I have ESP… I can see into the future and predict things that are going to happen.
Why just the other day as my attention was focused on the fly fisherman in the front of the boat…
It all came to me in a flash…
Only moments before, in the back of the boat, I had hooked a fresh live bait on the line and cast it out before handing the spinning rod to the angler. (The wives of some fly fishermen do not fly fish.)
For some reason I turned around and saw that she had laid the rod on the deck beside the seat.
I said to myself: “Self”, I said… “a big fish is going to grab that live bait and pull that spinning rod and reel right over the side of the boat.”
Lo and be hold, as I stepped toward the stern of the boat to secure the rod, it seemed to grow legs and scramble accross the deck, leaped out over the water, and with a splash, dived into the depths of the lake. Just the way I had seen it in my thoughts only moments before it happened.
You know, I even amaze myself some times.
P.S. If anyone catches a large peacock bass in the area of the South Fork called Paper Bark… and there is a fishing line attached… and there is a spinning rod and reel attached to the other end of the line…
It’s mine.
Aloha,
Stan
So far (knock on wood), my ESP has been just a couple of seconds faster than yours. I’ve saved several rods as they were doing that jerky little dance toward disaster.
I also saw a bait fishermen save four heavy, cat-fish rods and his rod holder from Davy Jones. The rod holder had been made out of metal re-bar and held four fishing rods at different angle from the shore for almost a 180 degree spread. Since it was thundering and raining, the guy had gone to his truck about fifty away and was watching the rods from the cab. A big catfish (?) literally popped the rod holder out of the ground and dragged it into the water in less than a second or two. The fisherman sprinted into the water and grabbed the active rod just in time. To add insult to injury his line broke thirty seconds later. He did manage to retrieved his other rods from the water and the rod holder. I don’t know for sure what he had on his line but it had to be huge. I also don’t know what the cost of his four rods would have been if they had gone a little farther into the lake.
