A fisherman takes off on his 14 foot aluminum boat into the big, bold, blue waters of Lake Superior. The warm July morning had the man all by himself out in the bay. He takes off into the big, bold, blue water.  The cold water of the Chequamegon Bay in Ashland, Wisconsin splashes up and down his boat. 

He whips his new lure into the big, bold, blue water. Rip, rip, pause…. Rip rip, pause…. Rip ri– yank! The fisherman whips his rod back to set the hook into the mouth of the fish. While fighting with the fish, it jumps out of the big, bold, blue water. The water splashed up into many droplets of the cold Lake Superior water that surrounded the fisherman. The man had just caught an iconic Lake Superior Smallmouth. The man was examining the fish with his heart pounding out of his chest.

 He realizes that this is his new personal best. The man pulls out his tape measure that has measured many big fish before, but this is different. This fish was like a football. The tape measure read an astonishing 23 ¼ inches. This catch really meant a lot to the fisherman. He has been fishing the bay since he was a kid and he has never seen a fish quite like this one. This was one he was going to remember forever.

 The man sets the fish back into the deep water, shaking it back and forth to revive it. He lets the life changing fish swim back home into the big, bold, blue water of Lake Superior.

For my stylistic devices, I chose alliteration, dash, and simile. I chose alliteration because I really wanted to get the point across about how big and bold the waters of Lake Superior are. Seeing Lake Superior in person is completely different. I chose to use a dash to develop suspense in the sequence of the man retrieving his lure. I chose to use the dash in the middle of the word to show how sudden the fish eating the lure was. I chose to use a simile because the shape of a football is very well known. It shows how fat and round the fish was.