Uncle Pete was over visiting us yesterday. And as was his custom, he was\ndown by the dock trying to hit the fish on the head with the lure. So.. on\nthe last cast of the evening, he finally hits a small pike. The pike, as is\nnormal for them, heads directly to the lily pads (you know.. those stupid\nterrible pretty things that Joe intentionally planted!)… Anyway, the pike\ndeftly weaves his way in and out of foot thick lily pad stems. He ends up\nbeing stuck too far out to reach with the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uncle Pete, being the thoughtful, intelligent, resourceful person that he\nis, did not stoop to using the portable phone to call somebody up at the\nhouse for help. Nor did he use the laptop that was on the board to IM\nsomebody for help. In his wisdom, he decides that the great white fisherman\ncan handle this on his own. All he needed to do was swing the pontoon boat\naround and that would put him within reach of the pike… Which is still\nusing the opportunity to knit himself a scarf for the winter by winding the\nline around the lily pads…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now.. pulling an 18 foot pontoon boat around a 90 degree turn with one hand\nholding a fishing pole is not a simple matter. But.. our Uncle Pete finally\ngets it lined up.. And even remembers to tie it back to the dock so that it\ndoesn’t float away. He’s felling pretty proud of himself about now… Just\nget the net, lean over, and pull fish and a mess of lily pads up and\neverything will be cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For those of you who have not seen our pontoon boat, it has a “sun deck”\nbuilt up in the back, over the motor… So, Uncle Pete was actually about\n4-5 feet off the surface of the water when he was leaning over to net the\nfish. So he had to hold on to the little railing that ran around the back\nas he leaned WAY over to net the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, one thing that Uncle Pete forgot (for a while at least) was that the\nlittle railing is attached to a cover. And this cover is designed to be\nopened by somebody standing in the boat, so it tilts up and OUT. Uncle Pete\nremembered this as he leaned over far enough so that his weight caused the\ncover to open, which in turn shifted even more of this center of gravity\nover air (which is not a good support material). There is NEVER a camera\naround when you need it, because the sight of Uncle Pete doing a two pi off\nthe back of the pontoon would surely have won the America’s funniest home\nvideo award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also learned that you cannot fold a fishing pole in half without breaking\nit… And that glasses are impossible to locate at the bottom of 2 feet of\nmuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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