| Show Fishing Novice Captures s Big One Unorthodox Style By TED KESTING We were visiting a friend who runs runs a boat livery on a Midwest take lake when we saw a ayoung ayoung young fellow doing the worst job of casting we had ever seen lie He was in a row boat about yards shore offshore and was spending at least nine tenths of his time picking out awful backlashes illS FIRST t time 1 m e 0 out u t asked Jason Lucas Angling Editor of Sports Afield Mag- Mag azine Second said Tom the lIv eryman lie fie was out once be be- before fore with a couple of fellows who knew a little about how to todo todo do it and he seems to have caught the fishing bug WE HAD forgotten him and nd were chatting when w we h ard arda a wild yell from out on the water The young city man had the oars and was Iran fran rowing in in lie He couldn't row properly splashed enormously and progressed iI iIa a crazy zigzag a landing net I me a big landing net quick A big fish broke my line and andI I want to go back and get him i WE LOOKED at each cach other I knowingly and by almost sus suo per human self control kept from laughing Hero lIere you area arel said r m and thrust his largest net into nto the mans man's hand liE TORE madly back to the shore got wet to above his knees shoving the boat out tumbled Into it t and started out in the same inept zig zigzag ag What's funny you may ask about an absolute dub at fish Ing making a complete fool of himself TillS Ill He was soon returning to shore doing slightly better rowing since he wasn't so I ex cited Ill He walked up to TOm Got a scale that will weigh this fish TOM TOl HAD lie He put the wail wail- eye on it The scale showed exactly 13 pounds It Vas the biggest walleye Ive I've ver knOwn of coming fr from m. m that lake though not nat particularly outstanding for that species The city man put the fish and his rod in his car cal and drove off It was some time before Tom could even say that hed he'd be damned We could only stare at each other and shake our heads IT SEEMED from the nOVo pov ices ice's brief remarks that the big plug bad hung in such fashion that it held the wall wail walleyes eyes eye's mouth wide open so that tha t it probably strangling if that's what you call what wha t happens to a fish that cant can t breathe At any rate It it ha had d stayed at the surface so so bus busy y trying to shake loose the plu plug g that it had let itself be netted |
