Bordeaux gon fisin him!

[thudpucker]

This is a true tale, although somewhat edited for language and content.:D

Ma cher, did ah got onto big mess fishing last summer night one time ago me!

I hook em out de line wid live minners, one by anudder.

Dat's all did, now whar is dat jug got to?


Some while ago one bobber jiggle down n up by his ownself.

Hmmm, him can wait I say. I'm busy rat now. I took anudder pull an begin to work my way to dat line.


I'm too slow me, by de time I got dere it was swimming someware off yonder.


Sho nuff a small Bluegill done tooken my minnow. Him hooked good hisownself, flippin roun on de top watta.


Hooboy, bad luck him. A big Sac-a-lait maybout a fo pouner grabbed that little Bluegill, by de hed! Chomp inside Woohoo, my lucky day.. de hooked minner hole em all.


Aw but den.. While I was looking down at that tangle in de water, a Thirty pound Channel cat came up and cotchd em both.

Now what a mess dat is. Aw but dis aint over yit!


My trot's only Fo poun tes line, and that big Cat was heded for de bottom with my Sac-a-lait, and I caint cotched him stopped down me!

Ahm still hol on sumpin so I go overside, in de watta an grope around in de Gorilla Grass feelin for my line.

Cotched im boy ah do, an feel it back up to de Cat's mouf.
I pet him liddle bit. It works wid my bes dog.


Bein real carefull to keep from excitin him, and cotchd him up by de Gills.

Well Cher, dat Cat was scratching and clawing like him knew what I was after, an by de time I had a good nuff holt onto him to keep him while I went up for some air, I was dang near bleeding to death.


Oh that air was welcome. I really needed it worse den I need dat Catfish.


Blood brings odd bed partners, and sure enough, right after everybody don tole me we din't have no gators in dis lake, here I am treading water, out of breath, and looking a gator right in de teeth!

Too far from de boat, and too tired to fight, I just laid over backwards, and said a light prayer. Real loud.


About that time de Cat came to, enough to splash around a bit, and de Gator changed his mind about me and went for de Cat.


Now, Worm can fulla brains dat I am, I got me out de lake an back into de boat. Pronto. But now I cotched de Bluegill, de Perch, de Catfish, and a Gator, all on this Four lb line.


Aint nobody gonna believe this I says to myself, so if I snap this line while trying to get this mess in I’ll jus be one more big liar.


So I began to nurse this tangle back toward de Boat, slowly slowly. De Cat and de Gator are still jousting and don' notice me pullin, till dey in arms reach and cotched dat Gator by his tail and wid one big Yank dey all comin in. Dey all in de boat.


Now de Thrashing done began in earnest.

Somehow dey all got loosed apart in de boat.


Now I got loose line catched up on everting and fish a floppin and stuff gettin knocked over and dat Gator bitin what e kin git to, and me just a steppin and a hoppin trying to keep my skinney laigs away from in front o dat Gator, and midst it all I stepps on dat slippery Catfish and spits im out from under my foot and up over de side of de boat an out!



I fell backards over dat Gator, and he roll hard. Sling hisownself off de udder side.

Somehow kicked dat Perch wid my udder foot. Now him let go of de Bluegill and fly up in de air landing back in de water on de side away form de Gator. Holy Smokes Andy!!!


I look down in de boat. One fine big mess dat. line all on everyting, bait spilled, Goatabag all wet, Gorilla Grass slick as snot in de bottom of de boat, and dere in dat Grass is de one little Bluegill Flippin and a Floppin.

You go on, ah say to him, someday I be back for you!


Wal I says to myself, You done had a fine day fishin so far. You still alive and got one big tale to tell.

Now you better get de res o' dose line out de water befo you cotched some more fishin to do.

Better to live and Fish anudder day!



So I carefully mark dat spot wid a big X on de side of de boat, an got me back fo some supper of Armidillo or Possum.

I put a Big X on de side of de boat, so I know dis spot if I see him again, and go fish summers else!

[Lowellhturner]

Kinda puts me in mind of what pilots say about landings..."If you walked away, it was GOOD enough!"

[Boone1]

Thudpucker, I think U R full of it. Hee hee, but it is a good story.