Fishing and Time
Tommy Detmer rows during an early morning lake trout session in the Adirondacks. Rowing in zero-zero fog is a bit unnerving in a small canoe.
Words: Jim Scheuermann. Photos: Tim Romano
Sooner or later, if you are fishing or thinking about fishing, you are mixed up with time—the “real” time of daily life within the bounds of opening and closing days, past time filtered through memory or constructed in imagination, archetypal time, or the time we loosely call eternity.
On a random lazy afternoon in late summer you fish indifferent to any results. You aren’t wasting time because you have all the time in the world. On more intentional days you fish to make time for yourself and your kids, or for a friend who is going through a rough time.
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