My oldest son took off for his annual trout fishing trip with his buddies today, up in Pendleton County, WV. He's hoping to catch that big trout he caught two years ago. He said it was a giant.
He couldn't get the hook out of it's mouth unfortunately, so he had to throw it back with the hook still attached (he's a catch-and-release kind of fisherman). Last year they went back to that same spot, and he caught that fish again.
He said he knew the fish in that river grew fast (South Branch of the Potomac) so he wasn't surprised that the trout weighed 10 pounds more than it had last year. But he wasn't expecting that the hook he'd left in the trout's mouth would grow--it was a big as an anchor, and that fish was just dragging it around with him.
He's wondering how big that fish is now, and if the anchor is still growing too. He's worried that it's made its way down to Washington DC and got itself caught in one of those fishy stories floating around there these days. Of course, with Katie Couric's rating problems, it might get hired on as a news anchor on NBC.
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