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I think it's the moment/instant of a strike -- whether it's a big bass on a pencil popper or an eel; bulging behind a live pogie swimming in an eight trying to evade it's inevitable doom; a bluefish (yes it's exciting to have a bluefish crash a plug); a bass hitting a jig and your rod doubles over; a tarpon turning on the fly - the site of a big maw, the flash of the silver and the fly line coming tight and practically ripping the line through your fingers; a bonefish or permit rocketing over to your fly and shredding off the flat with the fly in its mouth ... these are the things that give the most satisfaction ...
... although the sun rising on a flat day with fish breaking surface in feeding mode - be they stripers, blues, albies, tuna, tarpon, permit, bonefish, redfish or whatever is equally satisfying ...
... as is working your skiff under hours of mangrove branches in the Everglades to come into a section of a creek or a bay that doesn't get much pressure from humans and finding it full of tarpon, snook, reds and seatrout also gives me a lot of satisfaction ...
... or, finding a new spot or figuring out a piece of the puzzle along the striper coast you believe has been overlooked or unknown that produces for me ...that is satisfying too ...
... uhmm ... Larry, there's too much to contain in a little post like this.
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