Hide your spots, show your pin

[fishfight]

I own two decent inexpensive centerpin reel , and one fly reel with two smooth bearing drag, all from china at good price, but was criticize from other boards for owning inferior non-canadian made reel, and the amount of minutes it can only spin for. I have hardly used them since I love to catch and retrieve using lures for trout with spinning reel during winter months. I just cannot find time to master all of my reels. If I just want to catch fish, I can out fish some Pinner at niagara during winter months, it is equally challenging fishing on the snag-gable bottom,and fast moving waters during winter months. Fishing is such a huge industry, $40Billion in US and $12Billion in Canada, more than Tennis and golf related industry combined. We all get sucked into owning too many things we do not always have time to use due to busy schedules. Luckyily, I am not one of those guys get sucked in to changing and owning Iphone9 soon.

On other fishing forum, we can brag and show the picture of our catch, but we cannot help those who need help in improving their skill. Forum end up creating internal celebrities, or becomes a bragging boards. Others who had less talent cannot keep up from lack of big catch of the day. Some becomes somebody known within a forum, but when it comes to knowing his real character away of the forum, their personality sucks outside of the fishing world.

I also play competitive Tennis few hours a week, own only three types of rackets in 30 years I have been playing. The industry just change the material a bit and mostly cosmetic to fool most players. Tennis balls are dirt cheap if bought in US, cost under $3 a can, last for 6-8 hours of competitive play, old ones can be sued for serving purposes or given to needy kids. No need to spend too much money on gas or to go far away to fish and avoid the crowds. One cannot play tennis too long either, since our body gets tired from running. On contrary, anyone can fish for 8 hrs +. Fishing is definitely a costly hobby and time consuming if one gets too serious about it . I remembered fishing 20 years ago, just cast a jighead on grubs, and one would catch a walleye at scugog without understanding how or when.

Luckily, hardly anyone showing off their boats! Then we need to work our ass off to aim to own a 3-car garage house, to park our boat, just to ensure our fishing hobby is perfected to an extent.