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| Me and my cousin Edward "Bud" Tipton - 1951 |
This week's Throwback Thursday is 1951, when I was ten years old.
I'm pictured with my cousin Edward "Bud" Tipton (same age).
The place was the West Chester Fishing Rodeo, West Chester Pennsylvania.
Believe it or not, I won first prize for catching the biggest fish of the day. I caught a 13 inch trout. My picture was taken and published in the local newspaper.
Now here is the irony: I wasn't a fisherman. I had only fished a few time before, for a fish called "Sunnies". The fisherman was my cousin Bud. So who wins the fishing rodeo contest? Me.
Another irony, I've never fished since. I figured I quit while I was ahead.
6 comments:
Ron,
Beginner's luck, works every time. Fishing was something I could never get close to. When I was younger I tried with a friend both fresh water and salt water, never caught many fish and thought the whole thing was a waste of time. Most ironic was I hate fish. I don't eat it. So that being said, fishing was all the more, a big waste of time. Strangely I do like seafood, shrimp, scallops, lobster, etc. If it swims I won't eat it. Go figure.
Jack
Hey Jack, I don't like fish either! No kind of seafood, shellfish, shrimp or anything that lives in he water. We're a small club, we sea food haters. Include Pat in that club. As you say , "If it swims I won't eat it."
Ron
A 13" trout! I'll bet that made your day!
And I'm glad there's a seafood haters club...that means MORE FOR ME!!!
Peace <3
Jay
Jay,
You can bet I didn't eat that fish.😜
Ron
Hey Ron - I know when I was young I would sometimes have fish and chips. And even back then it didn't seem quite right. But that and some salmon and tuna fish sandwiches is all I could do. Now nothing. Can't touch any healthy sea weed either. Just all too fishy.
Pat
Pat,
Same here! Like you there was a time when I could eat a tuna fish (white albacore only) sandwich and my mother made some terrific salmon patty cakes. Today I can't eat anything that swims, nothing. Not even tuna fish or salmon. Once at a restaurant I ordered salmon and I almost threw up. Had to toss the salmon before I "tossed it". I don't like anything that even remotely smells "fishy." As you say "it didn't seem quite right."
Ron
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