This One Is For LSP

LSP is an avid fisherman, and encourages me to fish. So far, I’ve resisted. A local pond, well stocked I’m told, is being drained so as to be fixed for erosion issues. Hence, there is no limit and very few restrictions for fishing this location.

My former employer is a dedicated fisherman and quite good. Seems he and a friend fished this pond on got skunked.

My problem with fishing is twofold. First, I’m not a big eater of fish. Second, my youth spent as a subsistent hunter. I fished the Yampa River for food. What I caught was soon on our table. The idea of catch and release makes no sense to me.

Intellectually, I can understand the appeal of fishing that draws people into the practice. It just doesn’t pull my personal chain.

Sitting in my storage shed is a well equipped tackle box (bought at a yard sale for pennies on the dollar value of the contents) and an expensive rod and reel that I paid (gasp) retail for one moment of weakness at Cabella’s.

Will the tackle box and rod/reel make it to one of my vehicles? Maybe, if I bored enough.

As always, YMMV.