A Fishy Story

It was the perfect day for a little fishing, but after a while I ran out of bait.

Then a few feet up the shore I saw a snake with a frog in his mouth, and frogs are good bass bait.

Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth, Igrabbed him right behind the head, took the frog and put it in my baitbucket.

Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit.

After thinking about it for awhile, I had an idea: I grabbed mybottle of whiskey (hey, don't laugh: it's the best part of fishing!)and poured a little whiskey in its mouth.

Sure enough, his eyes rolled back, he went limp, and I released himwithout incident. I carried on my fishing with the frog. Caught a bigbass, too!

A couple hours later I felt something brush my leg. I looked downand there was that same snake looking up at me. He had two frogs in hismouth.

Gary is a travel writer and photographer living in Sarasota, Florida. He maintains a website featuring some of his travel photos and markets a line of products featuring many of his photos.