There are some great cartoons and tee shirts out there that capture the mindset of the true fisherman, which—as any number of psychological studies have confirmed—is a kind of single-minded insanity. Copyright law being what it is, however, I cannot show all the images I would like to. That would immediately earn me a one-way ticket to Stripe City. So I’ll just describe a couple of them.
A friend once brought me one on a tee shirt from Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard or someplace else I’ll probably never visit. It featured the eerily grinning skeleton of a surf fisherman in his lawnchair, fishing hat still perched at a rakish angle on his skull. The caption read, “One more cast.” That was pretty apt. The great promise of…
