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Grabbing Lisbon with My Grubby Mitts

To call Lisbon a great place is to insult the beauty of this marvellous sunny city almost to an libellous degree. As soon as I arrived here, I knew that it was here that I was going to fulfill my God-given mission. Not only was it free from that punishing northern darkness that had been numbing my mind for so long-the city was close to the beaches where Europe's best waves for surfing splashed ashore.

I felt alive for the first time in along time. All my senses that had been numbed by the monotony of a grey city existence life burst violently into life.
I was blind, but now I could see. I felt reborn.

The next month was one the happiest of my life. Life was simple and life was great. Occasionally, I'd have another beer, and order some wonderful seafood with crabs, or have a surf in those cold wawes.

Why for God's sake was I and everyone else in Northern-Europe putting up with another hideous winter rabbiting about unimportant shit and getting stressed?

We spend our lives working in jobs that we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. No more of that.

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Know what you’re looking for

FOR EACH TYPE OF FISH you must prepare in a certain way. Each species behaves different - prefers varying depth, light and temperature. Fish isn't just fish. Got to have the right equipment to handle each type.
You have to study carefully the depth - if you miss the right depth you will end up hands empty. Each species prefer a certain depth. You'll need a sonar to measure that. A couple of meters from the the bottom, a little vegetation close to the shore-throw in a metalpiece-and-hook, no pike can resist that! Or try a living bait. Different story altogether. Link the line onto a pole at shore for the night, then get in early.

Speed is everything. Put your boat running a few knots per hour. Once you hit a colony, you just need some muscle to start pulling them up. Sounds easy? Chuck in many baits at the same time and it's a lollipop every time!
What about thickness of the line? If it's too thick, the metal bait will swim unevenly from one side to the other. A line too thin will break when the pike strikes, then you'll lose the effort.

Got to know your place. Got to read your echo-sounder. Got to know your fish. Got to know your bait. Got to know where to look, and how to look. And before anything else - you got to know what you're looking for.
Right?

 

Photo by Lance Anderson