The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Fran]

To go "fishing" with Ennis, Jack would drive his pickup in a northwesterly direction for fourteen hours or so.

[Meryl]

Jack and Ennis chose to see each other on occasional fishin' trips rather than commit to living together and risk being viewed as outcasts by society.

=compliment=Paul
Nice "I"

[southendmd]

Piscatorially speaking, there was very little, if any, fishing going on during these fishing trips.

{def: pertaining to fish}

=aside= Meryl
Thanks, I'm off the hook.

[Fran]

Jack and Ennis attempt to relive their idyllic summer on Brokeback Mountain with periodic "fishing" trips.

[Toast]

Jack and Ennis were lucky that neither of their spouses seemed interested in mountainous fishing trips.

[Meryl]

Ennis always took his creel case and fishing pole along on his trips with Jack as a trusty alibi for his real recreational activities.

[southendmd]

Jack and Ennis went on many a fishing trip, but those waters remained unfished.

[Fran]

 Jack verbalizes his hopes for the future:

"What if you and me had a little ranch together somewhere... a little cow-and-calf operation?  It'd be a sweet life."

[Toast]

Jack and Ennis remained wanderers, avoiding the sweet life because of Ennis's fears.

[southendmd]

On their last fishing trip, Ennis collapses, and Jack doesn't know if he is enraged or in xtremis.

{def:  near death}