Salt - 1 & Bob - 0. You are right Salt, I was going to watch the second half but as my post times will show I didn't go in there. With crazy 'Sheed suspended for his heroic towell throw into Sabas' face in the Laker game and my general Blazer interest dwindling faster than the Dow, I skipped it. BTW, 'Sheed didn't really mean to hit Sabonis; he was trying to throw in the white towell onto the court to surrender the game. ... Anyway, my first story ....

.... Back in the late '70's I went out of Depot Bay with a friend in only a 15' pram (like a flat jonboat). Over the ocean swells to find the silver bite. Believe it or not we wound up at least 3 or 4 miles offshore in that little 'dingy' trying to find a school of biters. Well, my friend did find a biter ... it was a very heavy sluggish fish. I thought it was probably a sunfish or something like that. It turned out to be a 6' blue shark that grabbed a trolled plugcut herring maybe 15 to 20' under the surface, way out there. Hard to believe that it just let us tug him toward the boat without a lineburning run! While the shark swam around a few feet away we pondered what to do - try to kill it with a paddle and drag it in to filet or just cut the line. It was decided for us as the line just finally broke on a shark tooth. It just slowly finned away, as if it hadn't even felt the hook. - RT