Being a huge fishing fan means you like to enjoy a quiet afternoon by yourself or with a friend or two and just stare into the sapphire coloured water waiting for the perfect catch. Us men, in particular, love the calmness and relaxation that comes with fishing. It’s an activity that can easily captivate your full attention and make you forget about everything else except the lure, eagerly awaiting the catch.
Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned. Fortunately, when they don’t, you can still have a good laugh and enjoy a moment or two of embarrassment and learn from the mistakes, so that you don’t repeat them in the future. Or, you can just go online and look for some fishing show bloopers, laugh at other people’s mistakes and try to do the complete opposite of what they are doing. It’s an educational and fun way to learn how to fish, or rather learn how not to.
While fishing, I always find myself engaging into long and deep conversations with my friends and I often get carried away in the conversation that I completely forget about my surroundings – that I’m on a shaky boat, that the surface is slippery, that a big fish might actually pull the pole hard, and so on.
Last week I learned how to pay more attention to where I’m standing and how firmly – the hard way. I was casually standing on the edge of the boat, talking to my friend while holding the pole and enjoying my beer. Whilst all of this was happening, a fish bit the lure, slightly pulled the pole, which dropped from my hand, and in an attempt to prevent the pole from falling in the water, I slipped from the pond of water that had formed on the boat and fell in the lake.
After taking a short dive from my fall, I resurfaced and saw my friend looking at me in awe for a few moments, and when he saw my wet confused face, he burst out laughing out loud. The only regret he had was not filming the entire scenario, as it would have been quite the story to tell after we returned from the fishing trip.
Surely, I spent the rest of the day trying to dry myself up and being much more careful about what I was doing while holding the pole. It was truly a situation that would have went viral on a fishing show bloopers.
