BIG FISH!

Here’s an old, but true story that I’m sure my grandson will get a kick out of. 

I was about 3-1/2, maybe 4 years old. For sure not in school yet. We were at a very large cabin on a lake somewhere in Minnesota one weekend. 

Obviously, I don’t have a clue where or whose cabin we were staying at. 

I DO remember that besides my parents, there were at least six other adults, and maybe three or four other kids, older than me. 

On the first day of fishing, all the adult men, (uncles and my stepfather), went out in their boats to fish and drink beer, and the adult women (my aunts along with my mom), stayed with us kids at the cabin. 

Have you ever listened to a group of women talk? While they were all drinking? They all talked and talked, while playing cards, and listening to music on the phonograph as it played their favorite music. 

I remember being upset, wanting to go fishing with the men, but someone decided that I was too young to go with them. 

That evening, after the men had returned with their catch and stories of all the Big Ones that got away, I did something incredibly smart for a four year old kid.

I took a piece of fishing line about six feet long, attached a hook, and skewered a large worm on said hook. 

I then went out to the end of the dock and tied my fishing line to the dock and dropped the hook and skewered worm into the water….and left. 

The next morning as soon as I woke up, while everyone was preparing to eat breakfast, I ran down to the dock, ran to the end, and pulled on my fishing line. As I looked into the water, I could see at least five or more fish swimming around this one huge fish. 

On my knees, as I pulled on my line, struggling because of the weight, all the curious fish disappeared, and that one huge fish just kept bobbing up and down as I was trying to lift this huge fish out of the water. 

I struggled a bit because the fishing line was wet, and it kept slipping through my hands. Then I wrapped the line around my left hand, stood up, and with one big grunt I lifted that Sunfish out of the water. HUGE FISH! 

I immediately started running back to the cabin screaming, “LOOK WHAT I CAUGHT, LOOK WHAT I CAUGHT!” 

My mom came running out of the cabin and I can remember her shouting something like, “OMG! Look at the size of it!” 

Now in the cabin, it was pandemonium as everyone was talking about MY fish. 

Here’s the punchline. True story. Everyone said, “That’s a record-breaking catch. We need to contact the Fish & Game folks and have them record this”. I remember someone also telling me that they wanted to take it to a Taxidermist and have it stuffed. 

I said, “No way! I’m going to eat my fish”. I did. I had my fish for dinner that night.  

Now, I’ll never really know if my fish was a record or not, BUT, I believe it was because I DO remember the weight. THREE POUNDS! 

Yes, I was there when one of the adults weighed it in front of everybody. THREE FRICK’N POUNDS! 

Today, August 23rd, 2025 it would STILL hold the record as the largest Bluegill Sunfish ever caught in Minnesota.

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