Episode 6
The Big Catch
Don't ask why I was fishing. I never had any luck
fishing, I would be 23 before I would catch my first fish, and 65 before
catching my second. The first time my daughter Heather went out she caught five,
that's not from my DNA. She was ice fishing though. I tried ice fishing once, I
was too tired too fish after cutting the hole for the canoe.
It was summer, we were all at the cabin at Regina
Beach, I was fishing from the shore of the little beach. If at first you don't
succeed. I was at around my hundredth try, I hadn't even had a nibble, I had
caught about 20 pounds of weeds. This try again business had run its course. My
little sister had come down to get me for lunch. We made our way up the trail to
the road. As luck would have it, bad luck that is, my line let out enough to
have the hook catch in some bushes. I only realized it after walking another 20
yards or so, I was too tired to go back so I figured if I tugged it, it might release, good news, it released, bad
news, the hook came out so fast it imbedded itself in my leg. Darn it. Now, I
wasn't complaining, I simply said, calmly, I might add, "Look at that, I've got
a fish hook stuck in my leg". Being a redhead, my little sister never really
tanned, but her little face was especially white when she saw the hook in my
leg. She panicked and took off like an Olympic sprinter, well, not exactly like an Olympic sprinter, she was screaming at the top of
her lungs, Olympic sprinters are generally fairly quite. It sounded like maybe the earth had caught fire, folks started
pouring out of their cabins to examine the reason for the commotion. I stopped
and looked around hoping they would think I was doing the same. It didn't work,
their attention focused on me, I looked for a hole to crawl into, all there was
was a rabbit hole and I had been told it was best to stay out of them. I thought
about hiding in the grass but it was only two inches high. Next thing I know one
of my great older sisters has scooped me up and is carrying me to the cabin. Dad happened to know a doctor who had a cabin up the hill, the doctor was more than happy to look at his little boy. The doctor
told me I was foolish to walk with the hook in my leg because it caused it to embed deeper in the muscle. I was about to tell the doctor where he could put the hook when I heard dad say...
Have a great day
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