A fishing trip...

One day, a kid and his buddy went fishing on a local lake, about an hour into their fishing, their boat anchor got all tangled up in a submerged tree, when they finally thought they were going to have to swim to shore…

the hatch started…

let me know that my buddy needed casting lessons…

and should really be taught about barbless hooks…

…fluttered to the deck. The smaller of
the boys, Stinky, (as he’s been known since
the accident with the Port-o-let) quickly
snatched it up and …

and noticed that it was a crude map of the area around the lake.

the anchor was caught on the lakes drain plug !

bucketmouth

slipped the landing net into the tepid water.

…that he, Stinky Hotzinheimer, was only
seconds away from fame as he …

met the infamous Jimmy Huston, and told him he should really start flyfishing…

Houston giggled and said “boys, they ain’t no trouts in this here lake!”

But I bet you a dip of my skoal that you can find the world’s biggest…


A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That’s all you got?
That’s WHAT I got.

Small Mouth Bass

-Andy

[This message has been edited by vermont trout bum (edited 15 June 2005).]

so he tied on a yellow/black clouser minnow and…


A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That’s all you got?
That’s WHAT I got.

He casted toward a weed bed and let it sink a bit, jerk it, let it sink, jerk it and…

felt a vicious strike that almost pulled him over the side of the boat!

All he could do was watch first the flyline
and then his backing speeding through the
guides as Guss wrestled with the knot on the
anchor rode trying …

hard not to let go of his rod with his teeth when…

Houston’s cameraman was up in his face asking, “wathcha usin fer bait?, looked like a black mini worm with a yeller tail, zat rite?”

[This message has been edited by FlyingCarp (edited 15 June 2005).]