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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | THIS SATURDAY PAST WE HAD OUR FIRST ICE FISHING TRAGEDY ON THE SAGINW BAY THIS YEAR. IT HIT CLOSE TO HOME WITH ITS VICTIM BEING BOTH A MEMBER OF MY FSHING BOARD AND A CLOSE RELATIVE TO A FEW OTHERS ON IT. IT HAPENED IN OF ALL THINGS AN AIR BOAT, A TRANSPORT IN WHICH YOU WOULD THINK WOULD BE THE SAFEST IN ALL OR ANY ICE CONDITONS. THE YOUNG MAN WHO DIED (39 YEARS OLD) HAD 2 YOUNG KIDS (Son and Daughter) AND WAS AN AVID ICE FISHERMAN.
We have many posts on My fisahing board all winter long about ice fishing safety, and in reality it all comes down to ones own personal view of what being safe is and what it involves. We often rage at or call some others names for doing what they do, when we ourselves would not do it. Rather it's on the open water or the ice, we all (for the most part) determine and know what our own standards of personal safety are. So when tragedy strikes, many peoples first reaction is to blame the people hurt by it. I probably will not any time soon quit preaching to people to stay off thin ice. But fact of the matter is, virtually everything a person does in this world (work or play) can turn to tragedy, even something you are passionate about. To that end I wrote this Poem this morning.
"FISHING"
A POEM BY CAPTAIN. DAN
VERY FEW EVEN KNOW WHEN IT STARTED, THIS STRANGE CONNECTION BETWEEN FISHES AND MEN. BUT MAN'S ENJOYMENT FOR THE TASTE, BECAME SECONDARY TO THE CHASE, AND PITTED MAN AGAINST FISH LIKE A RACE.
THE FEELINGS ONE GETS IN THIS CONTEST CAN BE MANY, AND DISTORTED AT TIMES IN IT'S QUEST. FROM EXCITEMENT TO RAGE, FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE OR PUBLIC STAGE, THE CHALLENGES AND THE REWARDS ARE THE BEST.
BUT TO OFTEN IN THE SCHEME OF THIS PASSIONS, OR IN THE LIMITED TIME ONE HAS TO INVEST, THE PITFALLS AND EXTREMES ARE OVER LOOKED FOR THE DREAMS, AND CAN RISK LIFE AND LIMB IN THIS TEST.
SO HOW DOES ONE MEASURE THESE LIFE THREATENING STANDARDS, AND COMPARE THE RISK TO THE PLEASURES IT GIVES. TO STAY FREE TO ENJOY NATURES BOUNTY AND JOY, AND LIVE LIFE TO IT'S FULLEST AND BEST.
FEW WILL EVER UNDERSTAND THIS TRUE PASSION, THIS STRANGE CONNECTION BETWEEN FISHES AND MEN. THAT FEELING OF BEING A PART OF GODS NATURE AND ART, AND SHARE WITH OTHERS THIS TRUE MEANING OF LIFE.
FISHING.
Edited by walleye express 3/4/2013 11:27 AM
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