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PONDERING CORE ESSENCE
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My starting point for this story is August of 2000, when I accidentally captured my first striped bass. That encounter is described at numenon.blogspot.com/2012/07/stripers.html , and while I don't have a picture of that glorious Maine specimen, she is burnt into my memory and she fired up my passion for chasing stripers. I am thankful that she appeared in my life. That it occurred in such an unlikely manner reminds me that I have been on the favored side of some thin line of luck. While I waited almost 37 years to catch my first, it took almost 20 years (19.5 of which I was a resident of fish-blessed but striper-less Michigan) for this to happen; I just caught my 1,000th Documented Striper! K joined me for this special session. She's welcomed aboard at any time, and her participation brought this within reach on this day. The details are in the June 18, 2020 entry at www.numenonfunfishing.com/numenonfunfishing, but let's just agree that it was a beautiful, fun and relaxed day, but one in which the stripers were running on the small side. While I'd envisioned an over-slot fish of greater than 35 inches to pair appropriately with my first, Striper No. 1,000 actually came loose as I grabbed the leader, and it escaped without a photograph. K quickly came through with a twin, though, and so her smile will have to make up for the missed opportunity to capture the true moment as well as for the lack of impressive size for the day's bass. I'll have to settle with the picture below of Striper No. 1,001! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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