For as long as I can remember, there has been a single, constant and consistent thread running through my life. 

Fishing. 

I believe I was, in fact, born to fish, though why this should be so I have no clue, as neither my father nor any others of my close family were of the fisher breed.  It simply crept up on me as a listless six year old, with every expectation from all around that this would be yet another brief dalliance in the evolution of the boy....