Virtual fishing

I was googling around for fly fishing stuff and stumbled upon a fly fishing game. Check this out: http://www.flysim.com/flysim/flysim_download.html.

I tried the game for a couple of times and it was kind of funny. You really can't learn much of fly fishing from it, but you can easily waste a couple of hours trying to make a decent cast. It was very challenging with the IBM laptops integrated "nipple" mouse and a bit easier with a normal mouse (I imagine it's totally impossible with the touch pad type of mouse most laptops have).
And it is somewhat thrilling when a fish actually does catch :)
But at least I can't get kicks out of it for more than couple of times.

There is also a fishing game for mobile phones coming from Nokia later this year called Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep. I had a chance to try it out at the Nokia launch event in London late August (http://www.nokia.com/press/goplay). It was an interesting experience and I'm sure I'll be playing that and it will be my favorite waste of time when mobile for some time. There's a nice review of the game here.

If I come across any other interesting fishing games I'll post about those in this blog.