Night Fishing

I went fishing last night with the visiting undergraduates, just off the pier here at IMS. I caught a little black drum, maybe 2 pounds. On the very last cast of the evening I hooked some sort of monster, almost certainly a shark, which took line off my reel and eventually broke me off. I never did get a look at it. I don't think I'll be doing any more midnight swimming out there for a while.

I've decided that there should be a word for the feeling you get while fishing that you may no longer have bait on your hook. Maybe a German word like schadenfreude or fahrvergnugen.