Jeremy M. Praay wrote:

> 
> Ever use a Little Cleo?  They had topless dancing girls engraved on the 
> back, when I was younger.  Apparently, that wasn't very PC (or something), 
> and now it's gone from the new lures.  It was those small pleasures that 
> made life interesting...  ;-)  http://www.ustacould.com/lures/cleo16.jpg

Gawd I love the States!  That is a thing of poetry.


> 
> A pretty good pike lure, but like many lures with treble hooks, I mainly 
> caught weeds.  

Ah "weeds" so that's what it's called.


*sigh*  I'd rather be fishing...
> 
> 

(Or "hooking up" with Cleo.)

But yeah, me too.  The great thing about fishing is that when you are 
doing it, you *do* appreciate it.  Still, I should have appreciated it more.


At a certain point in time a farmer near to us gave up farming and 
instead dammed up the stream through his property and created a small 
lake, stocked it with fish, and opened a camping ground.  Myself and the 
kid next door used to sneak back through the bush and fish on the 
opposite shore.  One season, Gary went after Pike with an idea he got 
from a American sportman's magazine.  He fashioned his fish line into a 
little harness affair which he put around live frogs and which caused 
several hooks to lay along their belly.  He would then gently toss the 
hapless creatures a few feet out along the shore where they would never 
venture otherwise.  The shore was strewn with dead stumps and 
waterlogged limbs where the water met the woods.  Pike would strike 
almost immediately.  But he never hooked one.  He would always be left 
with a limp piece of frog in a tangle of fish line.  Though the live 
frog idea didn't work out, he did always catch more fish than me.

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