Fishing

As I grew from a fishing in a pond smaller than my driveway to fishing in the ocean I realized it doesn't matter if you have a 200 dollar reel and rod. It matters how much time you put into it. The first time I threw my line into a pond was with six dollar lures on the end of my line. My expectations were high, but I had no idea what I was doing. If you're going to do something google it for hours. If you have a pond to fish in and you google "how to catch a great white shark" your setting yourself up for failure. I spent long hours into the night doing extensive search's on how to catch a largemouth bass. A week later I had an eight pound bass in my hands, I could fit my fist in it's mouth. Surprisingly I wasn't satisfied so that summer (it was spring) when I went to the beach. I found the best bait and tackle around. It was run by local who know what they are doing. The first day I was on the jetty's fishing for striped bass, bluefish and flounder.
First cast I'm slowing reeling it in when BANG, fish on. It runs to the middle of a three hundred yard wide inlet and flies of the hook. I was messing around with my rod beforehand and the drag was so light I couldn't reel at all. As disappointed as I was, I kept with it and started surf fishing from the sand with a big nine foot long rod. Couple days later my buddy and I are reeling in skate after skate after skate. He even caught two skates on one line. (I was using a double hooked bluefish rig with chunks of spot we caught earlier that day) Fishing is probably one of the best time wasters there is. I once spent six hours at a pond one day and thought I'd been there for an hour. I love fishing and I hope you do too.

Paper Airplanes

Have you ever made a paper airplane before? Did it work? If it failed, did you ask yourself what the heck went wrong? The wings were straight and you threw it with touch. What happened? You made a bad paper airplane, it sucked. You might as well crumple it into a ball and never even think about airplanes again. Except on your flight to Vegas. Anyway I now how you felt as a beginner it was not fun. It was like watching a duck get shot out of the air; it nose bombed. If you make a basic paper airplane and put time into it, it will fly well. It doesn't have to be some fancy piece a paper origami in flight, it just has to fly. What helped me when I first started making paper airplanes was I did a quick search on google for "basic paper airplane" click on the second link and your ready to fly. You learn fairly quickly that a few small changes to your paper airplane can go a long way. One time, I built an airplane that fell straight to the ground as soon as I released it. It looked like it would be able to fly: the wings were symmetrical, the nose was aerodynamic, and the wings were sturdy. I decided to add a piece of tape to the bottom of the plane and all of the sudden it started flying 20 to 30 feet. I was amazed! That shows that if you add only ounces the plane will fly to Alaska (not if you already live there).

Don't be afraid to start over.