| There are all kinds of fishing tournaments and fishing | | | | now. He would show me how to dig deep to get the |
| contests you can enter. There are fishing channels on | | | | best worms and how to put them on my hook so |
| cable television. I wonder if it's an Olympic event yet? | | | | they'd stay. Then we'd hit the water in our little |
| Anyway, I say that fishing is not a sport. | | | | fishing boat wearing those bright orange life jackets |
| When you think of a sport, you think of sweating | | | | that always smelled a little funny when you put them |
| and rushing and pulling muscles and stuff. Well, when I | | | | on. Sometimes it would be an hour or more before |
| think of fishing I think of quiet summer afternoons | | | | either of us spoke. It was our way of relaxing and |
| by myself on the lake. I think of relaxing in my little | | | | just enjoying being together. |
| one man pontoon boat and letting my mind drift as | | | | Now as a grown up, I'm still drawn to that solitude of |
| my fishing lure bobs on the surface of the water. | | | | the lake. After a week of work and bills and |
| There's nothing else as relaxing as this. | | | | schedules, I get so stressed out. But just a few |
| Now, true, you can have sweating and rushing and | | | | minutes of fishing can take my mind to that place of |
| pulling muscles when you fish, but why would you | | | | peace and contentment. |
| want to? I mean, just the pure solitude while you're | | | | The little fishing boat fell apart years ago, so now I |
| out on the water can quiet your mind and replenish | | | | have a one man boat. When I have a son, I want to |
| your energy. If you're doing it as a competition sport | | | | show him the joys of being alone with just the |
| you lose all those relaxing qualities. | | | | water and the fish. I guess I'll need to get a bigger |
| When I was little, my Daddy used to take me to the | | | | boat. |
| same lake in the woods behind our cabin that I go to | | | | |