A Fishy Story

[Fly Rod]

It was the perfect day for a little fishing, but after a while I ran out of bait.

Then a few feet up the shore I saw a snake with a frog in his mouth, and frogs are very good bass bait.

Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth, I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog and put it in my bait bucket.

Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit.

After thinking about it for awhile, I had an idea: I grabbed my bottle of whiskey (hey, don't laugh: it's the best part of fishing!) and poured a little whiskey in its mouth.

Sure enough, his eyes rolled back, he went limp, and I released him without incident. I carried on my fishing with the frog. Caught a big bass, too!

A couple hours later I felt something brush my leg. I looked down and there was that same snake looking up at me.
He had two frogs in his mouth.

[FishermanTim]

That's a good one!

(One a personal note, I was fishing a small pond in the Weston area, and had caught a medium sized sunfish. As I pulled it to shore, a water snake shot out of the weeds and bit it. I stood there laughing, because there was no way in hell this snake was EVER going to fit that fish into it's mouth. I laughed, picked up the fish (still hooked) and shook off the snake saying "Man your eyes are definitely bigger than your stomach, as well as your head. Now go home!"

Thanks for the laugh!