Fishing

My husband is reading Hook, Line, and Sinker: The Complete Angler’s guide to terminal Tackle by Gary Soucie (currently available full text in Google books). The author looks at fishing the way some view cooking- as in, you can’t actually fish until you understand fluid dynamics and metallurgy. So, this book has re-kindled a strong desire to fish in my husband. He has decided to go on a quest to hook every kind of fish that exists in the local lakes. I think he’s planning on doing this over the summer.
The section he is reading right now is on rigging and sinkers, which of course explains the trip to Gander Mountain where we spent half an hour looking at sinkers and baubers. The section before this was “A Penetrating Look at Hooks” which was all about how hooks are designed, and how they are a delicate balance between the possibility of collapse under pressure and straightening the hook under pressure.