10-27-2006, 06:21 PM
Well Tom, i'm going to sqeeze as much time into the remaining season as I can as well. I imagine our other anglers will be doing the same. I'm just hoping that my grouper trip works out. I have this fear in the back of my mind that i'll pull the boat down to the beach when the weather is suppose to be nice, and I'll get on the water and come to find that it's rough anyhow. I went through that a couple of weeks ago. It was calling for 2' seas and mild winds. We made the 2 hour trip, put the boat in the water, and it was the biggest 2' seas I had ever seen. [
] I fought through 3 to 4' seas to the reef, and before long the wind changed to NE. With in 45 minutes of the wind changing, a rouge 7 footer broke over the bow and I decided to call it an early day. With such a small window for success, i'm praying that the weather man hits the nail on the head with an accurate report.
Fishing is my salvation, and when winter comes around, it truely is a
time. It's nice to have something to turn to that will ease your mind and eliviate some tension. My home life can be frustrating at times, as my wife tends to be less patient and personable lately; and fishing is my way of hanging in there. I'm quite sure that i'm not the only one in that senario. LOL, but hell, what home life is perfect?
There is something about the roll of the waves and the smell of the salt air that captures my very soul. I think any true saltwater angler understands this. It's an unspoken philosophy, and a very true fact. It's not just the fishing that draws us, it's the ocean as a whole, and everything with in it. We battle the unpredictable waters and ever changing weather conditions for a common goal; sometimes pushing the limits of gear and safety for that picture perfect moment. Many often challenge the limits of life itself, with a brief feeling of imortality, the illusion of controling something that is uncontrolable; like a ship at sea. There is nothing more beautiful than a sunrise over the ocean, and there is nothing more fulfilling than successfully finding fish on a day when no one else can.
Anyone who thinks that fishing isn't a sport hasn't done the right kind of fishing. We are masters of reading the water and understanding the weather. We are professors of fish, learning thier feeding habbits, migratory habbits, and prefered living conditions. We are survival experts that can cator to specific conditions on any stretch of river, lake, ocean, or bay. We use safisticated electronics like sonar and global positioning systems to locate struture, holes, and safety issues. We are pioneers of uncharted locations and inventors of new found techniques and technology. We put ourselves in harms way, time after time, for the sake of our passion. In my opinion, there is no greater sport, there is no greater challenge, there is nothing that compares to an angler.
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] I fought through 3 to 4' seas to the reef, and before long the wind changed to NE. With in 45 minutes of the wind changing, a rouge 7 footer broke over the bow and I decided to call it an early day. With such a small window for success, i'm praying that the weather man hits the nail on the head with an accurate report. Fishing is my salvation, and when winter comes around, it truely is a
time. It's nice to have something to turn to that will ease your mind and eliviate some tension. My home life can be frustrating at times, as my wife tends to be less patient and personable lately; and fishing is my way of hanging in there. I'm quite sure that i'm not the only one in that senario. LOL, but hell, what home life is perfect? There is something about the roll of the waves and the smell of the salt air that captures my very soul. I think any true saltwater angler understands this. It's an unspoken philosophy, and a very true fact. It's not just the fishing that draws us, it's the ocean as a whole, and everything with in it. We battle the unpredictable waters and ever changing weather conditions for a common goal; sometimes pushing the limits of gear and safety for that picture perfect moment. Many often challenge the limits of life itself, with a brief feeling of imortality, the illusion of controling something that is uncontrolable; like a ship at sea. There is nothing more beautiful than a sunrise over the ocean, and there is nothing more fulfilling than successfully finding fish on a day when no one else can.
Anyone who thinks that fishing isn't a sport hasn't done the right kind of fishing. We are masters of reading the water and understanding the weather. We are professors of fish, learning thier feeding habbits, migratory habbits, and prefered living conditions. We are survival experts that can cator to specific conditions on any stretch of river, lake, ocean, or bay. We use safisticated electronics like sonar and global positioning systems to locate struture, holes, and safety issues. We are pioneers of uncharted locations and inventors of new found techniques and technology. We put ourselves in harms way, time after time, for the sake of our passion. In my opinion, there is no greater sport, there is no greater challenge, there is nothing that compares to an angler.
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