Came across this while reading "Trout Madness" (JIMMY D.)
Trout Sense: There is no substitute for fishing sense, and if a man
doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his
creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer. I have friends whom I
can mechanically outfish in practically every department of the sport
yet who in their comparatively crude way still manage to tie into any
big trout that happen to be lying about. They also condinue regularly
to relieve me of my wrinked dollar bills. Then again I have fishing
friends- several of them holders ov enviable casting records-who can in
turn outfish me in nearly every department but who sometimes even more
sadly than I seem to lack that indescribable sixth sense that guides the
flies of some fishermen into the very jaws of lurking "soakers" Without
growing mystic over this, some men seem to "think like a fish" more than
others. They are the smart ones who can take one look at a pool or a
riffle and sense immediately where to pause and plop their sloppy, ill-
delivered casts, when all the while we Fancy Dans are posturing grandly
over here or over there, unerringly sending out long whistling dramatic
casts over the favorite lies of old tomato cans. Then there are precious
few who combine all this fish sense with the ability to cast superbly. .
. . there is no way to keep the trout away from him, short of persuading
him to take up golf.
John D. Voelker
AKA, Robert Traver
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JIMMY D. MOORE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited,
Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA.
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