The Requisite Fish Story
When my friend Tom and I went backpacking on Isle Royale we didn't bring a lot of food and even planned to catch fish for a few meals. We brought a lot of lures but didn't have leaders and we hooked a lot of northern pike but they broke free because of their sharp teeth. So we were fishing one of the inland lakes on the island, and I cast my lure and it wasn't a very good cast, it went more up in the air than out on the lake, and it made a really big splash, and I already had hooked a pike but when I got it near shore it broke free. My friend Tom had come over to help me land the fish since he had already lost a couple near shore. So I said "Wow, that was a big one, like 3 feet long". Tom said, "No, more like 26 inches, maybe, at most." So we argued about that briefly, and I was muttering "at least 3 feet", after I had tied on a new lure and made another cast, which was also a poor cast that went more up that out, and it made a big splash, and I had already hooked a pike but this time I was able to reel him in. And It Was The Same Fish! My other lure was in his other cheek. And I measured the fish, and it was almost exactly 36 inches. So I turned to my friend Tom, and said, "See, I told you it was 3 Feet long. He just laughed, and shrugged his shoulders.
When my friend Tom and I went backpacking on Isle Royale we didn't bring a lot of food and even planned to catch fish for a few meals. We brought a lot of lures but didn't have leaders and we hooked a lot of northern pike but they broke free because of their sharp teeth. So we were fishing one of the inland lakes on the island, and I cast my lure and it wasn't a very good cast, it went more up in the air than out on the lake, and it made a really big splash, and I already had hooked a pike but when I got it near shore it broke free. My friend Tom had come over to help me land the fish since he had already lost a couple near shore. So I said "Wow, that was a big one, like 3 feet long". Tom said, "No, more like 26 inches, maybe, at most." So we argued about that briefly, and I was muttering "at least 3 feet", after I had tied on a new lure and made another cast, which was also a poor cast that went more up that out, and it made a big splash, and I had already hooked a pike but this time I was able to reel him in. And It Was The Same Fish! My other lure was in his other cheek. And I measured the fish, and it was almost exactly 36 inches. So I turned to my friend Tom, and said, "See, I told you it was 3 Feet long. He just laughed, and shrugged his shoulders.
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