Swamp Girl

"The way that you wander is the the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose. Sunshine or thunder A woman will always wonder Where...the fair wind blows, Where...the fair wind blows."

So true.

There's a pond close to my home that looks perfect for lmb, but I've never fished it because I must have driven past it a hundred times, but have never seen a bass dapple the surface. If there were bass there, I'd have seen them feeding.

Okay, @Darth-Baiter, you're Gene Kelly and I'm Buster Keaton. Love the Legolas reference!

Cool! I understand this to a degree, but if I speak both Japanese and English, I'm not going to speak to an English-speaking audience in Japanese. However, I overall concede your point.

@JonB2: Ha! We're fishing the same kind of thicket: I do the same in my canoe. I take pride in literally bumping bass with the bow of my canoe. They don't sense my coming because I'm not clanging and banging like a tourist.

I never quibbled about Shad, Perch, and Goby. Given that MegaBass is a Japanese company, Wakasagi works for that market, but how did you know that the Wakasagi "is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia?" Did you enter this discussion with this knowledge or did you Google it? If it's the former, that's impressive. If it's the latter, you proved my point. I'm sure there are some cute ones, but I shop like @king fisher; I look for green or purple or silver or gold. Speaking of colors, I can't wait to go fish some deep weed patches tomorrow morning. I'll be chucking green and blue wacky worms, or, if you prefer, Green Pumpkin Sweet Soiree and Junebug Hoedown Buckleberry. Deal!

@JonB2: When I was a kid, I waded the muck at farm ponds. Good memories.

Ah, I see. I live in low-crime Maine, which is why I leave two canoes at my waterfront lot, along with some gear. My dad expressed fear that they'd be stolen, as they're worth a couple grand. I said, "Dad, there are dozens of other unlocked boats sitting along the shoreline and hundreds of thousands of unlocked boats on other Maine shorelines. Plus, thieves are lazy and boats are heavy." I sometimes leave my rods and tacklebox in the boats too.

Play nice. Only because they conveyed nothing to me, much like io6d-+ might capture your attention. <Sigh> I'm not offended. I don't have enough skin in the game to be offended. Disappointed is a better descriptor. 20 years ago, when women's clothing manufacturer used "adjectives (sic)" like wind to "describe" the color of a t-shirt, I was also disappointed. Same with the Sherwin-Williams color of my living room wall: Guesthouse. "Guesthouse" lugs no meaning. It's a slacker. It's also manipulative as rich people have guest houses. So, it tugs at the desire to be rich. Language matters. It's what binds us. Precision comes from caring for clarity. Imprecision is the son of sloth. For example, Collins dictionary lists 59 words for shades of red. 59. And that's just one color. Why then choose "wish" to describe a variant of red? I would further argue that "California 420" and "MG Wakasagi 2" are also manipulative, that the former might trigger a purchase by a pot user and the latter might trigger a purchase largely because a Japanese man tied the world record. Arguing with you guys is forcing me to clarify why I'm irked. I assume most of you watched "Mad Men," where ad men made a lot of men manipulating consumers. They obfuscated and lied for profit. Instead of simply describing what an item would/could do, they suggested that purchasing it would make them cooler, more popular, etc. I see some of that in the names of colors and being aware of it gives me a measure of immunity. I like @king fisher's approach. Purple works for him. A lure maker can call their purple soft plastic lure whatever they want, but as long as it's purple, he'll buy it.

Okay, for those of you who argue that there's rhyme and reason to the bait color names, without googling these color names, describe them: GP Stain Reaction Gerbera GP Crack Spawn GP Baby Kingyo MG Wakasagi 2

I thought Muck boots were a Maine thing. Cool that you wear them too!

I just checked your weather forecast, Mike. It's brutal there.

They're forecasting feels like temps of 110-115 degrees in S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in the coming days.

Thanks for the info, but it still doesn't pass the clarity test...unless you're familiar with Hitch. I know words and places many people don't know, but I don't use them because I was paid to communicate, not confuse. Oh, I love language, but a writer should wrangle words, not let them run willy-nilly. A writer's best friend should be the delete key. Your video reminds me of the Gaia hypothesis, which posits that the Earth functions as an organism.

@A-Jay: Those steps are cool, not just functional, but elegant...unlike me. I'm functional, but inelegant.

@casts_by_fly: Ah, you're a polygot! I don't think I have a discerning enough tongue...or I'm simply not willing to rave about the emperor's new clothes. I'm going with the former, but am not going to toss the latter as I've never drank any wine that tasted like butter. I do appreciate your explanation of grippy and chewy and they seem apt, but butter.... Actually, I am. I've had poetry published in several journals, but publishable poetry is precise. "Clear Lake Hitch" is sloshy.

In another thread, @herder wrote: To exit from my canoe at my pond, I have to squat on the kayak seat of my canoe, grab one of the boards of my dock, which is well above the canoe, and yank/launch myself onto the dock. When you're old and stiff, it's never pretty. The beauty of launching from a swamp is that there's no one there to see me...and laugh. Anyone else have tales of woe of entering or exiting a small boat..or a big boat?

Misery loves company. So, we'll keep each other company. I'll get us a balcony seat and we can chjeer for the guys still fishing like these two:

Take August off. Then I won't be alone.

Ahh, it's another language. If you ever teach a Lure Colors as a Second Language class, I'll be sitting in the front row...and taking notes! Also, can you explain why words like oaky, butter, chewy, and grippy are used to describe the tastes of wines?

Wind is also problematic for me because then I can't see the Pondweed. At least the Lily pads will flap a bit in the wind. I'm super excited for Monday morning. I'm shooting for twenty bass, but hoping for thirty. Of course, bass fishing being what it is, I'll probably catch 14...AGAIN! A big head on @BigAngus752's bass!

Ha!

Well then, I'll toss a T-rigged Senko too. I'm not going to dawdle on Monday morning. I'm going to launch and troll right to the Pondweed beds, not fishing shorelines along the way.

I'm launching Monday and Tuesday mornings, but after that, I'm down and out for all of August. I'm glad you enjoy my posts and I'm sorry I won't be there for you next month.