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




"dan" <liv2padl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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 ...
:-)



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