Years ago, I was buying a non-resident fishing license online when my son called to tell me he was moving to Washington State. Totally unexpected.
Weeks later, back in the Midwest, a DNR guy asked how fishing was (great) & could he see my license (yes). Hmm, didn't have it with me. DNR guy says he can see on his phone I bought previous years not that year.
$225 later I was reminded to stay focused and always have a current license.
Darren is studying for a degree in psychiatry-looking to "do something with his life" as my father would say-but the summer job would be good training. Guides get used to seeing raw emotions and exposed insecurities. And really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good guide can do is write prescriptions.
-John Girach
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It's a good time to check your boat batteries. Check the charge level and hook up the appropriate charger.
I connect my deep cycle battery within minutes of getting the boat in the garage or docked. It's always ready to go.
(Fishermen) probably, are *liars*, but if we make the good stuff better than it really is, we also make the bad stuff worse, and we believe that balances out to be something very much like the truth.
-John Girach
Age doesn't neccesarily bring wisdom, but you do build up a background of useful experience.
-John Gierach
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I tried ice fishing and didn't like it. Way too difficult to cast 100' into a little hole in the ice.
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I try to be mindful of my motivation when I go off alone. I mean if you are weary, sick but still ambulatory, fed up, overworked, heartbroken, need to think things over or stop thinking things over for awhile, you should definitely go fishing, and you should probably go alone so you don't bother anyone. But then fishing like most other simple human pleasures, is better done out of love, than when used as a painkiller.
-John Gierach
It's not likely for a solitary trip to end in a great epiphany or anything, it's just that I think the way when you fish alone is the way you really fish: your own personal style, uninfluenced by crowds, guides, or friends, and it's interesting to plug back into that now and again. Solitude is educational and it can be satisfying. For instance, I have lived half my adult life by myself and found myself to be decent company.
-John Gierach
Sometimes the wind was so strong it was a small victory just to make a decent cast without hooking yourself, and when it was a long time between strikes you could almost begin to wonder if it was worth the trouble. Almost but not quite. Lots of things can happen while you are in a fisherman's trance, but the day you actually begin to wonder why you do this is the day you might as well stay home sell your tackle and buy a bigger TV.
-John Gierach
Where should I cast next?
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