I think the right thing would have been to grab all the stuff and row it upstream to the nearest group of bankies. I picked up the bait box and sweater a couple of times wondering if we should stick those in the boat as well. I figured I'd leave them since they could sit on that gravel bar for days without anyone touching them, but if I left rods on a gravel bar they'd be gone in an hour and I'd never see them again. About the time I hit the superhole I realized that leaving them wasn't going to be much help cause they'd have to put their boat in to get the baitbox, and sweater. I didn't see any fish, and regardless of circumstance I'm not going to be in possession of any fish that aren't on my punch card.

There's not always a lot of high level thinking going on after I've worked all night and then try to fish all day without any sleep. I'm sure zachery isn't going to care about anything I'm going to say or write, as he's convinced himself already. But what I say and write on the internet, is what I say and do in real life. The few hundred hours, and couple grand I spent each year on fishery related charitable activity was real. Instead I think I'll spend that free time robbing banks and using my driftboat as a get away vehicle.

Jake, keep acting like a pecker and you'll never lose that cherry of yours. Unless of course there's some other reason you're not interested in girls?