Seize the moment
- TheMaverick
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Seize the moment
In fishing as in our everyday lives,
I’ve learned that positive results are achieved by one’s careful preparation, willingness and drive to strive.
Then a little something kicks in,
An equilibrium between our surroundings and those said positive attributes,
A cultivated poise,
But to us, anglers, a graceful sweeping gesture with aerobatic ramifications.
A self-contradicting thought suddenly occurs,
That it wasn’t at all ours to demand or expect,
That this moment is but a gift,
And that if catching a fish is a gift,
Then so too is catching the last ray of light streaming the peak of the tallest pine casting our shadow on a mirror like surface.
Transfixed by the very odd chance of being able to enjoy this very moment,
In the end admitting that it wouldn’t of mattered if you had caught a fish,
So long as you’re indebted by this view, the crackling sounds and the smells of an old boat house.
Anglers are but grateful beggars,
We beg for the never ending hour glass and lady luck to be on our side,
Nothing more,
Nothing less.
I’ve learned that positive results are achieved by one’s careful preparation, willingness and drive to strive.
Then a little something kicks in,
An equilibrium between our surroundings and those said positive attributes,
A cultivated poise,
But to us, anglers, a graceful sweeping gesture with aerobatic ramifications.
A self-contradicting thought suddenly occurs,
That it wasn’t at all ours to demand or expect,
That this moment is but a gift,
And that if catching a fish is a gift,
Then so too is catching the last ray of light streaming the peak of the tallest pine casting our shadow on a mirror like surface.
Transfixed by the very odd chance of being able to enjoy this very moment,
In the end admitting that it wouldn’t of mattered if you had caught a fish,
So long as you’re indebted by this view, the crackling sounds and the smells of an old boat house.
Anglers are but grateful beggars,
We beg for the never ending hour glass and lady luck to be on our side,
Nothing more,
Nothing less.
If fishin ain't your mission, then you can kiss my Bass!
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Re: Seize the moment
Pretty cool! I always knew your dad was the one that catches the fish in team28
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Re: Seize the moment
He's got nothing on me...neither does Edgar Allan Poe for that matter!ShawnD wrote:Pretty cool! I always knew your dad was the one that catches the fish in team28
If fishin ain't your mission, then you can kiss my Bass!
Re: Seize the moment
I just returned from the Lake Placid area....waded a few small streams and the above describes exactly the feeling I had. The thick smell of white pine and balsam fir, the gurgle of the stream around my feet and the morning sun streaming through the trees...not a soul around for miles.
A picture would not have done it justice. I thought to myself that I may never set foot in this stream again, and that the moment that I was in may never come back. So I slowed down, took a breath and for the first time in a very, very long time, felt my body and mind relax.
I caught many trout, more than I ever have on any other outing. It seemed I could do no wrong. I arrived back at the cabin to questions like 'how was the fishing?' .....I just smiled and said 'it was ok..' knowing that they would never, ever know what I had experienced, nor would they ever understand, because they are not fishermen.
Thanks Mav, made my day.
A picture would not have done it justice. I thought to myself that I may never set foot in this stream again, and that the moment that I was in may never come back. So I slowed down, took a breath and for the first time in a very, very long time, felt my body and mind relax.
I caught many trout, more than I ever have on any other outing. It seemed I could do no wrong. I arrived back at the cabin to questions like 'how was the fishing?' .....I just smiled and said 'it was ok..' knowing that they would never, ever know what I had experienced, nor would they ever understand, because they are not fishermen.
Thanks Mav, made my day.
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Re: Seize the moment
Nailed it bud! Thanks for the reply!
campnfish wrote:I just returned from the Lake Placid area....waded a few small streams and the above describes exactly the feeling I had. The thick smell of white pine and balsam fir, the gurgle of the stream around my feet and the morning sun streaming through the trees...not a soul around for miles.
A picture would not have done it justice. I thought to myself that I may never set foot in this stream again, and that the moment that I was in may never come back. So I slowed down, took a breath and for the first time in a very, very long time, felt my body and mind relax.
I caught many trout, more than I ever have on any other outing. It seemed I could do no wrong. I arrived back at the cabin to questions like 'how was the fishing?' .....I just smiled and said 'it was ok..' knowing that they would never, ever know what I had experienced, nor would they ever understand, because they are not fishermen.
Thanks Mav, made my day.
If fishin ain't your mission, then you can kiss my Bass!
Re: Seize the moment
That is so true ...campnfish wrote:
A picture would not have done it justice. I thought to myself that I may never set foot in this stream again, and that the moment that I was in may never come back. So I slowed down, took a breath and for the first time in a very, very long time, felt my body and mind relax.
I've taken an awful lot of pictures when fishing.
Not so much of fish that I caught and people I fished with, but mostly of the surrounding nature.
Not one of the pictures is as vivid in my mind as the scenes that I did not capture.
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Re: Seize the moment
I love running up a lake or river, WOT on the bass boat, water like glass and the sun coming over the mountains.
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Re: Seize the moment
WOT in this particular channel is quite a rush and very exhilarating, wouldn't do it with the Ranger but recall navigating this serpentine course with the Stratos.....you know the channel! lolShawnD wrote:I love running up a lake or river, WOT on the bass boat, water like glass and the sun coming over the mountains.
Crack “O” Dawn before blast off is also somewhat very intoxicating, adrenaline pumping, heart rate racing anxiously wanting to put that hot foot to the metal lol
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Re: Seize the moment
Cool post. The things we appreciate more and more everyday.
Team 28 with one fish again, just sayin'.
RJ
Team 28 with one fish again, just sayin'.
RJ
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Re: Seize the moment
good post lads!
remember one big fish could do ya well come the 18th!
cheers
remember one big fish could do ya well come the 18th!
cheers
Re: Seize the moment
We been practicing. That was the biggest Bass in Meech lake that day.Chevy Champagne wrote:good post lads!
remember one big fish could do ya well come the 18th!
cheers
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