No, it isn't an earthquake or hurricane in the Galveston area. They have been through part of that. They are trembling because I have packed my rods and equipment and am heading up there early in the AM! Meeting a long-time friend, Charles Miller, so we can fish and simply enjoy each other's company. We met at Ouachita College sixty-one years ago. We worked together in churches for several years. We learned to fish salt water together when it was nothing to go to Aransas Pass and fish the shrimp boat basin when water would freeze on our lines at three in the morning. We never had a boat in those days but knew where and how to wade. Caught more fish then than I ever did having a boat.
This trip to Point Bolivar may be a bit like that. We are staying in the place a friend of his has on a canal and near the Gulf. I am really looking forward to the event and fellowship with Charles. That is what fishing and hunting should be about. Game and fish should never be the number one purpose in an outing. I know it isn't for me.
So, the Muse will be quiet for a few days, at least as far as this BLOG is concerned. I have written 901 of these little episodes since Charles Fake talked me into doing it with him. I know it is about time to close it out, since Andy Rooney retired from "Sixty Minutes". He WAS 92, however, and doesn't give autographs. I am not quite that aged and DO give autographs. He was also a War Veteran of WW Two. I was not.
Long ago a dear friend, Al Cave, (also a WW II veteran of the battle of the Bulge) gave me a sign I hung in the garage at Taft. I still have it. It says, "Fish tremble when they hear my name". I used to think that was macho and I liked it. I realized one day. however, their trembling was from underwater laughter. It's a bit different to chuckle under the surface of a lake or bay. Small tremors go out like a rock dropped in the water.
We shall see who has the last laugh.......
