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| A pike caught at Lake Puruvesi (Lake Saimaa), 17 July 2010. Foto Laila Alanen |
Holiday at Lake Saimaa. Here July is the worst month of the year for fishing, there are no big fish in our shallow-water bay anyway, and in the temperatures of 30 grades even the medium-sized ones retreat into the deep waters far away. Today in the middle of the afternoon a hungry 2 kg pike caught the Kuusamo Professor lure (make: red and black sawtooth pattern ideal for the clear water of the Puruvesi Lake) and put up a fight, jumping in the air. In July pikes are at their most ferocious as fighters. Pike is sometimes underestimated as a dish, but if you understand how to make it, it can be delicious. Enough to eat for eight.
The lure is also an image, a moving image, with an illusion powerful enough for a substantial catch.
Sigmund Freud's concept of art was basically Hamlet's The Mouse Trap: an artifice with a function to reveal - and catch - something fundamental in real life.
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