Gone Fishing - II

Yesterday, the whole clan went over our friends house to do some more fishing. Have you ever heard the phrase it pays to be lucky?

After a good 15-20 of our bait in the water, the next door neighbors come out and decide to join the fishing outing. Our friends house does not have a deck at present and I am slated to do some heavy lifting to improve that situation in the coming weeks, but the next door neighbor does.

After co-fishing, Joe (the neighbor) yells out... throw some chum in the water to lure the smaller fish in and the bass will follow. Now the only word the actually registered for me was chum. What the heck are we fishing for that requires chum. To me, chum refers to sharks and shark fishermen... not bass fishing on a pond I could walk around in 7-8 min. Without a moments notice, my friends shouts back.. what are you chumming with? I am sorry, but even worse than using the word chum is to use it in connection with BREAD!! Yes, sir they chum the pond with bread... after a good solid laugh... we continued to fish.

Would you know it... FISHING RESULTS:

7-0

We lost. Plus they reeled in a snapping turtle. My eldest broke the news to me gently... Dad - we did not catch anything. Why are you using worms?!?!