Re: things i've learned about cigar smoking # 2

On 8/31/05 4:47 AM, in article 3nljm8F21c55U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Alex W."
<ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> "dan" <liv2padl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:mCfRe.5411$z2.5409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> so i'm sitting out on my the dock this morning, smoking a wonderful,
> aged
>> Connie 73M. it's about 80°, there's a slight breeze, the fish are
> jumping
>> here and there, the belted kingfishers are diving, the osprey and
> eagles
>> flying overhead and life is great! and along with everything else,
> i'm
>> dabbling at fishing. dabbling i say, cuz i'm really not taking it
> seriously
>> .. hard to take it seriously when i never catch anything. i've got
> a few
>> lures but the fish aren't enthusiastic .. as usual.
>>
>> so my cigar burns down to a nub. it was a great cigar and i'm about
> to flick
>> the nub into the river ... ashes to ashes and like that ... and i
> get this
>> idea. i seem to be full of great ideas this morning. hey, i sez to
> myself ..
>> "i wonder what a fish would think of a connie nub". nothing to lose
> right,
>> since i'm already not catching any fish.
>>
>> are ya wondering what happened? well wonder no further. i put that
> nub on a
>> hook and sinker and sailed it out into the river. it sat there on
> the bottom
>> for maybe 5 minutes and then, whamo ... the line started playing out
> and the
>> drag was screaming and the dogs were barkin' and truth is, i wuz
> gettin'
>> abit excited my darn self.
>>
>> so i reeled that line in and guess what. no, c'mon ... guess. ok,
> well there
>> on the end of my line was a catfish. now i'm not talkin' 'bout no
> small
>> frypan size catfish. i'm talkin' 'bout a 2 foot catfish that musta
> weighed
>> 10 pounds.
>
> So that's what Hutch did wrong ...
> :-)
>
>
>
Ouch.

BTW, airmail package winging its way to you, Alex.

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