Monique and I once again served as judges for Wolverine Lake's annual catch-and-release fishing tournament. There are a few more catch-and-release fishing tournaments these days, but when it started up about ten years ago it was pretty unusual.
As I watched a big walleye recover from the experience, then swim away, it struck me that the catch-and-release tournament experience for a fish is astonishingly similar to UFO abduction stories. That fish was just swimming along, minding its business, when suddenly it was yanked into the sky, saw a blinding light, was held in captivity, was measured and examined, then it was released back into the the wild where -- dazed and confused -- it tried to regain its bearings.
Which leads me to my question. Could it be that UFO abduction stories are just the inevitable fallout of aliens conducting catch-and-release human tournaments? I dunno, but if you're walking along a secluded path one day and see a hamburger floating by you on the end of a line, my advice is to resist the temptation to grab it.
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We would like to have pictures of the walleye or at least some details about its measurements.
ReplyDeleteYeah, John! Fishing is serious business. Let's not wander off into philosophical musings and (dieter's) fantasies of Big Macs coming down from the sky! Let's get with pounds, inches, and a decent photo!!!
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