The Fisherman

   
   "This is where the rubber meets the road..."

 
Once there was a certain fisherman who liked to talk alot... everywhere he went he told people about the principles of fishing: what it takes to bait a fish, what kind of baits and lures to use depending on the type of fish you were wanting to catch, where specifically to go and what time of year and what hours of the day are best for fishing... he would also talk about the best gear to use; suggestions and reasons to use them: lines, reels, lures, poles, hooks, nets, whatever else having to do with the tools of the trade...

The renowned fisherman would also host fishing seminars and travel the countryside, sharing his  reasoning of all the sound principles and logic of fishing... he would even use scientific evidence to prove that fishing, according to his teaching, was the best way to be successful at catching fish and everything surrounding it...

At his seminars and through his website he sold a book--more like a big, beefy fishing manual--that contained all of the information you would ever need to know about the concept of fishing; whether it be for trade or for sport... of course, this book was not written by himself, nor did he ever claim it was... he was merely a messenger and teacher, an honest man who dearly loved the ideas, practical concepts, and principles of fishing ... (did you ever know fishing could be so involved?)

But--there was one problem with this dude --  
 
     -- H E  N E V E R  FISHED...

In spite of all the talk of grandeur, the vast information he had collected and shared with people through the years on the subject, from his book and other fellow teachers he bumped shoulders with; he had not fished once in his life, all he ever said amounted to nothing more than hollow words--rhetoric...though he actually was sincere in his speech, his words were unsubstantiated...

Moral of the story:  "He talked alot, but did very little" -- that is -- he knew very little firsthand... though the information, as it turned out, was quite accurate indeed; an inspiring text with much depth bound within the pages of the book he studied and taught out of -- he did very little to indicate that his acquired knowledge from the book was worth having...
 
Thus the burden of proof that clung to him through the years weighed on his back and shoulders, until his muscles were numb and his knowledge just sat on his brain, stagnating...and rotting...          

   This ends the Story of the Fisherman who Didn't Fish...