Thin Crust Tavern CutI still have my father's old tackle box just as he left it the last time he went fishing nearly a half century ago. I take it down from the pantry shelf & open it every few years for sentimental reasons. This is now done as a private observance, because in the past, I've shown it to collectors who all said it was a damn shame that the potentially valuable old lures weren't in mint condition in their original boxes but had actually been *fished*.
-John Girach
I've always been a sucker for all the paraphernalia that bogs down the sport. Even as a boy the fishermen I admired weren't necessarily the ones who caught the most fish but the ones with the biggest and best stocked tackle boxes-tray after tray of brightly colored plugs and stylized scales or frog spots and the blankly staring eyes of cartoon characters.
-John Girach
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
Fishing Line
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
