Fisheries liability

The waters of the Valencia Community among the most attractive in southern Europe for the fishing of height.

Sometimes, at social meetings, exhausted by active and passive football conversations, someone asks you and you practice some sport?

I think about it long before I answer: fishing. Because the most common reaction of our interlocutor is often to exclaim "Uy, how boring."

As a teacher of mine explained very well at school, ignorance is very bold.

The action of fishing is within the nature of man / woman. In his DNA. When we watch on television or on the Internet these reports of the great bears fishing for sardfish salmon we have the clearest example of how Homo Erectus began to practice fishing.

Today fishing techniques have evolved in an unimaginable way. Kevlar, titanium, graphite or fluorcarbon are materials that form part of the composition of most of the items sold in fishing shops. But at the bottom, in the tramoya of representation, the genome of fishing is still there, engraved with blood in the human soul.

Sailing on the "Audaz" with the great Pascual Durá is always a very pleasant adventure.

On the one hand the need for food search. On the other hand, the triumph over the prey. Release endorphins by catching the fish. It may seem brutal or tragic, but we cannot help it, it is within our predatory status. We're at the top of the food chain. We can't fight what we are.

And if you ever decide to compete and participate in some championship or fishing contest, you will only continue to deploy in a "civilized" way another of people's intrinsic characters. The struggle to be the dominant, the / the Alpha, inside the herd. Become the best, the strongest, the fastest, the best hunter, the best fisherman...

Fishing is for me something indispensable within life. Atávico.

As Joaquín Sabina sings, life passes like a hurricane.

We have to live it with passion.

Text and photos: Jordi Gómez López