There’s an old saw that’s been attributed to Henry David Thoreau, about how many people spend their whole lives fishing without realizing it is not the fish they are after.
I was thinking about that on the last Saturday of April, opening day of Michigan’s walleye season in most of the Lower Peninsula, after a kind of tough day on the Tittabawassee River. I was with Greg Sochocki, a long-time buddy, with whom I fish as often as I can. Sochocki and I have opened the walleye season together for more than 20 years. Lots has changed over that time.
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