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We were watching Jeopardy the other night and there was a question about fishing that I knew the answer to \u2014 Claire was amazed that I knew it. I\u2019ve never been a big fan of fishing. Actually, I kind of enjoy fishing, I just don\u2019t like to catch<\/em> fish. Well I really don\u2019t mind catching fish, I just don\u2019t know what to do with them after they\u2019re caught. I don\u2019t like to clean or cook them. But after all that, I do like to eat fish \u2014 just about all kinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first time I ever went fishing was with my granddad \u2014 when I was about four or five years old. There weren\u2019t really very many places to fish around Maysville, Oklahoma. There were a few lakes, but they weren\u2019t readily accessible. My grandad took me fishing in the Washita river. My grandad didn\u2019t have a car, so we walked to the river \u2014 maybe a two mile walk. A long walk for a little kid, but at 4 or 5, you have no concept of distance. My dad was never a fisherman and thought us going fishing was kind of silly, but it was quality time spent with my granddad. My dad, as a joke, once sent the game warden out to get us because we didn\u2019t have a fishing license. It was a funny idea, but my granddad knew that he was old enough and I was young enough that neither one of us needed a license.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the dictionary, a fish story is an exaggerated or incredible story, so my \u2018fish story\u2019 probably doesn\u2019t qualify for a true fish story. When Dave was little, I often read some bedtime stories from a book of Aesop Fables. I\u2019m not sure I remember all the details, but one was about a fisherman that had no luck fishing one day, but caught a very small fish. The fisherman was about to put it in his basket, when the fish said, \u201cSpare me Mr. Fisherman \u2014 I\u2019m so small it\u2019s not worth while to take me home. When I get bigger, I\u2019ll make you a much better meal.\u201d But the fisherman put the little fish in his basket, saying, \u201chowever small you may be, you are better than nothing at all. 
The moral of the story is a little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in expectation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So even though my story about fishing doesn\u2019t really qualify as \u201cfish story,\u201d it\u2019s the only one I have. But everyone should know how to fish\u2026 as the old saying goes, give a man a fish and he can eat for a couple of days, but teach him to fish, and he can sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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