04-09-2014, 08:55 PM
I consider myself a hopeful realist. Life has taught me to expect disappointment, but I have never seem to learn my lesson for long. . [
] It's the up side of having adult ADD.
Like the bumper sticker says, " It's no use being pessimistic because it'll never work anyway."
If I could learn to get excited about catching small trout, or learn a bit more about walleye, this time of the year wouldn't be so full of painful but giddy anticipation. It's like waiting for Christmas but nobody will tell you exactly how many days are left!
But what usually happens, like last year, is that one fine day I catch a nice bluegill right away off the dock, then a other, then a 15" largemouth on the tiny jig, and we're off, and the day ends with 25 fish mixed bag of almost every species. [cool]
And I love when it happens to everybody, and the kids are all holding up fish and the dads that don't fish much are pulling em out, and a casual fisherman pulls iut a "huge" (cookie cutter) catfish etc...
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] It's the up side of having adult ADD. Like the bumper sticker says, " It's no use being pessimistic because it'll never work anyway."
If I could learn to get excited about catching small trout, or learn a bit more about walleye, this time of the year wouldn't be so full of painful but giddy anticipation. It's like waiting for Christmas but nobody will tell you exactly how many days are left!
But what usually happens, like last year, is that one fine day I catch a nice bluegill right away off the dock, then a other, then a 15" largemouth on the tiny jig, and we're off, and the day ends with 25 fish mixed bag of almost every species. [cool]
And I love when it happens to everybody, and the kids are all holding up fish and the dads that don't fish much are pulling em out, and a casual fisherman pulls iut a "huge" (cookie cutter) catfish etc...
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