Nuff Said!

It’s been a long winter, at least by recent standards.  Shoveling every other day, warming up the car to get going, it’s all getting old.  That darn groundhog said spring was just around the corner.  Looks like a pretty big corner!

There are ways to round this corner, to make this corner time fly.  We pretend and envision, we prepare for that corner to turn.  It’s a bit a of mind warming we have to do.  I like to do these mind warming things.

One good thing is Tackle Box Night in the kitchen.  Any fisherman’s tackle box gets tangled and disorganized during the fishing season.  A night in the kitchen with this tackle box mess is pretty fine.  Hmmm… these wax worms have seen their better days, well they’re dead moths now.  Toss ‘em!  Sure got a bunch of hooks and leaders.  They start out in plastic bags, organized by size.  Then they escape as used.  Tuck ‘em back where they belong.

And in this mess, I find the lures from days gone by, like the Dare-devil spoons I got from my Dad’s tackle box.  They got hit by many a Northern Pike, the ones that made it back into the boat.  There’s a couple Rapalas, the wooden minnow that dances across the surface.  In this mess, I also find… the church key.  It’s a bottle opener and opens cans, too.   Mine has ‘Pabst Blue Ribbon’ engraved upon it.  Probably older than me!  It’s good to have a couple bottles of beer, ones with a top that cannot be twisted off, along for a day of fishing.

I have fishing stringers, stringers to gather your catch, in this tackle box.  Most times they are not real strained.  A good picture will have a stringer full of the day’s catch.

Tackle box night is best done with friends, who also long for ‘The Opener’.  We can all tell our fishing tales.  Boy, do we have big fish in our tales!

So the tales of fishing, while organizing our tackle boxes, will help us turn the corner to spring.  And then, the new tales begin.
Nuff said!

by Mark Sannes