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When I was young, I was absolutely fascinated by my dad fishing tackle box. It appeared to me that he had the most splendid and wide-ranging fishing supplies imaginable. With his fishing tackle he could trick any fish there was, or so I thought. He had many different flies and lures, most of them hand-tied and custom created by him. Except for the basics like fishing line, no one bought their own fishing supply equipment in those days. Every good fisherman made their own. It wasn't just a matter of quality, but of pride.
It appears like, with the fast evolution of fishing supplies, a lot of the sport has been taken out of it these days. I spent some time on a fishing trip with a friend, a fairly wealthy person who owns his own motor yacht. He actually has a GPS fishfinder, a weather radar gear, and many other different type of fancy equipment to find the schools of fish. Finding fish with him is not an art anymore. It is not due to instincts, of sport or luck. It is just due to cold hard science - following the manual and letting the technology do that work. To me, this takes all the fun out of it.
I dicussed this with him, and he said it was just a matter of him owning more fancy fishing supplies than my dad did. He said that had they sold GPS fishfinders in fly fishing shops in my father's day, everybody would have bought them. They wouldn't have spend time with hand tying their own fishing lures if they could right away identify where to get the fish. I see things differently, however.
The opportunity to commune with nature, in my mind, is what my father loved so much about fishing. Yes he was out there to catch fish, but in the course he had to discern everything about a stretch of river. He had to know every wave and what it signified, when the fish came out, how precisely to land the line, and which fishing equipment to utilise in which season. It was a thinking activity that involved his whole mind. In order for him to succeed at it, everything had to be done perfectly. It wasn't just a matter of watching the radar and dropping a line.
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