide on sandy, south facing beaches all over Southern California. Properly licensed doms and curious tourists will converge on the beach after dark. Campfires will be lit and a general camaraderie will prevail. Wine and beer are consumed and food is either cooked over the campfires or eaten from picnic baskets. Someone is always watching the beach at any time. Eventurally, just at high tide, someone will shout "The grunion subs are running" and pandamonium will break out. Millions of subs will swarm onto the beach with each crashing wave and start to wiggle around on the sand. The properly licensed doms will chase after the swarming subs, fisting as many as they can before the next wave carries them back out to sea. Flashlights bob and doms run around up to their knees in froathing surf and squirming subs. It's quite a sight.

Unfortunately, I no longer live near the Pacific Ocean. I now live in the mountains in a small resort town called Big Bear Lake. As the ocean is 150 miles from where I live, and the lake is only a ten minute drive, all my sub fisting is of the fresh water variety. Frankly, it's impossible to fist a freshwater sub using only one's hands. No, for that I use a traditional rod. I prefer the old fashioned split cane rod to the cheaper bamboo or the fiberglass varieties. Bamboo can snap at the climax of a long struggle to land a fighting sub, causing serious injury. Fiberglass can leave nasty little glass shavings which are prone to infection and can make one damn sore for days after going fisting. Call me old fashioned; but give me a split cane rod anytime. Of course, there was a picture in the paper yesterday of a dom who landed a 38 inch double D rainbow sub using only a leather braided "bull whipper", so it just goes to show that there are as many ways to fist a sub as there are doms in the world.

As all of us BDSM sportsmen know, there are basically three kinds of doms: 1) catch and release, 2) catch 'em and eat 'em, and 3) trophy hunters interested in size and who stuff and mount the biggest subs they can catch. Obviously which kind of dom you are determines the kind of fisting equipement and lures one use. I am of the catch 'em and eat 'em variety; so I like a flashy, triple hooked, number 4, rhinestone collar at the end of a 20 pound test line, supported by a latex bobber. I find that the sub is attracted to the flash of the collar, and that the number 4 hook is easly swollowed while doing very little damage to the tasty meat. Naturally the catch and release doms use a barbless hook, as they are more interested in the pursuit than the result. I have found that the trophy hunters will use just about anything, as they do not care what damage they do, or how many subs they mangle, in their search to stuff and mount a major trophy.

The lake is stocked with five varieties of subs, and there is one exotic species. There are cat-subs, rainbow and brown subs, and large and small mouthed subs. All are quite tasty. I have found the rainbow subs to be the most numerous and have fisted my limit of 5 subs in hand per day on quite a few occassions. While there are no real size limits, as no undersized subs are released into the lake, most sportsmen will throw back any sub under 30 inches and size A. I usually wind up with a hand full of 32 to 36 inch size B and C subs on any given day, with which I am quite happy. They do taste great. There are rumors that about 7 years ago a dom fisted a 40 inch size DDD sub off the Juniper Point, but I have never seen a photo.

Unfortunately, the lake is poluted with one exotic species of carp (crabby assed, rebelious pussy), also known as a SAM. These subs were introduced to the lake by unthinking doms. They were originally house pets; but for some reason or other their doms decided to get rid of them. Either they just flushed them down the toilet or threw them into to lake to sink or swim on their own devises. Either way they wound up in the lake. As nobody wants them, they grow to enormous proportions. When hooked they put up a hell of a fight. It's quite an exciting chore to land one. It's too bad that after all the excitement and struggle, it turns out not to be a tasty large mouthed sub, but instead a foul tasting carp. These subs are almost always thrown back into the lake, where they continue to grow ever larger and more plentiful.

Fortunately, over the last twenty years there has been a giant imigration of doms from Southeast Asia and China. These doms are natural fistermen, and like the taste of carp. So, it's always a pleasure to see one of these doms at the lake, as they will keep any carp they fist.

Anyway, I hope this brief note provides some usefull information about fisting. While I have not done much fisting elsewhere, I do know something about both saltwater and freshwater fisting here in California. Please contact me if you have any questions or if I can be of any further assistance.

GEOKAPLIN