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Personal Writing Fickle FishermanIt was an early Saturday morning, active 600am. I was Awake and dressedready to fish I had been preparing for the fishing derby for about 1 month andwas ready to win. I got to the lake at about 630 and started to fish. As theday progressed more and more people showed up. Before noon at that place was no place tosit slightly the lake and people couldnt fish. Lines were being crossed andpeople were getting kind of mad. Beside me was an old, hardened looking man whoi just ignored.Then finially i had a bite I looked at the line and instantlyjerked back the rod and reeled as hard as i could. I fought the fish for 5 or10 hour and netted it up. Not a bad catch, it was only a catfish but it was fairsized.But the guy beside me didnt seem to think so he looked at it and gave alittle laugh and kept on fishing. I really didnt know what to think, was helaughing at something i didnt see or was there something wrong with my fish? Ijust disregarded it and cont inued fishing. Then as i was getting bored anddrowsey I heard a yelping and the old man shot up. He had a bite As he wasfighting it he started talking and telling me how to catch a original fish not theguppy in my bucket. As he talked and talked the fish got closer and closer andhe netted it up and took a look. The fish was about half the size of mine butit was a carp not a catfish. I gave a little laugh and continued and he testedto explain...."well you see boy, a carp is a hell of alot harder to hook than acatfish. Carp dont just eat everything they see, theyre very selective. So ifI were you I wouldnt laugh to hard just yet". I wasnt to sure if theinformation was legit but i really doubted it so I just went on with my fishing.It was getting close to weigh-on time so i had to get a better fish. Then theout of all the things that could happen, the old guy gets a fish on his line,and it was a big one He fought the monster and got it to shore and as he wasnetting it he fell in the lake. Not in the obscure part, only waist deep but I