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Beths gone fishing!
Do you like fishing? I do. I like the restfulness of it. I think the general peace and quiet of dangling a line in the water and waiting for something to bite, is an experience I would do more often if time would allow.
Fishing has been classed as a sport but you dont need a team to play, you can change the rules if you want and you can play it at any time of day or night.
Fishing from a boat with a whole lot of gizmos to tell you exactly where the fish are, make it pretty easy to catch something, but I’m not sure that that is sporting.
Throwing a line into the surf or out into a river is definitely more sporting as far as the fish are concerned but more a game of chance for the fisherperson.
Basically fishing is about relaxation, nervous, twitchy, impatient people need not apply.
I asked a few people their opinion of fishing. Most of their answers ranged from, …Yeah bring it on,… to…I’d rather suck lemons!
Its odd how there isnt too much middle ground. You dont find too many people saying they sometimes like to go fishing. When I asked a friend her feelings on fishing she said, Id rather read a book.
Well I like to read too and I reckon I could probably combine the two things if I wanted. Set up a chair, throw out the line, sit down and pick up a book. How much more relaxing can you get?
And if you really don’t care whether you catch anything or not, dont put any bait on the hook.
Is there anything out there to catch?
I’m no expert but I think there is. I tell myself there is a whopper out there and its waiting for me to put something succulent in front of its nose.
Mind you I usually feed the babies, the tiddlers and the microscopics but theyve got to eat too, how else are they ever gonna grow up if we dont feed them?
When you think about it, fishing is environmentally friendly if you only take the right size and not too many, and if you dont destroy anything to get to your fishing spot.
Its a non polluting activity if you take all your garbage, plastics and other assorted waste with you when you leave.
Its energy efficient unless the Taylor are running otherwise it doesnt take a lot out of a person.
It doesnt globally warm us or put holes in our ozone. So, it seems to me, fishing is the ultimate care for our planet pastime.
And speaking of passing time, lets get back to the relaxing aspects of fishing.
This is the time when everything else can pass you by. Its just you, the line and the water. Catching a fish isn’t always what you’re looking for, its the time allowed for doing nothing.
There are people …and lots of them who dont know how to relax, how to do some nothing.
There are those, and I think the number is growing who dont even know how to wind down. Their day starts and ends by the clock, they rush and push themselves and others to achieve, achieve, achieve. And what do they really have at the end of it all? A few fancy nick nacks they have to upgrade every little while and huge bills. Just think if they stopped worrying about having, and spent some time …even several hours doing nothing, relaxing, maybe fishing.
Think how energised they would feel and then how much better they could achieve.
So, fishing is a meditation and a yoga workout as well. Its new age, its old age, it is for every age.
Fishing is a wondrous thing. Its as exciting or as restful as you want to make it. You can do it from the beach or riverbank, a canoe through to a luxury yacht, …in still water …or off the sea wall into a smash up if you fall off the rock face.
So many ways and means. I think its time I went fishing. Got my rod, got bait and Im outta here. See ya!
Beth
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