Whether you’re driving down the street and see a ledge that looks perfect, or a curb that should be waxed so you can slap a crooks, you can’t help but make a mental note of something that catches your eye that looks like a good skate spot. This is very similar to an avid angler driving by a river eddy, or a perfect looking current line close to shore on a back bay, or a beach front with birds hovering over the water. You get excited.

You can’t help but imagine what that spot may entail. What’s swimming there? Not everyone has the eye that a passionate skateboarder or angler might have. It comes with time and the knowing. Putting in your hours. To be good or productive at anything you must push yourself. Whether it’s dialing in that switch hard or figuring out what those fish want to eat, we set goals and work towards them. Skateboarding doesn’t come easy and neither does becoming a skillful angler. It takes a lot of perseverance to figure out the right technique in both fishing and skateboarding but if you really want it, you will overcome.

Some may tell you you’re obsessed. That may be true at times. But it’s more than an obsession. Sometimes you may pull an all-nighter casting into the ocean for hours with the wind and waves smashing into you. You may only hook up once and lose a nice fish and that may be your only hook up all night. Or maybe you drove an hour to a spot with a filmer /photographer to light it up and you battled all night and you got robbed a hundred times. It may be time to call it, but you know you will be back for more and you can’t wait for it.