Well, I is the nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday, October 4, 2022.

I am the first to catch a fish in the sea, and I am the first to catch a fish in the sea.

I don't have the first idea of catching a fish in the sea, because I can't quite come to terms with the reality of getting on a boat and sitting there for five hours waiting for something to tug at a string,

that align, that has a hook, and a worm, and bait, and then you bring it in, and then you first have to start dealing with preparation, and flaying, and cutting, and oh, I miss that bone. Sorry, don't choke.

Never been the greatest fisherman. Never been the old man in the sea.

I tell you what I am though, is someone who pays attention to stories that peak my interest IQUE. There was a wildlife fishing tournament in Ohio, and here's how this works, apparently.

What you do is you go in a boat, you spend a couple hours and say, who can catch the most pounds of a certain type of fish?

Come back, you get it weighed, like in jaws with the big shark, and whoever gets the most pounds wins. What do you win? Money.

So there are people who take this stuff seriously, right? They practice, they've got machines where they can see where the fishes are, and then they've got special state of the art home, deep bow built with your own saw.

You can make like fishing hooks or poles. I mean, everyone's got amazing poles. Fine. So you're in Ohio, you start fishing, you come back, and all of a sudden, you have the biggest walleye's ever.

It's amazing. People are owing an eye and cheering, and they go to the big weight thing like an economy where you stand on a big scale, and one of the court gestures says, I'll guess you're weight within five pounds.

Sure you will. Did you know I just had an 18 ounce flit? Now try to guess it. Or do you know that I'm wearing spanks? Or even better, I've got a pillow prosthetic on my belly because I want a free stuffed animal.

It's called cheating. So they get off the water, these walleye fishermen. I'd like to keep them nameless, but I don't think I'm going to.

How about a last name of run in? Is that real? Do you think? Damon run in is the guy's name. I'm just getting it's actually Jacob run in. Yeah, a little Broadway humor on a random Tuesday at approximately 1144 if you're in granite.

Get out of the boat. Put the walleye's on the scale and the head of the tournament says, wow, that's one hell of a walleye. Congratulations.

And then a couple of the other anglers said that doesn't seem possible to have a walleye that heavy and they said, let's trust but verify they do a little slit right in the walleye's gizzard.

And out comes a bunch of lead weights and chicken tenders or Kentucky fried fish. And then the walleye's didn't waste so much anymore.

And guess what happened? They're going to get arrested because they committed fraud.

These guys were so interested in winning the walleye tournament that they thought the best plan was to stuff the walleye and then hope they didn't get caught.

Is that the theory that cheaters use in general? I got to thinking about this last night as I was talking to Coke a pre show last night this morning thinking about the steps people take to gain an advantage.

There was an expression. It was very unfortunate that we would say inside the clubhouse. If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. Forget the fact that it's bad grammar.

And we were not exactly referring to anything other than sign stealing maybe tapping the garbage can from time to time.

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