Friday, May 14, 2010

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.