The most effective way to manage change is to create it. - Peter Drucker

Yes! A spot of fishing..

Fishing is still fishing however these days there is also computer Phishing said the same as fishing.  This is fishing I suppose in all the similar senses of the word and its original meaning.

I don't go fishing any more.  I have no one to go fishing with.  I can't manage it on my own.  I would need help with the bait attachment  successfully and the taking off of the fish I caught.  If I was to catch one I would not know how to gut the fish.

I should not dwell on the past but some explanation is necessary.  When I was married and when I had children we went fishing sometimes.  Not near enough though and when we did I was never allowed to touch the damn things.  Besides that I was probably making sure that three children were not drowning or killing each other or hooking each other up with their sheer casting skills.

I remember fishing at Gleniffer with the three children and Montana was a baby and was in a back pack carrier on her father's back.  He had strategically placed the fish we had caught on a strong skinny tree branch  behind him on the bank.  Perch are really slimy as well.  He was fishing away very happily as Montana wasn't fussing around and was quite quiet on his back.  I came around the corner back from where I had been fishing to see a slime covered Montana.  She was in reach of these fish he had hung up and she had been having a very good time covering herself in slime.  It was pretty yuck and it was very funny.

So, with all that going on  I never really progressed any further than childhood with that skill of tackling up.  All of this doesn't mean I don't like fishing though.  I love fishing.  I am quite good at catching them.  I will sit there with the best of them waiting for that illusive bite and to possibly catch that illusive fish that may just be lurking unaware near my hook.

Sometimes I think I will never ever go fishing again because there is no one to go with.  This makes me feel really sad as I do feel like I missed out somewhere along the line.  Wish I was able to do all this myself.  Even if I could do all of this myself I still would not go fishing alone.  I have a fear of being alone in wide open spaces and so it goes I would need company.  There is no one.

Image by Mezza - Dawn fishing in Urunga April 2012