More Profiling!

Don't assume this profiling thing is a one way street!
Walk heavily, cast a shadow on the water, wave your fly rod around, wear white, and do that silly "Shadow Casting" thing, and you will have a hard time catching a fish.
The fish know what these things mean.....
I've watched fish, as dog walkers stroll by. They don't quit feeding. Walk up with a fly rod and they'll slide to the other side of the stream.
Fish don't think like we do, but they do learn.
Fish can live six or more years, and some are caught and released dozens of times.
This "bad practice" teaches them how to avoid us.
If they get better at the game, you need too as well.
If you don't believe me, try being in their shoes, so to speak.
I always say, we wouldn't be an obese society, if we had to check every fork full of food, for a hook.
Maybe I should publish Bigflys' "Hook Diet"!
(Lose twenty pounds in a week! Just stir a couple of hooks into every dish.)
Next time you seriously go fishing.
Try holding up a mirror up to profile yourself.
I bet you start catching more fish.

Jim

Blog entry #1
Confessions of a profiler.
I spend my days profiling fish, bugs, and fishermen/women.
Every living thing has an operating profile. Can't be too cold or hot. Must get food periodically.
Reproduce, find shelter etc....
When you know the parameters of a critter, you can predict, to a large extent, where it will be at a given time, and what they'll be doing.
We all do this to some extent, (whether we know it or not.), because this works on a level beyond normal thinking. We glance at something, and decide what it's about in a second.
Good, bad, interesting or not. One's personal motivations, experience, comes into play.
I think this is related to fight or flight responses, and has been expanded to everything else.
In my case, it's all about Fly Fishing. Does this place have fish? If so, what are they eating, what is they're activity schedule.
A policeman's experienced judgement has held up in court cases.
Mine holds up almost every day.
Sure a policeman uses a tail light out, as an excuse to pull over a person while driving late at night, but it was a momentary glance that told him things didn't look quite right.
Whether you are trying to catch a "bad man", or a fish, the process is much the same.
The better I get at profiling fish, the better a guide I'll be.
Hope the fish don't lobby to stop this. Fishing would get a lot harder.