The fog settles upon the lake after a heavy rain. Fog means no wind, so the air is still. As the fog thickens, one cannot tell where the water and sky meet. It’s like your floating inside a cloud. Silence is broken by a splash, then another, then yet another. The splashes come closer and closer. You strain to see what is disturbing the surface, but the fog is so thick you could cut it with a knife. The moisture is now condensing all over everything. Drops of water start to drip from your hand that is holding your favorite rod. You’re tense and anxious. “Darn, where are they! I can hear them but I can’t see them.” “Just cast, just cast,” you say to yourself.”
The top water lure hits with a splash. You wait a moment or two before you dare to twitch the rod, but before you can something big rolls on your lure. But you don’t see it, because of the fog. You know that something has grabbed your lure because droplets of moisture are flying off the line as it is being ripped off your reel. You instinctively set the hook. Your rod bends like a willow branch in a storm. The drag is screaming, and you dare not apply anymore pressure for fear of loosing the big one.
The large fish starts to dive while moving its head from side-to-side in a futile attempt to shake your hook. It dives deeper and deeper, ever slowly taking more line from your reel. After what seems to be an eternity, the fish starts to tire and starts to surface. The clap in the fog that you hear sounds like the clap of thunder as your heart beats in anticipation of just getting a look at this magnificent fish. It gets closer and closer, but the fog is still so thick you can’t see anything. Soon the fish is right there next to you and you reach down carefully, so as not to startle it. You lip this very large fish, the biggest you have ever caught. You smile and thank god for a wonderful moment. You look at this magnificent fish and then release is back into the fog.
You say to yourself, “Its great fishing in heaven.”
JJ
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