Gone Fishing.

[Sumpter250]

As a funny update after the third time fishing every muscle from my derriere to shoulders is stiff and sore from sitting on the ground while fishing-can't use a chair the bank is on a slope.
The sad part is a lousey 3 pound carp almost wore me out in our short battle royal! :oops: :cry:

It could have been worse. I remember at about ten years of age . . . I helped my Dad make some repairs to a "Sport Fishing Boat". His payment for the engine work, was a day on the Ocean, off Montauk Point, fishing. I was invited along, and managed to hook a fairly large Blue Marlin.
After several hours fight ( I refused to give up ) the line went almost slack, and I reeled in my catch. The head of a fairly large Blue Marlin. . . the rest of it had been bitten off by, according to the boat owner, a "rather large shark".
I have never gone "sport fishing" again, and I can still remember all too clearly, how many days I ached, after the several hours of trying to land a fish, that outweighed me by a hundred, or more, pounds.
All things considered though, I still miss the salt water.