Deep Sea Treasure Hunt

While I have always dreams of being an artist or illustrator, I have decidedly found my backup career--a deep sea fisherwoman. This weekend a friend took me out on a party boat to experience the delights of deep sea fishing off the Jersey coast and after one line drop, I was hooked. Deep sea fishing requires a bit of messiness (the bait is slimy and questionable) a bit of coaxing, (here fishy fishy), and a bit of hope that when that line reels in there will be something on the end. Now, frankly, I have little interest in eating whatever I pull out of the large pond, but feeling a touch piratey I sure enjoy the sense of treasure hunting when the line disappears below sight.
My prideful catch didn't amount to too much as I could never quite tell when something was biting but pulling up my first catch of the day, a starfish, was probably the most exciting thing I have experienced--nevermind that I was likely fishing on the floor of the ocean where the fish can't exactly get hooked...
So, two small sea bass and two sea robins later (those sea robins are U-L-G-Y) and a fisherman helping me pull them off (he reminded me of my Uncle Jack Brennan), I was enraptured. Sea fisherwoman for me.