Posted by Team breakaway on 4/10/2007, 12:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Fish Stocks Gauge"
Having been fortunate enough to spend three seasons (in my younger days) as a semi-professional footballer the comparisons are certainly there. we walk onto the beach with the same air of expectation as when you go down the tunnel. We practice techniques and skills in an effort to perfect our approach. We stand and aspire to be like the best in the sport, we celebrate success, try to live with defeat, put up with abuse (usually handbags at five paces) travel to away venues, go out in all kinds of weather,clean our gear, buy near gear, some compete with others and look forward to the next trip (game). Some of us also encourage the young to be the players of the future. In a play on words from one of the greatest managers ever "fishing is not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that!"