Oh heck I missed a week, I am trying to figure out how to write about "Size Doesn't Matter." What brings this to mind is a fellow I watched catching fish before I headed out on a charter on Grand Lake in Grand County, Colorado.
This fellow was doing what I often do while traveling, grabbing some alone/quiet time in the early morning and fishing the local fare. Mind you he is up and at it at 5:30 a.m. on a board walk area, a few folks walking and enjoying the first breaths of a new day. I don't start my trips until at least 6:00 a.m. I love this time of day and being in the boat or just outside to experience how nature is waking on a given day ( This is my "Be Still and Know I Am" time).
Ok now to the size doesn't matter and the fellow fishing from the board walk. I was testing some fish I had spotted in the area to see if they would give me a bite for the clients who were to fish that day. I watched this fellow of more years than I fish with a crappie rig or it was one of those Eagle Claw two aberdeen hook tree rigs and worms hooked on each under a bobber.
He would cast it 10' to 12' let it sit and the stocker rainbows were eating it up. These fish were 7"-10," he caught at least 3 - 4 in the 15 minutes I was there watching. He noticed I had not seemed to be enjoying the same success as him and graciously offered all the intel for which I could succeed and enjoy the bite he had dialed in.
I am telling you he was on cloud nine and the size of these fish did not matter "Size Doesn't Matter." It was the fact he was catching them and he could share this joy with another. Remember its 5:30 a.m. and its quiet. He is sharing his info at a loud voice and others have stopped to watch him catch a few, you could observe these folks smile as they experienced his excitement and joy.
Oh and by the way the fish I was checking would not bite for me. He was king for the day. I share this kind of stuff about fishing and my experiences with it as a means for all of us to remember the times and the joys of this craft, sport or gift of extracting a creature from the depths of our mind and the environment in which they swim.
Please share the joy, use your mind to preserve and give our sport a future. Take a kid fishing or just help the other guy find success and the joy of fishing.
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