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Darryl Weldy - Hillsboro, Ohio Michelle Gerard Joyce — Charlotte, N.C. I have so many it is hard to choose. I have spent (Formerly of Wilmington) many nights on the Ohio river fishing for catfish. While deep-sea fishing with my dad in the Gulf of There was one night, a friend and I got thereMexico, early a giant sea turtle came up for a breath ri next in the evening. We were prepared for an overnight to our boat. This happened more than 20 years ago, stay in the boat. We had our grill, coffee pot andand I remember it like it was yesterday.
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were prepared for everything. The day before,Like I had ¥ Comment ¥ Share gone to Wal Mart and bought a yoga mat so I could comfortably doze off on the back deck of my Kristi Jo Carson Slavens — friend’s bass boat. Washington Court House, Ohio When I was a little girl, my dad and grandma took We got out there, settled in and cooked our dinner. me fishing. Like a lot of little girls (and some After about an hour or hour-and-a-half, I started adults), I kept getting my line tangled in the wee getting sleepy, so I rolled my mat out on the back along the deck and was trying to figure out what to do if I got pond. a bite. I didn’t want to lose my poles if I fell Whileasleep I was waiting on Dad to help free my line, m and didn’t notice. grandma started yelling at me saying I had something. The pole was bending and I was reeling. I found an old piece of string about six inches in length. I then had the idea to cut the stringThen, into all of a sudden, a snapping turtle showed it head three pieces, tie each piece to a finger, then tieand thebegan hissing at me. I shouted to the heavensifand threw the pole straight up in the air. other end to my line so it would pull on my finger Dad went in after his pole, Grandma was laughing, I got a bite. and I was still jumping around screaming. All the time my friend is laughing like crazy in the front of the boat. I am not sure exactly how Dad muchdid get his pole back, but the turtle snapped the time elapsed, but it had been a while. I was fastline before he could get it in a bucket for — because I certainly didn’t want anything asleep and I was awakened by a sharp pain; itGrandma felt to do with it. like a tractor pull and my finger was the sled.
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Like ¥ Comment ¥ Share I manged to get the string cut from that finger, however, I had forgotten about the others when I grabbed the rod to set the hook and my other Kindra poles Kempke Landon — Wilmington, Ohio were flying everywhere and getting entangled.I Ihave two. One is when I was 12-years-old, my then cut the other strings and got the rods out of went on vacation to North Carolina and we family the way. went on a fish boat tour. Everyone put money in a I ended up catching the biggest fish by a I ended up landing the fish. It turned out topot be and a half inch. The man I beat was not very happy. blue-cat right at about 40 pounds. It was like
something out of a comedy skit, but I didn’t The losesecond my is when I was 8-months-pregnant, my rods or my fish. dad came and took me to Caesar Creek to fish and we ended up catching a huge fish. It was interesti Like ¥ Comment ¥ Share trying to walk around on the rocky bank and trying not to fall being pregnant. Angela Roberts — Goshen, Ohio Like ¥ Comment ¥ Share Catching the biggest fish of the week (of course with the help of my husband) at Cozy-Dale Pay Lake and winning the jackpot! Tom Little — Sabina, Ohio My favorite fishing memory was fishing with my Like ¥ Comment ¥ Share grandfather when I was about 7-years-old. We fished together at the Washington Court House city Scott Alspaugh — Washington Court House, Ohio park. I remember him teaching me how to tie on a Fishing with a top water frog and catching a hook 10- and the smile on his face. I wish he was stil pound bass. around to see me fish in my bass tournaments. He taught me how to be patient in fishing, and patien Like ¥ Comment ¥ Share in life.
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