🔊🗣️ Veteran journalist @RetirementRides and I discussed how it’s often hard to “turn off” thinking about what viable story angles you can write about of a travel experience. Here, off the west coast of #VancouverIsland, not only were we fishing for Pacific #salmon, we were also fishing for potential story angles. (Does that make us “story anglers?“)
Of course, #fishing has served as the foundation of many classic stories, from Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It” to Hemingway’s immortal “The Old Man and The Sea,” not to mention Melville’s “Moby Dick.” The metaphors that fishing can create seem to be endless; it’s an activity of a perpetual and challenging pursuit of a resolution. The Webster’s definition of fishing—“the sport or business of catching fish”—is perhaps oversimplified; what I’ve learned from fishing with @NootkaMarineAdventures is that it is a game of baiting, casting, waiting, luring, reacting, understanding the motions of an unseen creature merely by feeling, behaving accordingly, physical strength, and mental strategy. It’s no wonder it’s easy to create metaphors from fishing; it can parallel struggles in life, business, and relationships. In fact, it dawned on me how many phrases in dating come from fishing, e.g., “s/he’s a keeper,” “the one that got away,” and “there are plenty of fish in the sea.”
The fishing adventure continued with @RobAnnis, @Dave_NMA, and Captain Dan, and it was much more productive than earlier. The fish were biting, and we were reeling them in. However, many were in catch-and-release categories for the particular slice of Canadian waters we were trolling in. Even with a few that *got away*, I managed to attract and pull 4 silver/coho salmon. However, they were wild, and therefore not permissible to take home to mother. (You can tell a salmon is wild because it still has an adipose fin, as opposed to a hatchery-released salmon that has this little back fin clipped off.) I also caught a #lingcod, but it was too young, and was released back to mature.
Rob was more fortunate; after one catch-and-release coho and a few that got away, he managed to catch three *keepers*: two coho salmon—one 5 lbs, one 3—plus a rockfish that we’re told is great for fish tacos. (Its eyes gruesomely popped out of its head when surfacing too fast from deep waters, so it’s good that its demise would at least be purposed in a tortilla.)
Our time on the water was starting to run thin, and from the look of things, I was about to go home empty-handed… — in #BritishColumbia, #Canada. 🇨🇦
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