From Sundays to sunrise casts: Michael Pittman Jr., Randy Moss find 'flow' on the water
NFL stars like Michael Pittman Jr. call fishing a ‘flow state’ stress reliever — but also love the simple, brutal scoreboard: catch ’em or don’t.
When Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. isn’t making catches on the gridiron, he’s attempting catches on the water. While Pittman was growing up in Southern California, he and his cousin raided their grandfather’s tackle box for fishing poles and snuck off to a nearby lake.
They couldn’t always nick supplies from their grandfather, but they were resourceful. Sometimes they dug up worms for bait and built makeshift rods out of sticks and used line. “We’d actually get caught most of the time and get yelled at, and then we’d find ways to sneak off and do it the next day,” Pittman said.
“We didn’t know exactly what we were doing. We just knew if we could find hooks and we could find line and worms, we could catch fish. ” As Pittman grew older, he used birthday and Christmas money to buy his own fishing gear.
He fished lakes, oceans, even sewers. He continued fishing throughout college at USC and when he was drafted to the NFL. This offseason, Pittman was with his brother on a fishing trip in Uganda when he found out he’d been traded from the Indianapolis Colts to the Steelers .
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