Comments on: The Art of Not Looking Like a Fool (A fish story) https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jim Thomerson https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546403 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:00:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546403 My father told me I couldn’t expect to catch fish unless I put the hook in the water. Once you understand that, you are on your way to success as a fisherperson.

]]> By: Jared https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546402 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:03:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546402 Usually, the guides and the fishermen who tell tales are very difficult to tell apart, and occasionally, but rarely, the fishermen who tell tales get it right. On a similar note, some of the biggest fish are caught while trying for another species entirely, and the guides spend months trying to figure out how and why that happened.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546401 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:56:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546401 There are fishermen. Then there are fishermen who tell tales. Then there are guides.

]]> By: Comrade PhysioProf https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546400 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:29:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546400 I thought it’s poor form for fishermen to give away their secrets.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546399 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:24:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546399 The poignant thing is that most brook trout populations have been wiped out by the silent, brooding, thinking humans and their mills.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546398 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:21:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546398 A couple of years ago, I was standing with “the usual suspects” in PEI on the bank of a small tidal river off a large tidal river. The river was populated mostly by mussels and brook trout. The trout were tiny, 3 inches long at most, but they were everywhere. If you stood still long enough, they’d come within a couple feet of the shore.

So Kelly and I were doing that while the others looked at shells, poked at dead jellyfish, watched the antics of sand fleas, etc. The fish were all peacefully ignoring us. Then Kelly raised his arms, and they scattered. I did the same thing. Same reaction. Every time we tried it. Very different from the reaction to any other movement.

The poor things thought (or instinctively reacted as though) we were birds and posed a danger when we moved. They had no idea we were at our most dangerous as we stood there quietly and watched their behavior and thought about them.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546397 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:14:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546397 Elaine: Not as good as I’d like to be. That’s why it is “a fish story.” … But at least I understand that there is such a thing. (as avoiding looking like a fool.)

]]> By: Paul D. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546396 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:02:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546396 Fishing. A metaphor for life. Or, at least, that is what we shall name it while we are not catching actual fish.

]]> By: Elaine https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546395 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:58:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/24/the-art-of-not-looking-like-a/#comment-546395 But how good are you, really, at not looking like a fool?

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