Cork and I went trout fishing on Friday and he taught me his most deadly successful strategy.

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The move is to take a single salmon egg (which is about the size of a pea) and hook it onto a tiny trout hook (which is just a little bigger than a pea) and cast away. You can experiment with floaters and lead to get the right flow through the creek, but the basic point is that you want to make your salmon egg/hook look like a totally natural piece of fish food rolling down the brook. Look for areas where fish might be relaxing and waiting for food to come to them. Trout are especially careful about light and will not get caught in the sun so look for shady places at the edge of bubbly white wash or behind big rocks where the eddies make a calm spot.

I really like fishing. It’s a great excuse to spend many hours outside concentrating on a repetitive and intricate task. I think of it like making sand mandalas or other meditative activities. Not only do you get to constantly rework your technique, but you get a payoff at the end landing a fish. And then you get to eat it, double bonus.