Tyler's Fishing Case Study

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Tyler’s fishing hobby draft When it comes to fishing, the dream of hooking and reeling in the most stunning, astounding, and awe-inspiring fish anyone would see would be any fisherman’s wish to experience, including Tyler’s, who has fishing as one of his hobbies. This is until they realize how exciting fishing can also be by the way someone’s day would end such as when the catch manages to pull the person instead. From his past experiences, Tyler’s fishing would occur in either from fishing piers or through occupying charter boats. However, a particular case a couple of years ago involved when a young Tyler Hurd decides to step foot into one of many available canoes within a fishing area in Galveston where he could try fishing. …show more content…
“At first, I wanted to know how deep the water was before finding a good spot to fish, so I used a paddle to get an idea where the ground was,” stated Tyler while mimicking what he did with his pencil,” I was actually quite nervous too because it was a lot deeper than I thought as the whole paddle was in the water.”

After doing so, Tyler, floating in the calm waters in his canoe, would cast his fishing line towards the water and wait for something to get hooked. It later led to him casting the line into a different spot where he could hope there was a higher chance of getting a catch. He later did manage to feel a hook, but mentions that it “felt more like a rock than a fish”.

Tyler with a growing expression of excitement says,” The first cast didn’t lure anything, but the next one ended up hooking a rock, or so I thought it did,” as he pointed out continuing,” It moved from being very content to adrenaline-pumping really quickly right when I saw the line taking off away from

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