4-25 & 4-26 Bonus Fishing!

DON'T FALL IN!

This is what I tell everybody before we get into the river. It's a rule. It's the "stay warm so you can have fun" rule. It's an important rule.

 It's so important that from here forth it will be known simply as...wait for it..."The River Rule".  And seeing how "be safe", or as I now know it to be, "The River Rule" is the first rule on our trips, followed closely by "have fun" (which could really be called...wait for it... "The Fishing Rule"), you would think that this rule would be followed very tightly.

But sometimes, you just have to push the limits. You have to break the rules just to find out what the consequence will be. It's almost as if, possibly, you are afraid that you will follow so closely "The Fishing Rule", therefore having enormous uncontrollable fits of fun; that you must feel it necessary to perhaps sabotage "The River Rule" in order to minimize the effects of the uncontrollable, now super exploding amounts of ridiculously huge gargantuan tons of fun! (Wow! That was a long ( poorly ( I'm sure) punctuated) sentence. That hurt my brain.)

Relax, I understand. I still feel the need to take a dip in the river every so often (2 days ago) myself. I get it. I also sabotage my own "Fishing Rule". I don't know why we do it. But we do.

But that's not it. It doesn't end here. We get up. We get up and we rise to the tyranny of the slippery river bed and we become victors again.

You can fall, but you can't quit. So we didn't. You march on. So we did. Well we didn't actually...alright look, it was cold and he was wet. So we left.

They were done. But I told them no. You will not be defeated. You will rise again...tomorrow...(after you cancel your trip to the zoo and reschedule for next day) and you will be a victor again.

So we went back out the next day. I think they were a bit hesitant after that speech I gave in a Braveheart accent about not quitting, wearing nothing but a kilt and waders.

And the fishing turned out to be alright after all. We got in two hours the first day before all the rule breaking set in, so we fished about another 3the next day. I wanted to make sure they didn't leave with a bad taste (river) in their mouth.

I think they had a good time.

Be safe, have fun, and always follow the "river rule" a little more than the "fishing rule".

Tight Lines!