Fishing
Give Up Golf and Take Up Fishing!!
Really. It would do your heart good, your patience wonders, and remove any sort of intolerance you may have. Well, I'm not too sure about the heart, 'specially when you hook into a big one. The patience part might be a bit taxing, when you're searching for that particular honey hole. And the intolerance? Hm, yeah, when you're surrounded by beer drinking yahoos trolling for whatever they think is out there... tolerance does not come easy there.
Still, Fishing is a way of life that cannot be matched in any way that I know of. (Yeah, yeah, all you Recovery folk can just shush now, y'hear? Go read my Recovery pages, why doncha?!) Fishing is my one true escape from the drudgery of life, my way to get out and just be. It doesn't matter too much to this ol' boy whether he catches anything or not. (hehe, ain't you ever heard that fisherfolk are liars??)
The drop box below lists the fish that I like to fish for, starting with my favorites and down on to those that I'd like to hunt but never really get an opportunity. My descriptions and stories are simply that, mine. I am not an expert in this craft, nor do I claim great knowledge about any species of fish. I simply am what I am. A fisherman, in the masculine since, well... I'm a guy, eh.
Have some fun rummaging around here. During my researches for the production of these fishy pages, I discovered a web site of great information. It covers all (and I mean ALL) of the different varieties of fish found in the Ottawa, or National Capitol, Region. From abundant fish like the Rock Bass to the more obscure and rare Cutthroat Trout, this site gives data on fish descriptions, locales, breeding habits, images, and pretty well anything else you could possibly want to know about local Ottawa fish. Heck, Goldfish even get a mention. There's also the odd note on how to angle for some of them!
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- Disillusionment
Fishing. I am seriously thinking about giving the exercise up. Too much of a bother to get my gear together and ride the darned bus to get where I want to go. And a major pain in the knee to ride my bike there (even tho' I got a new bike to try that route). Going thru the wherewithall to just get out fishing takes too fraking much of the enjoyment out of it, especially knowing that I need to go thru it all again to get home. sigh... So, take all the regalling I said on the left about fishing with a grain of salt.
I bought a cheapeedo 1 person tent with the thought of biking to a spot on the Ottawa River and doing a camp / waterwalk fishing expedition. Tried to do that and failed miserably. The hot weather is now gone. Two lousy fish outings this year. They get less and less as time goes by. Nope, for all my blahblahblah about fishing, my heart and desire just isn't in it anymore. Sigh.... I might just be getting old.
