Now, having left off with quite the haul from our gulf trip, including this solid 9 lb redfish, and super excited to be catching some dinner, my wife Aubrianne and I couldn't be happier planning out how we will add fishing back into our lives. We certainly plan on making it a regular part of life, but whats really important, and my whole point of writing this whole series was this.
The years have long gone by fast enough, and so much time has gone by that I've missed simple things in life, such as fishing, just as my dad and uncle did when they were the age I am now. Maybe this is just one of the wonderful things about being thirty-something; you get to do cool stuff like go fishing more. Or, maybe you grow to learn how to create websites based around fishing and southern lifestyle culture, and realize you arn't doing enough of that yourself.
Whatever it is, my conclusion is this. A truly Southern thing that lives in us all, is our desire and ability to hunt/fish and gather our own food. And even if its just one tomato plant growing in a 5 gallon roller pot, we can't deny who we are. Phil Robertson, of Duck Commander and the TV show Duck Dynasty, often says "I'm a low tech man, living in a high tech world". I'm definitly not absent of technology, but maybe, my world needs to be a little less high tech, and more low tech, like the time great men such as our fathers grew up in.
Time to grab a pole friends. Fathers day is upon us in only 7 days, and my 5 year old son Cayden has a Spiderman Zebco waiting on a worm.
-Charlie Veuleman
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