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PONDERING CORE ESSENCE
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While most of my fishing effort over the recent long weekend at New Hampshire's Newfound Lake went towards chasing lake trout, my secondary, simple approach and Caveman Techniques produced the only action. Over the course of two nights with my legal allotment of six cusk sticks set each night, I captured (and released) four freshwater cod, i.e., cusk, aka lawyer, ling, burbot or eelpout. This was my first attempt at these fish, and my first use of cusk "sticks" deploying baits pinned to the bottom and soaking overnight. This was fishing at its most primitive level! It's always fun to try new techniques and catch new species. I won't admit that this was a thrilling chain of events, but it was fun and satisfying, and certainly out-shined the (very slow/non-existent) lake trout fishing! With a 4-fish-for-12-sets average of 0.333, that's worthy of some Hall of Fame. And, since several other baits (cut, dead and live shiners) had gone missing overnight, I think I was around a concentration of these mysterious fish. I left empty-handed, though, because while A likes to eat cod... she found these odd but reportedly delectable fish to be repulsive. Also, my plan to try to print a specimen for gyotaku was aborted because they are so finely scaled; I doubt my ability to get a nice print. Plus, each one I caught was hardly a trophy, so why not let them go to grow? What will be my next "new" fish? I don't know, but I am sure it will be fun to find! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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