Word: fished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with me a piece of paper with a saltwater stamp from the State of Texas that said I was allowed to physically remove fish from the water. Empowering? Yes it was. I was equipped with a closet-dusty rod and reel and a fast-fading knowledge of fishing technique. The past two years at Harvard had mostly been spent writing papers and launching my body at other guys in helmets and pads--two things that don't bode well for memory retention...
...fished the shoreline's natural gutters where the fish ran on their breakfast binge. The first hour went by without a nibble. Then I spotted something in the water...
...seemingly harmless, softball-sized jellyfish propelled itself past me as I watched its movements carefully. Moments later, Dad hauled in his first prize of the day--a smallish sand trout. As he attached the fish to the stringer, I noticed that a few more jellyfish had begun to appear, of no consequence to me, to be sure...
Minutes later, the journeyman was hooking sand trout, ribbonfish, speckled trout, you name it. He seemed to be a few fish from writing his own article for Saltwater Sportsman. His stringer got more and more crowded. I, however, could not shake the goose...
After switching to a spinner bait--a silver spoon of sorts with a hook--I snagged a small fish of my own. Actually, it is possibly the smallest fish I have ever seen. At time of print, I am not certain as to whether the tiny whiting was actually hungry or was attempting to engage in fin-to-fin combat with its peer out of insecurity...