Fish eight or more hours a day, sometimes seven days a week, year-round... about the only time you can't go is when the weather is horrendous.
Just think of how many fish you could catch.
Ed Shepherd is living that dream.
He fishes nearly every day and catches a lot of fish - maybe 10,000 last year. No angler in Virginia has ever caught and tagged more saltwater fish.
Shepherd recently won yet another "Top Tagger" award from the Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program - a cooperative effort by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
The program produced record numbers last year with nearly 160 volunteers catching, measuring, weighing, tagging and releasing nearly 32,000 fish in 10 species. Taggers insert into a fish a thin, plastic-coated wire with a tag number and phone number printed on it.
Catch a fish from Virginia's waters that has a spaghetti-like strand of plastic sticking from it? Chances are Shepherd, a Yorktown resident, put it there.
Statistics from last year for individual taggers were not available, but Susanna Musick of VIMS said Shepherd was again a clear winner. He also took home awards for most flounder and most red drum tagged, and for most tagged fish recaptured.
"I think it was in the area of about 10,000... a little more than that," Shepherd said. "My previous best was a little more than 5,000.
That's a lot of fish. Way to go, Ed!
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