| Does an anxious fisherman exist? First, I must | | | | It is April and slab crappie are on the spawning |
| define anxious and the meaning of the term in the | | | | beds with perfect weather. The tobacco spitting |
| question posed. By anxious we mean stressed | | | | bait shop owner just told you the crappie are |
| out, angry, grouchy, testy, snappy, self absorbed, | | | | hitting a jig and live minnow combo as he filled |
| short tempered or just all around ill mannered in | | | | your minnow buckets. Thoughts of medieval |
| general. Now that anxious has been defined for | | | | torture devices and how to best apply them for |
| the purpose of this article, I will pose the question | | | | use on the Internal Revenue Service director |
| once again. Does a anxious fisherman exist? It is | | | | rapidly evaporate as you try to remember the |
| not possible for a anxious fisherman to exist as I | | | | location of the brush pile you fished last spring. |
| will explain. | | | | There are no anxious crappie fisherman. |
| While standing in a favorite trout stream casting | | | | The canoe glides slowly through the water as you |
| to rising trout on Saturday morning, the stressful | | | | quietly approach that weed bed you know is a |
| meeting with your boss on Friday becomes a | | | | favorite haunt for feisty smallmouth bass. On the |
| distant memory. So you missed that deadline, all | | | | other side of the weed bed is a long run, filled |
| that concerns you now is the fat rainbow stalking | | | | with half submerged logs and boulders used by |
| the pool below the riffles. Anxious trout fisherman | | | | smallmouth to ambush crayfish. The water pipe |
| do not exist. | | | | that busted in your upstairs bathroom last week, |
| Sitting on the casting deck of your bass boat | | | | running for two hours before discovery, is long |
| fishing at the local reservoir, a fleeting thought of | | | | forgotten. Anxious smallmouth bass fisherman do |
| the wife mentioning something about yard work | | | | not exist. |
| and sleeping on the sofa crosses your mind but is | | | | The only possibility for the existence of an |
| quickly placed in your mental file thirteen. More | | | | anxious fisherman is the commercial fisherman |
| pressing is the GPS announcing your arrival over | | | | but he really does not count. He fishes for income |
| your favorite rocky point where the bass love | | | | and this makes it work. So to answer our |
| jig-n-pigs bounced along the rocks. Anxious bass | | | | question we must ask again, does an anxious |
| fisherman do not exist. | | | | fisherman exist? Not likely. |