That's the lesson learned by another angler I read about who was at his wife's grandmother's house, practicing his flipping technique outdoors when the old man next door walked up and started a conversation. Before that conversation ended, the old man had offered some worms to the angler, who mistook the offer to mean live worms, so he just thanked him but said he didn't need any.
The old man, however, kept insisting that the guy come over and check out his worms. So, eventually he walked over...and was in total disbelief when he saw what the old man had hanging on the wall of his shed. There were four or five mounted hawgs that easily were in double digits, plus another 15 that would have gone 5 pounds or better.
"So we got to talking about how he had caught these," said the angler, "and the old man pulled out his tackle and started showing me all these antique lures they don't even make anymore, as well as some they still do--like the Jitterbug. I asked him how he had mounted his fish, and he told me 'with a pocket knife and paper-mache.' He went on to explain that he mounted all of them himself probably more than 30 years ago."
The angler subsequently took his father-in-law with him to visit the old-timer, and they learned that he had caught nearly all the fish on plastic worms and live spring lizards on Lake York in South Carolina. The ol' gent went on to say he was over 80 years old and didn't have any grandchildren to pass his stuff down to. He also said he couldn't fish anymore because of the arthritis in his hands.
As a result, the old-timer started giving the angler a little of his stuff each time the younger fella visited his wife's grandmother's house.
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