The obligatory first post

Since I was a child, I have enjoyed collecting things. There was a rock collection, a stamp collection, and when I was a bit older, a beer bottle collection. There have been collections that continue and collections that have abated. Like the beer bottles, most collections have been thrown away.

A hobby (or I should say a sport) that I have participated in all my life is fishing. It started as many hobbies do--from a family member--my father. Telling and retelling the stories of my trips with him often is more fun than the outings themselves.

I don't keep fish that I catch, and the few times that I do keep a fish, it is for the dinner table. And though I'm a collector, I don't mouth fish. I celebrate the fish by letting it go.

And so, the purpose of this blog--must they all have a purpose?--is to record those stories because if anything, I am a collector.