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When I was a little boy, I was really fascinated by my father fishing tackle box. It appeared to me that he had the most magnificent and wide-ranging fishing...

When I was a little boy, I was really fascinated by my father fishing tackle box. It appeared to me that he had the most magnificent and wide-ranging fishing supplies imaginable. He could trick any fish there was with his fishing tackle, or so I thought. He had many different flies and lures, most of them custom and hand-tied made by him. Except for the basics like fishing line, no one bought their own fishing supply equipment in those days. If you were a good fisherman, you made your own. It was a matter of pride as well as a matter of quality.

It appears like, with the rapid advance of fishing equipments, a lot of the sport has been taken out of lately. I went on a fishing trip with a good friend of mine, a fairly wealthy mal who owns his own motor yacht. He actually has a weather radar gear, a GPS fishfinder, and a lot of type of fancy equipment to find the schools of fish. Finding fish with him isn't an art anymore. t is not a matter of instincts, of sport or luck. It is just a matter of cold hard science - following the manual and letting the technology do the rest. For me, this is taking all the fun out of it.

I dicussed this with him, and he said it was just a matter of him owning more fancy fishing supplies than my dad had. He claimed that had they sold GPS fishfinders in fly fishing shops in my father's day, everybody would have purchased them. They wouldn't have lost time with hand tying their own fishing lures if they could at once identify where to get the fish. I see things differently, however.

In my mind, what my father loved so much about fishing is the opportunity to commune with nature. Yes he was out there to catch fish, but in the course he had to discern everything about a stretch of river. He had to know every ondulation and what it signified, what time of day the fish came out, how precisely to land the line, and which fishing supplies to utilise in which season. It was a thinking activity that involved his whole mind. In order for him to succeed at it, everything had to be done perfectly. It wasn't simply a matter of watching the radar and dropping a line.


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