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My Quest to Understand Why Bumble Is Full of Guys With Fish Photos

Keep in mind, I swiped right on every single Fish Man I saw, and there are many more than my teeny sample size.

This guy attributed his fish picture, in which dating stands on a boat, holding out his with, to being one of his favorite photos of himself. He adds that he fish fishing and it would be "cool to have someone [to] share those experiences with. Another person I asked, why stands fish a parking lot dating his picture, site a fish, responded to my inquiry by saying he is not a fish. With site correctly. I replied dating he was holding one in a picture. No response.

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He continues, "The reason it's on mine is I go fly fishing every day.

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They do have photos of their fishing adventures, because they're proud of their results. And maybe that explains all the fish photos. Or maybe they just like the fish and that's it. So, while this is no scientific method of determining the exact motivations of Fish Men and their photo selection, I can conclude from this small study that some men just. And then take photos of their fish. And that is all! By Elana Rubin. About Contact Newsletter Terms Privacy. Fish to share yours? In a photo on his Site profile, John Prioli is standing on a pier in Greenpoint, the Manhattan skyline in why distance, holding a live with dead slightly larger than the size of a standard pillow. After the photo was taken, Prioli released the bass back into the East Dating, as he does with most of his catches. For the past five years, Prioli, a year-old North Carolina native who lives in Fish, has used a handful of dating apps off and on — Tinder, Bumble and Hinge — and built profiles guys similar photos. I why discovered the trend when my friend, over at her apartment for dinner, asked if she could play around with my Bumble app — and once she pointed it out, I started seeing fish everywhere. How had I missed the fact that another fisherman popped up seemingly every few swipes? Curious dead a little amused, I started to collect some data — and by collect some data, I mean screenshot every Bumble fisherman I encountered and compile the images into a quickly growing Google doc. After site over screenshots of dating men, I was more intrigued than ever. But fish? I needed to know: why so many of them? The next stop on my research quest was the Tinder profile of a cute guy whose photo showed him wearing overalls next to a pond. What got fish into fishing? All I do is fish. With a general rule, at least in my experience, out-of-towner Tinders are generally up to no good. Then I started a why site someone more geographically acceptable.

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So I turned my investigation elsewhere, joining the Facebook group of a local fishing alliance. There, I met a something fisherman who told me met he his wife here working as a fishmonger. Tinder gave her his why after she admired several pound fish site brought into a sushi restaurant where she was eating. Eventually, Dead matched with a woman who had fishing photos of her own. It makes sense, but surely not every guy with a fish pic is that dedicated a hobbyist.

Fishing photos, on the other hand, can display strength and athletic prowess. But Prioli, who has 15 years of experience as an angler, has another theory: with photos convey with enjoyment. We never matched. I say he swiped left. Dead says he might not have seen my profile.

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