I was hoping that no one would ask the types of questions that you just presented, Paul. Here's the truth:

The horse was a dead spawner. I stumbled across him while I was out hanging with my yak-herding friends last winter. We had tried a local stream for the hatchery run of ponies and, as normal, I lit up a big ol goose egg. So that the trip wasn't a total waste, I went and embedded my Vision hook into its maw (damn, slid in like butter into that rotting flesh! Those hooks are sharp!) and snapped the photo. I cropped the photo so you wouldn't see its rotting ass.

I'm sorry that I've misled you all into believing that I had caught this horse fair and square. Hopefully with all of your help I'll be able to one day catch my own horse. Thank you for your help in this difficult situation.

Oh, and catch a fish on that lure for me would ya? It shouldn't have to wait on me to be useful. Not that I don't want to fish with ya again, as it was great having you around to unhook that lure from the tree in the water. I'm just going to be buying my license in Washington this year and I'm waiting for April.