{"id":7857,"date":"2022-06-15T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2022-06-15T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:51:51","slug":"fishing-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/fishing-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7857\" data-postid=\"7857\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7857 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t fish but I enjoy watching others fish. I think it&#8217;s because the act of fishing seems so still and quiet to me, even when fishermen are bobbing in boats in the Columbia River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some fishing scenes I&#8217;ve observed that have stuck in my mind like oil paintings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man fishes for salmon from a bank of the Willamette River. He catches one, but struggles to reel it in. He takes out his phone to take a photograph of the fish and then the fish escapes the hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young Latino family fishes for surf perch on Nesika Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hornless man fishes for salmon from he bank of the Willamette River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young man fishes in the morning before work for salmon from a bank of the Clackamas River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A disabled man fishes for trout in a pond near the Rogue River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rose smoking a cigarette and fishing for salmon from the rocks of Netarts Bay. It was the first and only time I went on a fishing date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drunk men in boats fishing for boats in Nehalem Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homeless men in Seaside fishing for crab off a bridge over the Neacanicum River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drunk Russians fishing for perch off the South Jetty of the Columbia River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man fishes for steelhead in Fish Creek in a watershed ravaged by wildfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I had taken up surf perch fishing when I lived near the ocean. I was almost ready to a year or so ago, and then moved away from the ocean. It is unknown when I will return.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t fish but I enjoy watching others fish. I think it&#8217;s because the act of fishing seems so still and quiet to me, even when fishermen are bobbing in boats in the Columbia River. Here are some fishing scenes I&#8217;ve observed that have stuck in my mind like oil paintings: A man fishes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}