August 18th, 2008
When going fishing, if you
research your location, bait your line well and take the appropriate
amount of patience and vigilance, you'll snag yourself a definite prize.
Fishing is a sport of patience,
eagle-eye vision and lightning reflexes in order to spot and to cause
the hook to get inserted deep enough so as to not let the prized poisson
get free.
Depending on the bait used
and the location sought out, whether you come home with a winner depends
on the fisherman's ability to quietly wait for the fish to nibble and
take the bait. Sometimes your spot will be unbeknownst to other eager
fishermen in the area; you'll be the only person to receive full benefit
of an untapped fishing hole. If it ever becomes known from either a
beligerent passerby or "fishing spy", then it'll be a secret
no more and overflooded with infiltrators until the supply is completely
depleted, or the fish are disturbed to the point of not wanting to be
smothered by all those hooks and "fake" offerings of nourishment.
The type of lure used may
be the determining factor in making the best of the bunch come to your
line rather than the competitors. Flashy, silvery lures may look pretty,
but sometimes a simple worm might be all but enough for the common feeding
fish.
In recruiting, "baiting
the line" is sometimes a necessity if
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