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Personal Writing Fickle FishermanIt was an early Saturday morning, about 600am. I was Awake and dressedready to fish I had been preparing for the look for derby for about 1 month andwas ready to win. I got to the lake at about 630 and started to fish. As theday progressed more and more muckle showed up. Before noon there was no place tosit around the lake and people couldnt fish. Lines were being crossed andpeople were getting kind of mad. Beside me was an old, hardened flavour man whoi just ignored. whence finially i had a bite I looked at the line and instantlyjerked back the rod and reeled as hard as i could. I fought the fish for 5 or10 min and netted it up. Not a bad catch, it was only a catfish scarce it was fairsized.But the guy beside me didnt seem to think so he looked at it and gave alittle laugh and kept on fishing. I really didnt acknowledge what to think, was helaughing at something i didnt see or was there something wrong with my fish? Ijust disregarded it and con tinued fishing. Then as i was getting bored anddrowsey I heard a yelp and the old man shot up. He had a bite As he wasfighting it he started talking and telling me how to catch a REAL fish not theguppy in my bucket. As he talked and talked the fish got at hand(predicate) and closer andhe netted it up and took a look. The fish was about half the size of mine just nowit was a carp not a catfish. I gave a little laugh and continued and he triedto explain...."well you see boy, a carp is a hell of alot harder to hook than acatfish. Carp dont just eat everything they see, theyre very selective. So ifI were you I wouldnt laugh to hard just yet". I wasnt to sure if theinformation was legit but i really doubted it so I just went on with my fishing.It was getting close to weigh-on time so i had to get a better fish. Then theout of all the things that could happen, the old guy gets a fish on his line,and it was a big one He fought the monster and got it to shore and as he wasnetting it he fell in the lake. Not in the deep part, only waist deep but I