Here is a funny fishing story that happened to me just last month. My friend and I were fishing a small zipper lip in our area one night after school. We decided to take our new boat out and do a short float. We fished on down to the take-out which was about a 3-4 hour float. I hit one bright 8 pound buck in one of the last holes. I landed the fish and indeed he was hatchery so I kept it for that nights dinner. I was putting the fish in the fish box when I heard some odd noise, when I turned around my buddy had picked up my rod and tried to give it a whirl but ended up backlashing is to hell. I had to cut out most of it and respool on some fresh line. This took 30 minutes or so and by now it was getting dark. We floated on down to the take out and went and picked up our turn around rig. When we came back we were loading the boat when I truck drove by up on the road and laid on the horn as he went by. This seemed like just a friendly jesture but then he stopped and continued to lay on the horn. I didn't know what to think at this time. We pulled to boat out and strapped it down and broke down all the rods, etc... When we got up to the road I looked in the back of my truck to find the fish gone. I was pretty pissed at this time. I thought that the guy that layed on the horn was just pouring salt in the wound after he had taked the fish. I was about to get into my truck and head for home when I heard something growling accross the road. I went over there to investigate what the noise was. I then noticed this bright object in the middle of a pack of little black animals. I ran over to it and sure enough there was my fish. The neighbors had a farm and they must have had 15 of these little black rotwiller puppies that had climbed into the back of my truck and drug the fish into the feild and proceeded to yelp and paw at it. The fish was to big for the dogs to bite at but they had done a number on it with their paws. I laughed all the way home thinking how in the hell they got into the back of my lifted Chevy truck. They were only like a month old puppies or so. thought I would share that one with you. I have a few others if you want me to send them to ya.

thanks,
Andy Matthews