As you might have guessed, it did not start. He then opened the hood, kicked the tires and went for his cell phone which was dead, of course. Two miles out on the ice at dusk, no phone and with only one other truck leaving the lake, he desperately waved. To cut to the chase (long story short), upon seeing his hood up, the driver veered over and offered assistance. First, they tried jumping the battery, nothing. Then the Good Samaritan crawled under our senior’s truck and asked for a pliers or wrench to arch the “solenoid,” (the senior member called it a “cellunoid”) and it magically started. Come to find out, the Samaritan was a mechanic and wouldn’t take any money, but did accept our senior’s ten crappies as he had none. It’s all so much foolery which will probably be repeated next year. Wouldn’t it be better to look back on 2017 and notice instead God’s many blessings? Speaking of “pliers,” after fishing with Southern guys over the years on guided trips, we often catch ourselves saying “plarrers,” instead of “pliers,” and “goodun,” instead of “good one.” We also are taken on picaresque travels by the Southern people to Alabama red fish, Florida gators and “noodling” catfish in Mississippi. “Noodling” catfish is getting down and dirty into the muddy Mississippi’s banks and reaching into those caverns where catfish burrow and pulling them out by hand. Speaking of Southerners, several of our best customers are from North Carolina and what we feel is seasoned is bland to them, therefore, they bring up their own batter for shore lunches. In the cooking vein, we once put several hotdogs into the fry and said they were walleye “back straps.” The consensus was awesome raves. As a side-note, we have, indeed, fried the back straps of eelpout (lawyers) in butter, of course, and received high accolades. To continue in this fish culinary review, if you have fished Upper Red Lake (URL), you know that when the sheepshead are on the wallop, you are in for fabulous fishing. Although they are considered by many of us here in the northland a rough fish, they are over the top fighters and downright good looking in their own right. Even though we don’t have the space to do due diligence to 2017 in review, take time to reflect on your 2017and then act on the ongoing big water issues affecting Mille Lacs, Big Winnie and even success stories like Leech and Upper Red Lake. Focus on invasive species and what to do. Are checkpoints at landings working or has the proverbial horse already gotten out of the barn and is now the time to work on eradicating rather than preventing?
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