The wife, lily, and Myself thank you for the compliment I DA. Good luck to you if the HM cabin did it’s magic. I thought that EJ was walking kind of funny when I got there Saturday morning.
I had a great time both days with everyone I got to see agian. Every year I get-to-know people even better at the get-to-gether, sounds like a pitch for next year. Anyway Thanks to James and the crew for setting up a great ARM event and GTG.
Also, James thank you for the heroics witht the pliers and string. For those of you that didn’t hear, I was fishing from shore and caught a Northern. I didn’t have pliers on me and Bill Cadwell said that he had them in his boat. So as I was walking to use them to remove my lure, the fish shook and I got my left index finger hooked. It went past the barb and so I was now conected to the fish. I spent about 2-3 minutes trying to figure out how to hold the fish still, get the treble out, and get the fish loose. After no luck I started to holler for some help but not very loud since, (While all of this is happening the littles are comming back in for lunch). I happend to see James walking to the piers to help bring in boats. I let out another yell but by this time I am getting weak and sounded funny. From what I was told I was white as a ghost. Anyway James comes over and asks what’s up I said I am hooked and he sees that I wasn’t just talking about the fish. He gets the fish off and back in the water, cuts the line, and we start to walk to a bench so I can sit. I start to get woozie and need to stop after a step. I breathe deep and try agian. I continue to walk toward the tents and then my ears fill up. I can bearly hear I feel drunk but I focus on getting to the tents and breathing. I get to the tent where everyone is eating lunch and I reallize I need to hide this so I don’t scare the kids. I tuck the lure, still in my finger, under my arm and walk to the end of the tents and sit. James comes over and clips the treble of the lure. Then he proceeds to snip off the other hooks, then he takes out a string loops it around the hook in my finger and yanks. But not having much sense of reality at this point, I bent my finger with the tug. So James reminds me to keep my finger straight and the 1..2..pull and it pops out with very little pain. I also thank the ladies whom helped cool me down with water and took care of my wound. Now it is all healed up and I was able to have a great time the next day with everyone at the GTG.
Thanks to the gentleman whom let me join him after the rain for some trolling, I’m sorry I forgot your name, but I enjoyed getting out on the water vs. sitting on shore.
Thanks to everyone!
Matt TH Flounder Budny
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