Fishing with the Pros!
The Old Man on June 30th, 2008
I remember when my cousin Bobby, James and I would go fishing. Sitting quietly in the boat my brother would be mumbling something. You could hardly here him. I would say “James what are you mumbling about”? He would look around at me with this look on his face, and say, “I am talking to the fish!” We all started laughing. I ask Jim “do you really think that’s going to help?” he replied “of coarse when you say the right words that big one will bite”!. “Ok” I looked over at Bobby he gave me the eye rolling response I knew was going to be there. We busted out laughing again! I looked back over at James he had this big grin on his face from ear to ear. Ha ha! I asked Bobby “tell me, how do you catch those big fish”? “You have to hold your mouth right!” he replied. “Here we go again”! I thought to myself. Should I ask him how he does it? Why not? I might as well hear it all at this point! Here is what Bobby said, “You have to hold the left side of your top lip up, and then you hold the right side up, then you show all your teeth! Next you move your lips back and forth, you know from side to side. 
Only the big fish in the water can see you and they go wild when that happens! They bite anything that moves! And that Wendell is how you catch the big ones”! They asked me how I catch the big ones. Well here is the way you catch the biggest fish ever caught. They call it the Whopper. “I like to sing songs. When I start singing some of my best songs it’s the rhythm that gets to the fish”! One time I remember when I was singing the big fish started swimming around the boat they were so excited! When I said the word “Hound dog,” that big eyed Bass grabbed the hook and it was me and the Whopper. My singing was so good he jumped in the boat! James and Bobby were laughing so hard they almost fell out of the boat.
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to Mr. Bennett’s house and tell him the barn is on fire. The bad thing about it was I had my brothers pants on! It was a little hard to run while holding my pants up. Once we were at the barn, we wondered what should we do now? Ben ran to the house to get the Ford tractor and wagon. We started pulling water from the well, a bucket at a time it takes a lot of buckets of water to fill a fifty gallon barrel. There were three of us taking turns We were watching the barn burn and the flames from the fire were jumping very high. After three barrels of water, and trying to put the fire out Mr. Bennett said that’s enough water on the barn. Let’s just try and save the coal burner that heats the barn. A few of us threw water on it wile the rest went for more water. There was no way we could save the barn but we did save the coal burning stove. The last barrel of water we went for, I asked Ben to let me drive the Ford tractor. He said you are a little to short to drive the tractor. I disagreed! I told him “I can do it”! He said “ok” he was standing on the lift on the back of the tractor and we were moving right along. He told me stop at the well. I was trying! The only thing wrong with that was I could not reach the clutch with my foot!
