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Hook, Line & Sinker

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. - Dave Barry

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.- Doug Larson

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope. – John Buchan Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good L-rd intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. - Chuck Clark

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau

If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business. - Alfred W. Miller

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he’ll figure it out. - Louis C. K.

The solution to any problem, work, money, whatever, is to go fishing. And the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. - John Gierach

You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

Jimbo from Alabama heads north to Minnesota to try ice fishing. He stops at a bait shop near a frozen lake and goes to get some supplies, including an ice pick. A few hours later, he returns for a second ice pick and wanders off. An hour later, he returns to the shop again, storms up to the counter and says, “Ice fishing’s terrible. I want my money back!”

The confused clerk asks him, “Are you not having any luck?”

Looking furious, JImbo replies, “Of course not! I don’t even have the boat in the water yet!”

Fishing Trivia

1. In 1959, off the coast of Australia, it took fisherman Alfred Dean 50 minutes to reel in a large white shark. This was the largest fish ever caught. How much did it weigh? a. 1,469 pounds b. 2,664 pounds c. 17,040 pounds d. 1,107,472 pounds e. What is a group of fish called? f. School g. Band h. Convoy i. Group

2. Approximately how many species of known fish are there in the world? a. 7,500 b. 22,000 c. 33,000 d. 105,000

3. Kiyoshi Kimura, also known as

The Tuna King, a Japanese sushi chef who runs several sushi restaurants, paid the most money ever for a fish when he purchased a 600-pound Bluefin Tuna in early 2020. How much did he pay for it? a. $300,000 b. $700,500 c. $1.2 million d. $1.7 million

4. Approximately how many fish are there in the ocean? a. 4 billion b. 27 billion c. 300 billion d. 3.5 trillion

5. Which of the following companies sells a fishing rod for approximately $13,000? a. Penn b. Fenwick c. Silstar d. Hermès

6. In 2020, Jeff Kolodzinski, a fisherman known as the

Marathon Man, earned a

Guinness World Record for catching the most fish from a dock over a 24-hour period. How many did he catch? a. 738 b. 947 c. 1,488 d. 2,645

Answers: 1-B 2-A 3-C 4-D 5-D 6-D 7-D

Wisdom key: 6-7 correct: I would give you one of my Hermès rods as a reward, but each of the 14 that I have match a different Hermès belt and I like fishing in style. 3-5 correct: Keep at it…fishing requires patience. 0-2 correct: You certainly have the mind of a 600-pound Bluefin Tuna!

Riddle Me This

There are 10 fish in a tank and half of them drown. How many are left?