Who made fishing so great for you?

[Backbeach Jake]

Joseph William Francis. He took my brother Bob and I fishing when we were 5-6 years old in North Truro across from the Cold Storage Plant. Taught us to use pork rind for Horned Pout and Snapping turtles and tought how to color our language when a 'Pout stabbed you. Taught us clamming and how to sharpen knives and filet fish that he got ftom the cold storage, he was an engineer there. Never took us salt water fishing though it was right there. Before the cold storage closed, I learned that it was a giant chum machine that called all kinds of fish. Old time Pottygee, learned a lot from that man.