“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I was thinking about this today and I began to think about all the easy things we can do or begin that affect our and other’s lives so much. One of the simplest things I have read about came to mind related to fishing. A Duke, and I can’t remember which one, was fishing on his pond in England. Since he wasn’t catching any fish, he took a break to have lunch and opened up his pack. In it, he had a silver spoon to use with his lunch. While opening his pack the spoon fell overboard and fluttered down in the water. As it spun its way towards the bottom of the pond, the light hit it and reflected alternately to his view off the spoon. As it tumbled, he saw a large trout lunge and take the spoon in its mouth from behind the spoon portion of the utensil.
Naturally, this was astonishing as it is the first time he had witnessed this behavior yet it intrigued him. He went back home and destroyed a few of his spoons, taking the handles off and attaching hooks to it until he finally got the right invention: the jigging spoon. Simulating a bait fish dying or being in the throes of dying or injured, attracts any number of fish, as it is easy prey and provides high protein benefits. And so, the jigging spoon was born out of discovery of a simple error.
What does that mean here? Nothing more than I was thinking about how easy some things are just through happenstance. It is a favorite lure of mine to use in many different ways and not just by jigging. Swimming the lure makes it look like a minnow swimming to catch up to its school so it is the lone prey outside of protection. So many ways to use it, and we have taken it even farther by adding spoons and spinners to jig type baits creating spinner baits of all sizes to look like groups of small minnows swimming together. They can fall in the water and flutter, fly across the top water or dip and dive through the dark weeds like they are trying to escape another fish which intrigues the larger fish to strike out of aggravation.
Really, this is about me wanting to go fish and itching to get active in that venture again. I need only take the time and schedule it. SO GET ON IT!
XO ILY YM
