"Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone. I shall remember that son of a bitch forever." Norman MacLean
I took this photo while sitting alongside the Puntledge River on a fallen cedar. The banks were dotted with fishermen, fishing lines crossed and tangled, Chum Salmon determined to ensure their continuity. This is one fish that will be remembered. Enjoy.
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I gave this a 6 and remember studying it for a while - including 'because of' your title. An excellent capture, that I had as an '8' at first, then I started nit-picking it ...
Of course I didn't have the benefit of your notes then, which now reading gives another facet to this image. Good quote too.
It was Jake's first time fishing, and when he hooked a monster fish, he didn't know just how much of a monster it really was, and when that red-eyed demon took his leg off at the knee, well...
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