Sunday, July 6, 2008

Do they even sell fish by the barrel?

Went down to Bennett Spring for the 4th of July (or explosion day for those in the mid-west). Bennett Spring is, first, one of the coolest places in the state of Missouri that I have ever seen. It is, unfortunately, also the most frustrating. Bennett Spring is a natural spring which feeds into the Niangua river, and the department of fish and wildlife runs a trout hatchery there. The trout from this hatchery are then loaded BY THE TRUCK-FULL into the spring. All around me people are pulling fish out of the water like God himself was compelling the fish to jump into their nets. I, on the other hand, must have propitiated the wrong fish gods. I caught one fish. One rainbow trout. In a stocked lake. Stocked daily. Crap. I tried everything short of jumping in the water and wrestling the fish to shore by hand (coincidently, there is a printed rulebook that forbids this) and still caught only one damned fish. Catching one fish in a stocked lake is like going home alone from a hooker convention. Its frustrating to say the least.

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