Day Off

 I like to think that I have a pretty good work ethic, sometimes overly so. Yesterday, however, a friend asked if I wanted to go out on Cayuga Lake and fish for lake trout – 'lakers.' I went through the usual internal arguments about whether I had the time or could afford to miss the shop work, but in the end the fact that it's summer won out and I seized the opportunity.

The method was decidedly old-school: a box built around an old Victrola motor and a spool of several hundred feet of 21 gauge copper wire with a hook and spoon at the end. The mechanics weren't without hitch, but we got it figured out mostly and ended up with 2 good-sized trout each.