I wasn't ever anyone's wife, but I was "well trained" in my teenage years
by a neighbor who had built a Jonboat for fishing. He and his adult son
would
allow (Tom Sawyer take note) me to paddle/pole the boat if I could keep it
an exact same distance from the bank at all times. This made very
accurate
casts a bit easier for them.
I learned a lot of lessons from the back of that boat. After I got good
at it,
they did let me rotate to the front to do some fishing too.
Thanks Jimmy and Peggy for triggering some memories of great times
from 45 years ago.
Gary Webb
Peggy Brenner
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Hmmmm, have I become untrained?
For many years I paddled/rowed the boat or canoe while Jerry fished,
silently at any speed and where ever. The I took up tying flies for him
to save money, then fishing to try the flies. Now we have a trolling
motor which I've never been taught to use. Maybe that ole motor isn't
as well trained as a good wife after all...
Peggy B
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> That fellow Sparse Grey Hackle was quite a character! I wonder if he was
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> "An outboard motor is a handy thing for a long trip to the fishing
> grounds, but what one needs for propelling a boat noislessly along the
> shoreline of a bass lake at one-half to two-thirds of a mile an hour -
> the proper speed for fly-rod fishing with bass bugs - is not an outboard
> motor, but a well-trained wife."
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