On a fishing trip last July I had one of those humiliating days. My brother and I were working on a lake in Ontario one afternoon into evening. He caught several big northern pike in a row, while I caught nothing, despite using the same lure and casting to the same kinds of spots.Then a cold front came and the fish shut down, although we kept at it for a few hours. When all was said and done, I had fished hard for five hours, in Canada no less, and could not catch a single northern pike. It wasn’t that
