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East Oregonian
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Reviewing 2021 with ‘fi nfographics’
LUKE
OVGARD
CAUGHT OVGARD
A diff erent
way to lay
out a year’s
worth of
fi shing
Fishing is such a visual
pastime that it’s hard to
imagine it through any other
lens.
While the sound of a fi sh
pulling drag off of a spinning
reel, the smell of cutbait, the
taste of salt spray in your face
when crossing the bar into
the wider ocean or that feel of
a wet fl y line passing through
cold hands all contribute to
its mythos, but fi shing relies
on visuals more than any
other sense.
Though I’m sure there are
niche corners of the inter-
net that off er unique tactile
alternatives, pictures of our
catch remain the currency in
most fi shing circles. Just as
the digital revolution made
cataloging and sharing
these pictures more viable,
the internet also made it
tougher and tougher for
anglers to stand out. Posting
half a dozen of your favorite
pictures to Instagram at the
end of each year might seem
unique and creative, but what
started out as a novel idea has
since been cheapened by the
masses.
So instead of posting a
few highlight photos and a
caption long enough to bore
legislators with all of the
results of my year’s fi shing
shenanigans, I decided to
shake it up a bit a few years
back.
Spotify launched its
highly popular personalized
infographics summarizing
individual listeners’ “Year
in Music” at the end of 2016,
and I loved the idea. They
named it “Spotify Wrapped,”
and it quickly became some-
thing to look forward to
every year. I loved the idea
so much so that I created my
own personalized infograph-
ics summarizing my “Year
in Fish” or “Fishcal Year,”
launching the graphics in
2017.
This year marks my fi fth
annual “CaughtOvgard
Finfographics,” and although
I may be biased, I think these
are the best yet. Since there
are eight infographics, and
they take up a lot of space,
I’ll wind the column down
here. As always, please feel
free to let me know what you
think. God bless in 2022,
and I hope your year looks at
least as good as these fi nfo-
graphics.
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