05-06-2004, 01:56 PM
[cool][blue][size 1]Hey, man, fishing is fishing. The best time to go fishing is whenever you can get away. [/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]We would all like to be able to take off on two week non-stop fishing trips to exotic places. But, the reality is that a high percentage of the fishing most of us do is just a quick getaway now and then. It's funny though, that over the years some of my most memorable trips...or at least single memorable incidents...have been on those quick "brain broom" shots on waters close enough to make it worthwhile for a couple hours fishing.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]When I was in the real estate business, selling property and homes in the Sierra "foothills" above Sacramento, we had a list of office "rules". One of those was that all agents had to keep fishing tackle in their vehicle at all times, and that any new body of water we encountered on our drives in the hills had to be fully "investigated". We each found and shared some fun little "trickle cricks" and small ponds that made it possible for us to stop before, during or after office hours for a few therapeutic casts. Amazing what some fishing will do to restore reality.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]It do sound like you have a full schedule. I hope you can be creative enough to squeeze out some quality time on the water, and that the fishies cooperate too. If a fisherman is not too much of a purist, it is amazing the amount of fun you can have just playing with some carp, sunfish or other "second class" denizens of urban lakes and park ponds. At least you are doing something fishy.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]We would all like to be able to take off on two week non-stop fishing trips to exotic places. But, the reality is that a high percentage of the fishing most of us do is just a quick getaway now and then. It's funny though, that over the years some of my most memorable trips...or at least single memorable incidents...have been on those quick "brain broom" shots on waters close enough to make it worthwhile for a couple hours fishing.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]When I was in the real estate business, selling property and homes in the Sierra "foothills" above Sacramento, we had a list of office "rules". One of those was that all agents had to keep fishing tackle in their vehicle at all times, and that any new body of water we encountered on our drives in the hills had to be fully "investigated". We each found and shared some fun little "trickle cricks" and small ponds that made it possible for us to stop before, during or after office hours for a few therapeutic casts. Amazing what some fishing will do to restore reality.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]It do sound like you have a full schedule. I hope you can be creative enough to squeeze out some quality time on the water, and that the fishies cooperate too. If a fisherman is not too much of a purist, it is amazing the amount of fun you can have just playing with some carp, sunfish or other "second class" denizens of urban lakes and park ponds. At least you are doing something fishy.[/size][/#0000ff]
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