title: That's a Keeper: Reflections on Life from a Bass Fisherman
author:  H. Norman Wright 
description: In That's a Keeper!: Reflections on Life from a Bass Fisherman, H. Norman Wright provides pithy reflections on God, fishing and the spiritual life. The writing can be awkward at times and some of the messages hackneyed (you've got to be persistent; anger and fishing don't mix; older is better), but he also reels in some more valuable insights. Wright's meditation on the "accomplishments" of fishing, for example, serves as an important reminder in this fast-paced world that achievements aren't everything. Sometimes, he points out, wasting time is not a waste of time. <BR>Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  _Dalintober Moon_
  
  
  This short story was written to help the Dalintober Beach Regeneration Fund.
  My thanks and best wishes to James MacLean and the rest of the committee.
  Thanks, too, are due to Fraser McNair for the wonderful photograph on the
  eBook. To see more of Fraser’s work go to
  [www.jfmcnair.com](http://www.jfmcnair.com). Special thanks to my old mate
  Eddie Mitchell, now in Adelaide, who prompted an idea to form in my muddled
  brain.
  
  
  _Empty Nets and Promises_
  
  
  I would like to thank my old friend Andrew Robertson, who comes from a family
  of Campbeltown fishermen. He kindly helped me to understand the background and
  feel of fishing in the sixties, based on the experiences and stories of his
  late father, himself the skipper of the Campbeltown fleet. He followed in
  those formidable footsteps, becoming a fisherman himself. Few of us can
  imagine the dangers and discomforts faced by these men in the course of their
  daily toil. Tragically, many lost, and still lose, their 