Fishing in clear water

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The water was perfect for swimming and tourists wanting a postcard picture but when fishing it’s better if things are a bit imperfect.  Me and the boys caught 40 or so of three or four different species over the three days.  The best part was them being there and them putting up with my obsession.  But there had been no real satisfaction.  Even after we had loaded the cart with all the gear and were making the last long walk toward the car I noticed some activity toward the shallows.  The boy sighed as I grabbed my rod and reel again.  He sat down on a bench and waited and looked at his phone.  Little did he know that I had been waiting for three days for this.  It’s part of fishing and life that you have to have a hook in the water when the fish are there.  The deal is that you get no prior notice so all you can do is keep casting.  The promise is that if you keep casting you WILL catch a fish.  That is life.  So today take hope and keep casting.  What you are fishing for will be by that way.  If you don’t give up you will be there casting when it comes.

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Last fish in the last minutes of the three days fishing.  I let him go.  27 inches is the legal limit and he was thirty+.  Very Groovy!

19 thoughts on “Fishing in clear water

  1. Love your “philosophy about life and fishing.” 😀 I just read it to Drollery. He was duly impressed with the fish! (Btw, if you have a picture that won’t right itself when you paste it in, you can go to picmonkey.com, click edit and choose your picture, then tell it to rotate it. Resave it and you should be good to go for posting. Works slick as snot on a door knob. 😉 )

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