Recently, we looked at games to play inside and outside. Today, let’s go on an angling excursion.
[Featured image above: Drawing of a fish bottle by Marianne Moore]
We can plan a trip to the Adirondacks…
![Postcard of fishing in the Adirondacks](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing1.png?itok=Pxzpg5iF)
You say you’re aiming for flounder?
![Drawing of flounder fish](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing5.png?itok=MRsOHNqe)
Not likely where we’re going.
We’re looking for trout!
!["Trout catch" painting by Dorothy Eisner](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing12.png?itok=Xld8G3iO)
Though Rachel Carson tell us “It’ll be Shad-Time Soon”.
![Article by Rachel Carson: "It'll be Shad-Time Soon"](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing6.png?itok=hggqIZiy)
We’ll make a stop at Mike’s Bait & Tackle,
![Mike's Bait & Tackle photograph by David Plowden](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing7.png?itok=fPC9khb_)
We’ll use all the tricks we learned from the father of catch-and-release fly fishing, Lee Wulff.
![](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing3.png?itok=0MJkvx3-)
We might run into Ernest Hemingway …
![Ernest Hemingway with fish](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing9.png?itok=EfCSW4IQ)
![Sylvia and Edwin Beinecke fishing on Lake Michigan](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing8.png?itok=gMRjN7LV)
But if we don’t land anything worth bragging about, we can try Rudyard Kipling’s advice on Dry-Cow Fishing.
![Cover of "On dry-cow fishing as a fine art" by Rudyard Kipling](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing10.png?itok=OzRZPsrF)
After all, our motto is: “I Wouldn’t Take Tuesday Off if You’d Show Me a Fish that Would Bite on Weekends!”
![Broadside print reading: "I Wouldn't Take Tuesday Off if You'd Show Me a Fish that Would Bite on Weekends"](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing11.png?itok=jHhU77yg)
Happy (Virtual) Angling!
![Blinky the fish](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image/public/fishing14.gif?itok=rCswEFV9)