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On a car ride home from a weekend in San Francisco, the topic of what we’re going to do the rest of the day came up. It was a Sunday after all, we should do something fun and constructive. So i came up with the idea to go fishing. Seems simple enough right? How hard could it be for us to nab a few fish by the end of the day?

Apparently, very hard.

It was myself, Luke Wiles, Tom Johnson, Kyle Sorensen and Jeff Zywicki (or Jerry as he liked to be called that day). We decided to get some poles, and went with the cheapest ones. Grabbed some bobbers, sinkers and hooks too. Then we talked Wiles into getting a cooler for the cheap low price of 40 bucks. Gotta keep the beers cold somehow right? So far, so good on the trip.

Then it came to getting the worms and here’s where the problems started.

After about what seemed to be a dozen stores that were sold out of worms for some reason, we finally found some. We let Zwickyi go in and get em, and he comes out with 200 worms. Seems like finally things are picking up, but instead of checking what kind of worms they were, Wick decided to just buy ‘em.

So finally, we get to the pond a good hour after we decided to leave for this pond that was about 5 minutes away. We opened the worms and turns out that they were microscopic worms. So we had bait that was pretty much worthless. But we pressed on. Who cares right? Lets see what we can catch.

Well, apparently they don’t fish much in Canada because between Sorrie trying to cast on with a pole that wasn’t lined anywhere close to right, or Wick going 5 for 5 on cast snag ratio, they showed how skilled in angling they really are. By the time we got started and the follies of fishing were going, it was dark. We barely put a dent in the beer so the cooler was useless and no one even got a bite. We were rattled for sure. Then to make it even worse, we come to find out  the pond that we were fishing in, (the one I recommended, by the way) didn’t even have any fish.

My apologies boys. My bad. So finding out that fact just kinda rubbed salt in our fishing wounds.

I guess there’s a reason we play lacrosse and don’t fish for a living, huh?

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