The new guy

[Hillbilly910]

Went fishing one evening in a small feeder creek to a large lake here in Indiana, well known for walleye and catfish(bet you can guess) and plenty of other fish to boot. I grew up on this lake, but growing up with out a boat tends to focus ones attention on bank fishing hot spots. Well one of the moderately poular places is a feeder creek on the north end, great crappie spot in mid april, but its always got good numbers of catfish in it. This eveing i had just finished working the garden over, figured i go catch a mess of channel cats for supper. Strolled on down to the crick, caught a dandy mess of 1-2lb cats, and was headed back for the truck when i passed the new guy. everybody can see the new guy, he is obviously out of place. He looked more fit for a world class fly stream out west somewhere, with his fishing vest and fishing hat with flies stuck to it, and his $100 hip wader. His $100 spinning rods and tackle box that you could bury the biggest of dogs in. I could tell by his waders he had been fishing already, and obviously had no fish to show for it. As i strolled up past the feller, he saw my stringer of 10, and asked,"what did ya catch them on?" As i was about to tell him, he jumped the gun and said,"ive tried livers, worms and minnows, maybe i should try some of this store bought bait,". Well before i could tell him that i caught every last one on worms, my mind shot out ahead of me, figured i might as well take advantage of the situation. I looked down and stammered a bit(keep in mind ive got my tore up over alls on, and my ragged cowboy hat, i looked like an extra from Deliverance), and said"well any of those baits should work ok", as i just noticed several stink bugs(sqaush bugs) crawling on a log, and said back"but if ya wanna know what really gets them catfish going is those stink bugs".
Im sure you can fill in the rest, but had the absolute time of my life watchin that city feller thread on stink bugs, and cringe every time he would hook one. I actully had to put my stringer back in the water and watch for ahwile, he honestly bought it, and smelled like death 3 times over. I finally couldnt take much more, told him good luck, left and headed out, and i know for a fact the guy on down the creek would fill him in about what just happend, cause he told me how to catch fish, with me holding the only full stringer anywhere in sight.

Looking back, yeah it was a bit mean, but Lord have mercy was it funny

HB

[skeeter]

Now that was outright funny! what did he say when u told him to use the stink bug? lol i bet he was like REALLY?