01-04-2006, 07:03 PM
This post shows why fishing is so great. You can fish to relax, to enjoy the outdoors, to be with others, to let your mind wander while completely alone, to travel to beautiful places, to eat the things you catch, and for any other reason you want!
You can fish for the physical and/or mental stimulation, for the challenge, for competition, for only just to see what happens, just to satisfy a curiosity. No two days are ever exactly the same. Stuff happens that wouldn't have happend without going fishing. It doesn't matter how you do it. (except poachers and snaggers, but this isn't the time)
Bait, flies, jigs, lures, casting, trolling, still fishing, ice fishing. It all counts if that's your fancy. Besides, who wants every fisherman in the country doing exactly what you like to do, and doing it on your favorite body of water? Diversity keeps the sport alive.
Some elitists knock stocker rainbows, for example. Do you want all the stocker rainbow fishermen sitting in your favorite walleye hole, wading through your favorite trout stream, parked on your favorite lake trout hump, or frothing up your favorite pond? Thankfully we all have different interests, and different reasons to go fishing.
You can become so obsessed that it interferes with most other aspects of life. You can make fishing more important than life or death itself. In my case, you can make it your ENTIRE little pitiful life. Pick your poison. Like any addiction, moderation is best, although I haven't seemed to be able follow that advice. I went wrong somewhere, and there seems to be no going back!
While I've taken it to the extreme, I do remember how it started, with a salmon egg in a creek, with a worm on a pond. I just didn't know how to slow it down!
In a week I'll find myself drifting live bait into schools of unsuspecting, rolling and feeding tarpon in the shadow of Miami Beach. Is that too easy? You bet, and I can't wait! When I get tired of that, I'll make it more challenging and pick up a jig or a fly and catch some that way too! If the tarpon get moody, I'll dunk some bait on the bottom and pull on a big shark or two.
Diversity . . . We have to have it.
Jim
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You can fish for the physical and/or mental stimulation, for the challenge, for competition, for only just to see what happens, just to satisfy a curiosity. No two days are ever exactly the same. Stuff happens that wouldn't have happend without going fishing. It doesn't matter how you do it. (except poachers and snaggers, but this isn't the time)
Bait, flies, jigs, lures, casting, trolling, still fishing, ice fishing. It all counts if that's your fancy. Besides, who wants every fisherman in the country doing exactly what you like to do, and doing it on your favorite body of water? Diversity keeps the sport alive.
Some elitists knock stocker rainbows, for example. Do you want all the stocker rainbow fishermen sitting in your favorite walleye hole, wading through your favorite trout stream, parked on your favorite lake trout hump, or frothing up your favorite pond? Thankfully we all have different interests, and different reasons to go fishing.
You can become so obsessed that it interferes with most other aspects of life. You can make fishing more important than life or death itself. In my case, you can make it your ENTIRE little pitiful life. Pick your poison. Like any addiction, moderation is best, although I haven't seemed to be able follow that advice. I went wrong somewhere, and there seems to be no going back!
While I've taken it to the extreme, I do remember how it started, with a salmon egg in a creek, with a worm on a pond. I just didn't know how to slow it down!
In a week I'll find myself drifting live bait into schools of unsuspecting, rolling and feeding tarpon in the shadow of Miami Beach. Is that too easy? You bet, and I can't wait! When I get tired of that, I'll make it more challenging and pick up a jig or a fly and catch some that way too! If the tarpon get moody, I'll dunk some bait on the bottom and pull on a big shark or two.
Diversity . . . We have to have it.
Jim
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