Eddie Puts It on Jerry

For the first time in about a month, my friend, Jerry, and his weekday fishing partner, Eddie, headed to the Northwest River today to try their luck. They made their first casts at 0540, and 15 minutes later, Eddie was bringing this nice 1-10 keeper bass in the boat. He caught it on a white worm.

"Over the next four hours," said Jerry, "we found that we didn't have a lure in our tackle boxes that would land another bass. We did, however, land three nice pickerel, of which the largest was 2 lbs. 13 ozs."

Despite the lack of fish, both anglers still had a good time. Noted Jerry, though, his partner took great delight in doing a little "trash talkin'" on the way home today. You see, this is the first time Eddie has, in Jerry's words, "whupped me, with his three fish, compared to my one."