[Eskimo]

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I find that as an angler's interest and skills evolve and grow, buying a boat becomes an almost inevitable purchase.

And I admire your humility for addressing the envy shore-bound anglers feel for anyone equipped with a water craft that can take them beyond the shitty, trash-strewn, over-fished shore fishing spots.

I forgot those feelings of jealousy and resentment until I recently went on vacation in Florida and and stayed at a condo located along a salt-water canal. My angling was limited to the property of the condominium complex. Everything else was other's private property. The green-eyed monster of jealousy raged up inside of me every time a boat (often with beautiful, bikini-clad women as passengers) motored through the canal on its way to the intercoastal or ocean.

But I learned a lot in those years I spent as a shore-bound angler. I learned:

*how to find value in any fish, even if it's not a trophy gamefish. Rather the value of the fish is in the effort and time you had to put into catching him.

*how to make the best of what's available to you, even if it is far from ideal

*patience

*which berries are edible and which will make you sick.

And I've met all kinds of interesting people while fishing the shoreline.


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