Poking and looking and yearly patterns Nov. 2002

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Date: December 21, 2002 at 21:54:36
From: ken, [pool-64-223-39-246.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Poking and looking and yearly patterns Nov. 2002

Poking and looking and talking and getting the feel of things is never a waste of fishing time. Fishing knowledge comes in a linear way and also is deepened in a spiral that repeats and expands in terms of what you notice. A year is a cycle that comes again this season and next season and the cycle changes from year to year in that the abundance of bait and where it is located varies and the moons are a bit different and the cycles of bait and location are not fixed and this affects the location and abundance of stripers from year to year. It is all connected but it is not fixed in how the year will unfold. There are cycles for the bait that are perhaps seven years long or five years or even three years. There are other cycles for other bait and it gets too broad to make a fixed equation that is always certain. Each year has a pattern that unfolds and adds to your knowledge. We all have expectations based on what happened last year and those expectations cn lead to success and also to dissappointments if we depend on last years events to repeat themselves in a fixed way. The events do repeat but some years the fall migration is strong and is in October and some years it is in November or doesn't seem to happen as an event at all. The fish do migrate but they do it in a different way then we expect. For as many years as I can remember the Atlantic herring have shown up in all the harbors along the ocean front in massive quantity in July but this year they did not. That non-event affected the fishing in relation to all the years that came before but there was still good fishing if you fished and poked and changed your routine to correspond to the way the fishing actually was rather than trying to repeat what happened last year and all the years before. Every year is different and the same but not in fixed dates or exact locations but in the larger sense of the unfolding of the same events but in this year's particular way. They happen and they happen in the same order but that order is different in amplitude and impact on the whole year. Being rigid in what you believe is going to happen leads to dissappointment and frustration. The fishing is always good but you have to find out where it is good. Last year is gone and this year is this year.
Most people do not realize that the ocean is always changing and that the desire to have what happened last year repeat itself is at the root of their frustration this year. The ocean is not trout fishing on opening day in a stocked trout pond. I like that and...... I can't wait to find out more about this year nad next year and I like reflecting on the past but I do enjoy the changes that come with each year.
It's not broken it is just bigger than our fixed boundaries of understanding it. I think you are approaching it exactly right.

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