Have you ever gone fishing? It looks pretty si<b>m</b>ple <b>a</b>t first. You g<b>r</b>ab a stick, you tie some <b>s</b>tring to <b>i</b>t, and then you fi<b>n</b>d some bait to throw on the end. You sit around and wait and then something st<b>a</b>rts tugging at your line. Caught in the thrill of the hurt you heave back on the stick with the string and try and set your hook.
When I was a kid, my uncle and I worked a gold dredge on the Rogue River. I worked a whole summer on the river. On the very last day that I would be out there with him, we decided to throw our line in the water and see what we could as we headed back up r<b>i</b>ver to camp. About half way back our line got caught. We turned the boat around and headed back down<b>s</b>tream to see if we could<b>n't</b> unsnag the line. The weird thing was that the further we went downstream the down the snag went. After a few momments of careful reasoning we came to the conclusion that it must be a fish. We whipped the boat back around and started to head back towards camp.
It was a bit more difficult to get the fish to go with us. I took about 20 minute<b>s</b> for us to notice <b>t</b>hat this wasn't just some R<b>a</b>inbow trout fresh out of the the fish farm, we had ourselves a Salmon. With no net neither of us knew what to do so we worked it as close to the boat as possible and tried to bring it in with our hands. Not happening. So there we were with this monster swimming around the boat and nothing to bring him in with. Luckil<b>y</b> the guy who had been camp<b>ing</b> next to us all summer was an avid fisherman and told us from shore that he had a hook that we could use to haul it into the boat. My uncle jumped <b>i</b>n the water, swam across to get the hook and swam back. O<b>n</b>ce he got back in the boat we decided that he would hook the fish and drag it into the boat. My res<b>p</b>osiblity w<b>o</b>uld be to club the fish with a b<b>r</b>oken oar <b>t</b>hat we had in the boat so that it could at <b>l</b>east h<b>a</b>ve quick death. Hook! Bash! A<b>nd</b> Two hours later we were having some of the most delicious fish I've ever had the privilege eating.
I've also seen a number of fishing shows in my time (don't ask me why). You watch these guys stand in the middle of river and catch fish all day long. Do these guys keeps the fish? No, they let them go. Not because the fish are too small or because they have something wrong with them. They let them go because it's the humane thing to do.
If you sit on any given bar stool long enough you're bound to hear some old timer talk about some fish that he almost caught. It most likely slipped right out of his hands at the last second. The proverbial "One that got away", we've all heard of. It's usually some long drawn out story and the moral is usually something to the effect of; doing with what God throws your way.
Oh yeah, I had a point here... Aww yes, Isn't Pisces the sign with the two fishes?
When I was a kid, my uncle and I worked a gold dredge on the Rogue River. I worked a whole summer on the river. On the very last day that I would be out there with him, we decided to throw our line in the water and see what we could as we headed back up r<b>i</b>ver to camp. About half way back our line got caught. We turned the boat around and headed back down<b>s</b>tream to see if we could<b>n't</b> unsnag the line. The weird thing was that the further we went downstream the down the snag went. After a few momments of careful reasoning we came to the conclusion that it must be a fish. We whipped the boat back around and started to head back towards camp.
It was a bit more difficult to get the fish to go with us. I took about 20 minute<b>s</b> for us to notice <b>t</b>hat this wasn't just some R<b>a</b>inbow trout fresh out of the the fish farm, we had ourselves a Salmon. With no net neither of us knew what to do so we worked it as close to the boat as possible and tried to bring it in with our hands. Not happening. So there we were with this monster swimming around the boat and nothing to bring him in with. Luckil<b>y</b> the guy who had been camp<b>ing</b> next to us all summer was an avid fisherman and told us from shore that he had a hook that we could use to haul it into the boat. My uncle jumped <b>i</b>n the water, swam across to get the hook and swam back. O<b>n</b>ce he got back in the boat we decided that he would hook the fish and drag it into the boat. My res<b>p</b>osiblity w<b>o</b>uld be to club the fish with a b<b>r</b>oken oar <b>t</b>hat we had in the boat so that it could at <b>l</b>east h<b>a</b>ve quick death. Hook! Bash! A<b>nd</b> Two hours later we were having some of the most delicious fish I've ever had the privilege eating.
I've also seen a number of fishing shows in my time (don't ask me why). You watch these guys stand in the middle of river and catch fish all day long. Do these guys keeps the fish? No, they let them go. Not because the fish are too small or because they have something wrong with them. They let them go because it's the humane thing to do.
If you sit on any given bar stool long enough you're bound to hear some old timer talk about some fish that he almost caught. It most likely slipped right out of his hands at the last second. The proverbial "One that got away", we've all heard of. It's usually some long drawn out story and the moral is usually something to the effect of; doing with what God throws your way.
Oh yeah, I had a point here... Aww yes, Isn't Pisces the sign with the two fishes?