Now That's Luck!!

One year while out in our fishing boat on the Wolf River in Fremont Wisconsin, my step dad got a hold of a fish that he just couldn't handle. This fish or whatever it was took the bait on my step dad's hook and ran with it. My step dad who was standing up at the time almost fell out of the boat. He caught his self but the boat was rocking badly and he lost his grip on his fishing rod. I thought we were gonna tip over. The boat settled down and my step dad grabbed for his fishing rod but he was too late it went over the side. He grabbed one of the fishing nets we had and tried to scoop the fishing rod but it didn't work and the fishing rod went under..Found a picture online of a fishing net like what he was using.

 

 

He kept trying for a few more minutes but soon realized it was hopeless, his fishing rod was gone. It had sunk and who knew how far the attached fish had taken it. My step dad was not a happy camper for this fishing rod had been his favorite one. The following year we went back like always. There we were sitting in the fishing boat once again. My mom had made a joke about my step dad losing his fishing rod the year before and to make sure he didn't lose another one. All of a sudden my step dad got a bite on his line and he was saying "Oh boy this must be a big one!". He pulled and reeled and pulled some more. He had changed his mind about it being a fish and was mumbling about it being a tree branch. He was not a happy camper. Finally, he lifted it up out of the water. Much to our surprise, it wasn't a fish or a tree branch. It was the fishing rod he had lost the year before, now covered with river slime! We couldn't believe our eyes! What a fine catch it was!! The best surprise of all was that it still worked!! Made my step dad's day, week, month, year!! It gave him the bragging rights of the best catch ever, lol