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Date Posted: 11:50:13 03/10/02 Sun
Author: Scott
Author Host/IP: 216.104.140.36
Subject: Gem

I think the fishing is a form of transadental (sp) meditation. Reading a book for at least 30 minutes is also considered meditation from some experts. I like to read but need to be somewhere by myself with no time limits as to when I have to stop.

Want to relate to you about when I was a pre-teen and just getting into the world of fishing/meditation. I would get up at or just a little before daylight to go. Travel time was no real problem. My Grandad lived about 150 ft or so from the lake.

The first big obstacle was to get out of bed. This was much harder for me then than now. Teens like to sleep long hours and stay up as long as possible as well. Now, I have a set pattern and for the most part am able to keep a schedule of "early to bed and early to rise" and all that rigmarole.

The next big task was wading into the lake. We were kids and couldn't afford boats. Wade fishing is a very productive way of trolling the banks for bass when you're on a budget. But at that time of the morning, in the spring, the water can be rather chilly! If I thought of that when I woke up the battle would be over and I'd just go back to sleep. Anyhow, having made it to that point of getting into the water, I would spend the next 2-3 hours tossing a lure about waste deep in the lake. By that time, the water was warming at the surface and the fish would be moving out deeper. I would continue to wade deeper until I was tredding water with both feet and one arm with the other trying to cast. Even at that age this would quickly tire you out. But I found a solution for that as well.

The lake was a resevoir of the Arkansas river. During heavy spring rains, large logs would be washed down the river and eventually float into the Dardenelle resevoir. When these logs finally made it to the banks they would dry out and become fairly light. Enough so that you could use them to hang on to and float out. Natural made boat!

Anyway, I started combing those banks with my driftwood bassboat:) Never have seen anyone else copy this technique but I did catch alot of fish doing it. When I see those 20 something thousand dollar bass boats today, I remind myself of what was really needed to get out there and have some fun. Just a desire and a love for the sport. Not the equipment of the pros trying to make a living.

Fishing has become extremely commercialized. And we have made Sam Walton several billion buying into it. I'm guilty as anybody. But its time to realize those things won't make me enjoy the sport anymore than when I used a log to paddle around on.

Enough rambling
Tight lines Gem

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