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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (15955)	12/30/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (3) of 71178

One of my first entrepreneurial ventures was to sell frogs to kids for the local frog jumping contest. I was around 13 years old. The frogs hung out in a place that we kids called the "lagoon", actually a back channel of the Lake Tahoe Keys. The goal of course is to procure frogs that would still have the ability to jump, so jigging or vaporizing the frogs was not an option. Additionally, the really big frogs hung out in the middle of the lagoon on the vegetation, too far for a net. My brother and I discovered a novel way to catch the frogs....fly fishing. We would de-barb the hook and after much experimentation, we found that dandelions were very attractive to frogs. We sold the frogs for $5 a piece. But........that isn't the fun part of the story...... One day I went down to lagoon with my little sister (then 9 years old) to score some frogs. Since the way that you cast the lure in fly fishing (or frogging in this case) is to whip the line back and forth, letting a little bit more on each whip until it will land in the desired place, I had my little sister stand way back by the woods...she choose to stand directly behind me. I was whipping my line back and forth (perhaps in an exaggerated mockery of a real fly fishing technique) and felt my hook catch on something on the back stroke. Assuming that I got caught on a branch, I gave a few firm tugs. My sister's whimpering caused me to actually look behind me to see on what I might be stuck. My sister was leaning forward with this large dandelion covering her eye. Seems that I had hooked her eyebrow. No real damage done and thank God I had de-barbed the hook. It did cost me all of my profits from the frogging to convince my sister not to tell our parents.

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