If we had to choose just one aspect of fishing that we enjoy above all the others it would have to be the story.

Yes, every caught fish has its own unique account behind it. It doesn’t have to be a personal best, have exceptional color or necessarily differentiated in some obvious way. It will still have a feature.

Of course, the exceptional fish are the ones whose tales we retell most often. Whether it be the first fish of a particular species, a true fish of a life time, a fish that demonstrated some very unusual behavior or a myriad of other circumstances that make it special to us, we tend not only to relive the experience but also to want some record of that specific event. [Read more…]