Huckle Goes Fishing
One day Huckle and his friend Sonny decided to go fishing. Sonny packed all of his fishing supplies, and Huckle brought a can of worms. Sonny drove Huckle to the lake and told him this lake has many, many fish.
Huckle had never gone fishing before, so he was full of questions.
"Do you think we will catch a lot of sharks?"
"No, there are no sharks where we are going."
"How about whales?"
"No."
"Well, how about eels, or stingrays, or lobsters?"
"No, none of those."
"Well, what we catch?"
"Maybe some fresh-water trout."
"Oh. Are we going to feed the fish to the worms?"
"No, silly. We use the worms to catch the fish?"
"I know, but I thought we should reward them for all the hard work by letting them have some fish guts."
"Huckle, the fish will eat them. We put the worms on a hook so the fish will bite."
"Poor worms."
When they arrived at the lake, Sonny loaded their gear onto his rowboat and then they rowed to the middle of the lake.
Sonny gave Huckle a fishing pole.
"Now see the string hanging from the pole," Sonny instructed Huckle. "There is a hook on the end. See how I am putting the worm on the hook."
"Then what do we do?"
"We throw it into the water."
"Like this?" Huckle said as he threw the whole fishing pole into the water."
"No, not the pole!" Sonny yelled as he reached to retrieve it. "Only the line with the hook."
Sonny then showed Huckle the correct way to cast the line into the water.
"How are you going to cook the fish you catch, Sonny?"
"I will fry it with a frying pan."
"I am going to put my fish at the end of a stick and roast it like a marshmellow."
Sonny laughed at Huckle's idea.
"How come we haven't caught any thing yet" Huckle asked.
"It might take some time. You need to be patient."
They waited, and then they waited some more.
"Sonny, umm, this is kind of boring."
"I don't think they are very many fish here. Let's try that little cove up ahead. Perhaps they are all over there."
They rowed the boat to the cove.
Sonny said, "Huckle, I forgot to bring my glasses, so I cannot see what those signs along the shore say."
"Well, you know I cannot read that well."
"I know, but please try to read it to me. It might say something important."
"Hmmm...I know. It says donut fish. Hey, there might be some donut fish here. I wonder what they look like. Do you think we will catch any?"
"That's strange. I never heard of donut fish," said Sonny.
"Maybe they have holes in the middle of them. Let's try to catch some."
They both cast their lines into the water and waited. After some time, they saw a boat coming towards them. It made a whistling noise and they saw lights flashing from its deck.
"Oh no," said Sonny. "The police boat. They are coming towards us. I wonder why."
As the boat drew closer, Sonny and Huckle could see the police looking at them angrily.
"Wait a minute," said Sonny. "Huckle that sign did not say donut fish. It said do not fish."
"Whoops. Oh and bet the other words did not say 50 dollar fin."
When the police boat came near, the police said, "What do you two think you doing?"
"Well," said Huckle. "We thought we were fishing for a donut fish with 50 dollar fins, but that is because I cannot read that well and Sonny forgot his glasses."
The police look at Sonny and said, "Mister, you will have to pay a 50 dollar fine."
"I know," said Sonny.
After the police left, Sonny was not in much of a mood to fish anymore.
"Let's go home, Huckle."
On their way home, they stopped at Mike's Fish Place and had fish sandwiches. Huckle saved a piece of his fish to give to the worms.
"Well," he smiled. "At least the worms had a good day."
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