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I've never seen someone so excited over a foul hooked gafftop in my life!
For the record, I said we were on the "edge" of the middle of nowhere.
It was a blast watching Mish Fasterson tie, and re-tie rig after rig trying to keep up. He would dig deep into his duffle bag of 7500 different baits he got on sale when TG&Y went out of business back in 1984! Some of that silly stuff worked
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. I can still hear "drive the boat, I need to re-rig" ringing in my ears this morning. He finally settled down, and went back to his "secret bait", and proceeded to hook a couple dozen rocks.
If this were a tournament I would have slapped him across the face, and screamed GET A HOLD AF YOURSELF MAN! He looked like a cat on a porch full of rocking chairs!
When he finally caught up to my tally for the day, he settled down. Then he threw across redfish point, and all I heard from the front of the boat was"oh my gosh, oh my gosh...raise the trolling motor, no wait I need to pilot us out to sea...raise the outboard...move dog...oh my gosh I've got a monster...get the net...no don't...which way is south...oh my...what happened...where did my Blue Marlin go?...I swear I just hooked a Blue Marlin...did you see it?" I tell my friend that catfish can pull pretty hard, but he aint hearing me. He's convinced he hung a Blue Marlin.
I proceeded to tell my friend his "Blue Marlin" took him to school on an oyster bar. Then came the tears. My friend won't admit he was crying, but it was real quiet on that boat for a while.
After he dried up, and realized that it was not to be, he listened to reason. I had to go home to my family. It was after 8:00p.m., and I knew they were waiting for me. So we headed for the hill.
Yesterday was the day Mish Fasterson could have out fished me, but as usual it was not to be. That "Blue Marlin" would have put him over the top. He only tied me, which is a personal best for him.
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I for one am proud of him.
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