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.