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People since time began have struggled with fishing. So I’m following in a long line of anglers and fisherman who get totally caught up in the fish that’s in fishing.

-Psalm 104- vs.25,26…”there is the ocean, large and wide where countless creatures live large and small alike ,the ships sail on it and in it plays leviathan that sea monster which you made.” –“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.” ~Washington Irving

I hope I never catch that fish, the one that answers it all. The one that leaves me completely satisfied. That’s a fish I don’t want.-“I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. “ ~Robert Altman

I have flown twice the speed of sound in a jet fighter. The oxygen mask felt like a wind storm in my face. The G-suit was inflating and compacting me to protect my innards from exploding. Rather ironic. Water displaced at the wing tips, created rain from the aircraft so supersonic, and my body was not. It has cured me forever, of the need for speed.

So I’m not looking for a cure from, that fish. Big fighters or gorgeous brook trout, tasty and the ones that got away, I’ll keep catching those fish. The longest fish fight possible is okay. Just don’t let me hook into Captain Ahab’s, Moby Dick. That fish ruined his day. I do not want that kind of fishing experience.-“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” ~Henry David Thoreau

Mr. Hemmingway’s “old man and the sea”. I’m never quite certain if that fish was an epic fish, but the story, it exhausts me. He leaves no doubt that it was his prize fish and days of arduous toil to keep his catch, that’s not a fish I’m after either.-“There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.” ~Author Unknown

Jonah and the whale is where the fish had the business end of the deal and since I like fishing I’m going to try and spend my days on course in the boat and not in the belly so to speak. –“It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.” ~John Steinbeck

History is replete with Leviathan’s terrorizing the open seas and oceans. Loch Ness on the end of your ultra light, probably not a pretty picture. But the fish I want to catch the least is my last fish. See I’m an angler addict. I do the angling but fishing’s caught me good. I can feel me struggle against the hook. Should I have skipped school, called in sick to work, added an extra day to my extended vacation and say my truck broke down? Im swimming along and then look up to see a minnow dangling and I race to swallow the bait every single time. The bait I continually swallow is the next fishing trip. –“Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.” ~Author Unknown

My fishing has lots of bait, barbed and barb-less hooks. Im just having trouble getting the treble hook out of my head. And finally- “may the holes in your net be no bigger than the fish you catch”~ an Irish blessing

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