Close your eyes, just look back, and weigh everything :
I'm 36, got a nice wife, 3 kids I love, a job bringing in enough money to be able to live honestly and spend some of it in leisure at sea...
Been competing in windsurfing (qualified for for the French nationals 4 times, tried wave surfing for the pleasure, then fishing)
I just hope this will continue for a long long time !!!
As far as fishing is concerned, I really enjoy bringing newbies and teach them the basics ("I've been fishing for a year and never caught a single fish..."), and as somebody said, share with kids (even if my daughters HATE eating bass...). I'm not a professionnal, I just try to be on the water as often as possible, and be humble.
Last saturday, went with a friend, his 12 years old daughter, fishing 7 miles away from the shore with live eels. Scarce fishes but a nice 30" 7 pounder (real big in the French standard, keeper size is 14"). You should have seen how proud the young girl looked on the picture ! Made me happy for the rest of the day.
Expecting a really big one, yes, as everybody I suppose, but which leaves you the best memories : the ones you kept or the ones you missed after a long fight ??? Or the released ?
Today, I just wish I were on holiday (soon...), to experience striper, either on a topwater (exposive action?), or on the fly...
And yes, the bigger the better !!!
"Fish hard, live long" : I'll get these stickers for me and my friends, sure
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