| To me, baseball isn't the great American | | | | |
| pastime; fishing is. I was raised on | | | | It turns out that my dad had been into |
| Arkansas trout fishing, and my son has been | | | | Arkansas trout fishing for a long time, but |
| raised on it as well. Trout fishing in | | | | had given it up in the last few years. It |
| Arkansas is one of the most popular ways to | | | | seems that he just didn't have enough time |
| spend time. You see, things move a little | | | | anymore, but when I began to ask him to take |
| bit slower down there. I don't want you to | | | | me on a trip, he gladly agreed. Our first |
| think that we are all rednecks. Yes friends, | | | | Arkansas trout fishing trip was a little bit |
| we have electricity, plumbing, high-tech | | | | awkward. You see, my dad was not really the |
| industry, and some of the greatest cities in | | | | talkative type, and it was hard for him to be |
| the world. In Arkansas, however, unlike in | | | | alone with nothing to do but sit there and |
| much of the rest of America, these things do | | | | fish for so long. On the other hand, I was |
| not replace the great outdoors. We still | | | | just the opposite, and liked to talk nonstop. |
| continue to take pleasure in nature, even as | | | | It took a while to get into a natural |
| we enjoy the modern conveniences of life. | | | | rhythm, but when we did, it was smooth |
| | | | sailing from there. |
| I still remember my first Arkansas trout | | | | |
| fishing trip. I was with my uncle, who I | | | | If you've never been Arkansas trout fishing |
| thought was a nut. He'd make strange jokes | | | | before, I suggest that you go with an expert. |
| that his kids could not understand, and | | | | You see, the streams are different at |
| sometimes stared off into the distance, but | | | | different times of years, and you have to use |
| boy did that man know how to fish for trout. | | | | different fishing techniques. It can |
| He taught me all the tricks that you need to | | | | actually get pretty complicated. You'll have |
| know for Arkansas trout fishing. He taught | | | | much more success with your Arkansas trout |
| me how to use fishing flies, lures, sinkers, | | | | fishing adventure if you go with someone who |
| hooks, and all the rest. By the time I was | | | | knows the ropes. They can show you how it's |
| done with a trip, I thought of myself as an | | | | done. |
| expert fisherman. | | | | |