Go Fish: Because of what is on the line.

A few years ago I got the opportunity to go fishing with a professional bass fisherman. I must tell you that it was quite the experience. This guy taught me more about fishing in 2 hours than I had learned in a lifetime. I remember him telling me that during different climates, temperatures, water clarity and different wind conditions called for different bait. He explained that when the fish were not biting it was just a matter of what attracted them. I remember he switched bait and then it seemed that every time he cast he caught a fish. It was so much different than the fishing my father had taught me. I remember getting up very early in the morning to travel about 45 minutes to a friends farm that had 4 big ponds on it. We would stop by the bait shop and pick up crickets and night crawlers. We would then embark on a day of watching Bobbers, bob up and down. We would catch fish, throw some back and keep others to be cleaned later. You see this fishing is so different than the fishing that B.J. did. The fishing that we did was more of a luck of the draw. B.J. was very intentional about what he wanted to catch. He could almost be positive that a bass was going to be on the line. He taught me that there is fishing and then there is fishing with intent. This week we will begin a sermon on becoming fishers of men. We will talk about the strategies in who to fish for and how to fish. We will look at what it means to fish with intent. Join us as we go fishing.