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Date: June 04, 2008 at 22:35:11
From: Pete, [ool-435680fe.dyn.optonline.net]
Subject: Re: June 4th, 08 |
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Fish tales. Sometimes they can be a waste of time and sometimes they can be quite memorable. Like space and time its all relative.
My grandfather used to spin huge fish tales when I was a child and I really enjoyed them. The longer the truth was stretched the better the story.
When I was a wee lad we went fishing at one of the local stocked streams. Pop-pop with his fly rod and I with my zebco. Of course we didn't catch a thing that day. Now, Pop-pop and I fished quite frequently and quite frequently we didn't catch a darned thing. Sometimes a dace or an eel would hook herself onto one of our lines but never the trout we hunted. Grandma always teased and made fun of us.
On that day at the local stream my grandfather offered the gentlemen next to us $5 for a scraggly looking stocked rainbow. "Don't give him $5 for that," I declared. To an 8 year old $5 would buy an awful lot of baseball cards or plastic green army men.
Grandpa had enough of grandma's teasing that day and I have always stuck with Pop-pop and his story that we finally caught a trout together. I never cared that we didn't catch lots of fish together. All I cared about was fishing with Pop-pop and listening to his tall tales.
P.S. I've often pondered if fellow fisherpeople tell tall tails about bait and really big ones to throw others off the good places that fish well?
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