
23/02/2025
The anticipation that comes with fishing—it stays with you the entire adventure.
As you prepare your gear, it’s there. When you load everything up, doing your second and third run of checks to make sure you haven't forgotten anything, it lingers. During the drive, it tugs at that processing plant of a brain you have, busy figuring out what baits you'll throw and in what order. What type of structure, cover, and current you want to look for. It’s there.
As you pull into the ramp andback the boat down that feeling is still there.
When you fire up that outboard, when you drive from spot to spot. With each and every cast, it’s there. That’s why we have so many last casts as fishermen, I think.
The only time it fades is when you pull the boat into the slip. But as you load up for the trip home, you remember—you’ll be back. And that anticipation starts building all over again.