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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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