Catch and release fishing! Why would one do a thing like that? I thought the historical purpose of fishing was to catch something to eat. When I was growing up in Coal Fire, I remember an old lady (I can’t remember her name), who lived across the creek. Pete probably remembers her name. This lady would spend hours on the creek fishing almost every day, fighting the heat, the mosquitoes, the snakes, and every other varment that inhabited Coal Fire swamp (perhaps even a few ghost as well). I just cannot picture this lady throwing any kind of fish back. If it was too small to eat, she would use it for bait. Fish were too hard to come by to waste. Perhaps we are leading a life that is too easy. It is simply too easy to be able to go down to the grocery store and buy a fish simply because one is unlucky at fishing. This lady was, indeed, a member of the greatest generation. What does that make us catch and release fishermen? Something less than the greatest, perhaps even the sorriest. Catch and release fishing! Why not just save the effort and do as my girlfriend and I did on July 4, 1967. We stopped by the fish hatchery as we drove through the Jemez Mountains toward Los Alamos and simply ate our lunch as we watched the fish swim around their ponds. It at least did not give the poor fish the shock of a heart attack, and it saved a lot of wasted energy. Besides! We had much more time to smootch.

Fishing is a nice sport and it is a good past time too. I enjoy fishing specially during weekends.;:;

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