As the title says, it's been a bad week. I'm a blessed man, and certainly blessed more than some I know, and I really shouldn't complain given my mistake week were due to very trivial things but I digress.

It's good to keep in the back of my mind that I'm heading out in the kayak Saturday morning to do some fishing. 

For all the granular details we put into fishing, sometimes it's about the simplicity. It's fun to debate the best colors for a craw trailer, or get opinions on the best and latest rods available to swing, and I'm not minimizing the importance of having a reel that fits you perfectly and helps you land your personal best.....

But sometimes it's nice to go fish someplace hidden, no cars, no computers, no people, a pond where it's easy to catch them, and just sit back, listen to the birds announce the rising sun, and just let a bad week dissipate like the wake of your boat or plop of your Jitterbug hitting the surface. It's almost like you can take the cares of a workweek, tie them to the end of your line, cast as far as you can, and if you're lucky.....you'll get them hung on a treebranch

Well said. 

Has been a successful way to keep the stress down since I started fishing a couple years ago..  my wife now suggests to me when I get home that I should go fishing...  I love it and her   best part is I wasn't even I to fishing when we met so this is all new to her and I still get the freedom a lot desire (brother in laws)

Preytorien NIce poetic ,romantic type post. I get it.Its why I enjoy fishing the dead of winter so much.

I must be the luckiest guy in the world! I catch more tree limbs than anybody I know!