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“Got one,” It was not a yell, but loud enough to ricochet off the mountains in the distance. As I lean into my hook set, the power runs up my rod through the line and drives the razor sharp piece of American hardened steel through the bony roof of the fish’s mouth. The fight ensues. Just by the weight I can tell that it is a little bigger than the plethora of smallmouth I'd been reeling in all day. She's closing in, twenty feet. Ten. Five. I lift my rod, ready for an attempt at a boat flip when a fisherman’s worst nightmare comes true: she throws the hook. Back to the depths and rock cover she goes. Defeat comes over me, but I shake it off as I make the next cast to a nearby rock. The day continues, sun beating off the water and onto me. The …show more content…
I'd been reliving last week's fishing trip in my mind, as my family was eating dinner. This happens frequently, when I'm not fishing. I am thinking about it, planning my next trip, considering what lures, what rigs, what techniques, just reliving that peaceful harmony that only fishermen know. Fishing is my escape, my drug of choice. Whenever I'm stressed or just need a break, I turn to the soothing hum of my family's Honda outboard, the stench of soft plastics, and the rush of the hook set. Fishing to me is not a choice; it's a lifestyle, one that is so ingrained and intertwined in my character and being, that not knowing I fish is essentially not knowing me. My love of fishing, or as my mom would put it “my obsession,” which may more be accurate, can be traced back to my earliest memories of catching stripers off the dock that jutted out into Montsweag Bay where I first learned the basics. The passion only grew from there, growing as I did. Now it encompasses all forms of fishing: freshwater, saltwater, as well as ice fishing. If there's a body of water, and the slightest chance for catching fish, there's a pretty good chance, you'll see me there pole in

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