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Article: Confessions of a fish voyeur. (scuba diving) (Roving Afield)
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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There is the deer on the edge of the meadow, the squirrel in the bird feeder, the grouse by the side of the road. We watch, we are fascinated, and often we learn something: the rhythm of the buck's vigilant eat-look-eat pattern, the cadence of the squirrel's chatter, the nervous strut of the grouse before it flies. Over years of casual nature voyeurism, we take in lotss of information.
But what about fish? We see a trout rise, a bass splash, a tarpon roll. What we are observing, however, is fish breaking through the plane of their world into ours. With the right light and flat water, we sometimes look through that window to the fish's realm - a wondrous thing ...