James RickardThe road to enlightenment
August 3rd 2011 01:19
What’s that old saying about “The road to enlightenment?” No doubt about it, you’ll need some knowledge to travel that road. It’s how you apply the knowledge you possess that puts fish on your stringer.
Anglers are always looking for ways to expand their knowledge. We read, discuss, theorize, and sometimes even obsess over how to catch more and bigger fish. Your fishing smarts can be learned firsthand, but more often, it comes second hand from any number of sources. Little drip and drabs of “secrets” come into play before you can call the finished product “knowledge.”
These days, anglers have many sources of local knowledge—maybe too many sources. Gone are the days when you had a magazine or two and the advice of a grizzled local before hitting the water. With the advent of the Internet, you can Google “Fishing Wherever”, get umpteen links and become an apparent “expert” without even lifting a rod!
Without a doubt, the best type of knowledge for any activity is first hand, or actual, knowledge. This real knowledge is something you learned through personal observation or by actually doing the task at hand. It takes time, even years, to build this real world knowledge.
Since there are always “fishermen’s tales” out there, taking advice may be risky. Admittedly, second hand knowledge can speed up the learning curve, but it needs to be seasoned liberally with your own firsthand knowledge .
So if a bass fanatic tells you to try fishing in shallow water on a certain lake in spring, take that advice and put it with the common knowledge that bass spawn on such banks, and if you know they spawn in your area around May, you may be traveling the right road!
Anglers are always looking for ways to expand their knowledge. We read, discuss, theorize, and sometimes even obsess over how to catch more and bigger fish. Your fishing smarts can be learned firsthand, but more often, it comes second hand from any number of sources. Little drip and drabs of “secrets” come into play before you can call the finished product “knowledge.”
These days, anglers have many sources of local knowledge—maybe too many sources. Gone are the days when you had a magazine or two and the advice of a grizzled local before hitting the water. With the advent of the Internet, you can Google “Fishing Wherever”, get umpteen links and become an apparent “expert” without even lifting a rod!
Without a doubt, the best type of knowledge for any activity is first hand, or actual, knowledge. This real knowledge is something you learned through personal observation or by actually doing the task at hand. It takes time, even years, to build this real world knowledge.
Since there are always “fishermen’s tales” out there, taking advice may be risky. Admittedly, second hand knowledge can speed up the learning curve, but it needs to be seasoned liberally with your own firsthand knowledge .
So if a bass fanatic tells you to try fishing in shallow water on a certain lake in spring, take that advice and put it with the common knowledge that bass spawn on such banks, and if you know they spawn in your area around May, you may be traveling the right road!
Remember to take the hooks outta yer pocket before ya sit down!
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