PLAYING A FISH - This is the most pleasand and exciting portion of anIAN MITCHELL
angler's recreation. Contest and struggle have now begun. If you fail, you
lose the object you have been carefully seeking for, and perhaps line and
flies you have cherished for the fatal remembrances attached to them. The
fish that struggles so savagely to do them damage, you see with exultation
tired to death, or with chagrin you see him swim away and sink to the bottom
of the current with them. The blood in this tussle is called from the
interior to the surface of the body and sent through the vessels with
exhilarating rapidity, and you feel a temporary access of the most pleasant
sort off intoxication, viz., that which attacks you at a sporting crisis.
Playing a fish is the great crisis of angling. You're full of hope, full of fear,
full of doubt. If he is hooked firmly, if your tackle does not fail you, if
he does not get off your line, if flies foul, if, if, if - ah the pleasant
anxiety implied by those ifs!
We'll be heading out to NM early in the morning. Ya'll take care. See you in a week and let you know how those Northern New Mexico trout were biting.
Best,
JIMMY
I FISH BECAUSE I MUST !
" BIGTROUTMAN"
But, more importantly, I fish because
Woodway, TX
my Dad taught me!
Scout Exec. BSA,(Ret.) - Outdoor Writer, TOWA, GRTU, FFF
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