BadFisherman Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

Aunt Bea would fit right in! Sportsman all the way!

Rock Hound Loc: Southeast Minnesota

Reminds me of my Aunt Marge.

My Uncle George bought my Aunt Marge a brand new rod and reel to fish with him. A simple spin cast model.

He baited her hook for her and she asked how to cast it out. He said, "Just push the button and let go".

She did that alright . . . threw the entire rod and reel in the river (gone)! I was in the boat next to them less than 25 yards away and my Dad and I were watching and listening to the entire conversation.

It remains one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life!

True story!

Whitey Loc: Southeast ohio

That is funny 😁 I bet he actually showed her how to cast her next Pole lmfao

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

Really cute! Love that show!

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Funny story, Rockhound. My Aunt Marge was the exact opposite. More than my Dad (her brother), she was instrumental in my fishing education. She bought me a cane pole when I was 4 and showed me how to hook a worm and make that awkward swing cast. Caught bluegill and red ears very first day. Next day she took the bobber off my line and showed me where and how to catch bullheads on worms. Best visit to stay with relatives I can remember.
Last time I fished with her was in 2007, while back in Kansas for a huge (over 300 people, including relatives, in a community of only 600 !) birthday party for her 90th. We went out to the ranch (which, by then, she had sold) to the 6-acre pond next to the house, that Uncle Fred had put in, yes... for the cattle, but mainly so Marge could fish easily. Built a dock, brought in Bass, bluegill, crappie and channel cats.
Naturally, Aunt Marge caught the most and the biggest and with me and about a dozen grandkids and great-grandkids fishing, and her just having a ball, it just might be the best day fishin' I have ever had. Certainly the most memorable.... excuse me...got something wet going on with my eyes as I type this...
She passed in 2017, five months shy of her 100th, and in our last conversation we laughed about that day and all the fish we had caught together in 60 years. Quite the hardy rancher's wife (Past President of the Kansas Cowbelles, the female version of Kansas Cattleman's Association) and one hell of a good fisherperson.
I can just hear her now, had she witnessed Rockhound's Aunt throwing that rod and reel in, same utterance that she gave me when I got tangled and put a hook in my shoulder somehow, ......."For cryin' out loud... how in criminy's sake did you manage to do that ?"

Thanks for the memory jog, Rockhound.
R.I.P Aunt Marge....I miss you giving your little brother (my Dad)grief over his fishing skills !

Rock Hound Loc: Southeast Minnesota

Thanks for the story Fixor, sounds like she made quite an impact on you and many others!

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

That she did.
In her small town of Madison, Ks. there are like 12-15 churches, a highly devout community, for sure. On the Sunday of her party, each and every one had "Happy 90th Birthday, Marjorie !" on their reader boards, rather than a slogan or the sermon topic. Not at all surprising to see on the Methodist Church she had attended since birth, but absolutely testament to how much she meant to the community to see that message on EVERY CHURCH including the Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, various "holy-roller" Pentecostal types....and even the Missouri Synod Lutheran sign, no less ! My sister and some cousins and I drove around and took pics of every one....it was unusual, to say the least.
She was overwhelmed with her celebrity, while those who knew and loved her, were not....we knew it all along.

BadFisherman Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Here's the original theme song from The Andy Griffith Show...sung by Andy Griffith.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=andygriffithsingingdowntotheoldfishinghole&docid=608029161449923506&mid=FCE47A649463088B3168FCE47A649463088B3168&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

(This was posted previously some time ago.)

Rock Hound Loc: Southeast Minnesota

One of my all time favorite shows!

I have whistled that tune most of my life (still do), but had no idea what the lyrics were, let alone it being a fishing song!

I love it. Those lyrics are perfect!

Thanks for sharing!

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

I had no idea there were lyrics to that theme song…thanks for sharing!

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

While I have listened to many a "comedy album", from Cosby, Carlin, Cheech and Chong, FireSign Theater, you name it, absolutely nothing has made a more lasting impression than Andy Griffith's telling of "his day of discovery" when he sat down, after getting "a big orange" and found out...."what it was, was football".
Told in the manner that my Arkansas grandmother and her siblings used, that I cherish to this day.... naive wonderment combined with perfunctory observation, matter-of-fact pronouncements and just enough "tongue-in-cheek" slyness, that you hesitate to wholly believe, on occasion.
Proud to say that, along with my dad's family's "cowboy wisdom" and German/Scots background and my mom's family's "HillWilliam" * background, most certainly, Andy and Aunt Bea helped raise me.


*("yes.... we lived so far up a holler in the Ozarks (near Batesville), they had to pipe daylight to us so we would know when to go to school and church !.... but don't you dare call us 'hillbillies'.....we all 6 of us graduated from high school before the turn of the century (1900), three of us graduated from college and two of us have graduate degrees, we're educated, therefore we are "HillWilliams" !"....a humorous quote from my dear grandmother, who started her teaching career near Tallecqua, Okla., on a reservation, circa 1897, teaching native-American children English and "helping them" pick out Christian names and assimilate to the "white Christian man's" ways.....her "greatest misguided regret of her life" she often said in later life.
"We SHOULD have been SHARING our cultures, rather than using persuasive efforts to have them abandon theirs...I am ashamed at how little I know of theirs, and more shameless is how little I cared, at the time... please God, forgive me and the others for our arrogance and thoughtlessness".

Huge amount of wisdom was in that tiny 4'10" person !

BadFisherman Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Thanks for sharing that great story, FixorFish

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

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