Re: A few to make you laugh

[RTS <gafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/13/2020 5:18 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> So I was back in the back of Island Lake the other day.  On the west end
> between the big island and the smaller island there is a little jut of
> rock sticking out.  Maybe a foot wide and foot and a half long.  As I
> round the corner to head between the islands while fishing I noticed a
> bunch of trash in the water and on the island.  What really got my
> attention was a single peanut sitting right on the tip of that little
> rock jutting out into the water.
>
> If you have ever been there you know how pretty Island Lake is.  Its a
> long tight channel in from the river and its all no wake so the party
> crowd rarely makes it back there.  As a result it rarely gets trashed
> like other areas.  I was a bit disgusted with all the trash so I dug a
> trash bag out of the locker under my seat and started dipping up trash
> with my landing net.
>
> As I was moving around on the electric motor scooping trash I noticed a
> ground squirrel up on the big island who was chittering away.  I'd never
> heard one make such a racket.  I figured maybe it had babies and I was
> getting to close so I backed the boat off a little to see what it would
> do.  It bolted down the hillside and grabbed that peanut.  It was so
> proud of itself chattering away happily standing there on that little
> rock point holding that peanut up like a trophy.  It made me smile.
>
> Then an explosion happened as a giant bass leaped over that little rock
> point swallowing the ground squirrel whole as he passed.
>
> At first I was just stunned.  Then in a second the shock wore off.  I
> dropped my net and my trash bag to scramble around in the boat for any
> kind of lure that might resemble a ground squirrel.  Out of the corner
> of my eye I saw some movement over by that little point.  A gigantic
> bass was nosing a peanut up on that little rock point.  As I realized
> what was happening he turned in my direction, winked, and said, "Shhhhh!"
>
>
You almost had me with that one...
But everybody knows, :Bass can't wink......

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*Rocky T. Squirrel, esq.*