[speaker002:] see uh I I have forgotten a few calls but um
[speaker001:] doing
[speaker002:] I I they called last night I think somebody tried to call I had got food poisoning uh Saturday night and I was spent the early hours of the morning and most of the day Sunday in the emergency room and I had just gotten home last night
[speaker001:] oh oh bless your heart
[speaker002:] and the answering machine must have gotten it because it just gets the last little bit of the you know the computer talking
[speaker001:] well yeah well well I knew that you were sick for our last meeting did you have that on top of the flu
[speaker002:] yes I had I was sick anyway and then I had to work most of the week and it really ran me down so the weekend I was going to try to you know recuperate
[speaker001:] oh goodness
[speaker002:] and then on top of that I had I I got food poisoning I couldn't believe it I was like what did I do push the self destruct button here or something
[speaker001:] bless your heart
[speaker002:] I couldn't believe it it was just miserable
[speaker001:] well if you're feeling better now
[speaker002:] well yeah still kind of am weak and shaky I just in fact tonight's my first solid food since Saturday
[speaker001:] um bless your heart
[speaker002:] but uh I mean they've got me on a bland diet until I kind of get back on my feet I'm you know had
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] a a boiled egg and a you know a dry baked potato which is kind of gross but you know
[speaker001:] um-hum well anything though to get some nourishment nourishment down you
[speaker002:] yeah exactly I mean because it's been saltine crackers and 7-Up uh for three two days
[speaker001:] um-hum um did you try to go to work today
[speaker002:] yeah I worked today I I just you know there working towards year end there's just so much going on that that you can't afford to be gone you know
[speaker001:] um-hum I know um-hum I understand
[speaker002:] so it's really kind of wild
[speaker001:] well you want to talk about fishing
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] and then maybe we can gab a little when we get through
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] all right here we go
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] Susan what kind of fishing do you like
[speaker002:] let's see uh the only kinds I've ever done are just regular you know fishing in the lake or I have actually fished for Brook Trout in Colorado but
[speaker001:] um-hum oh
[speaker002:] I've always wanted to go deep sea fishing but I've never I can't ever get anybody to to go with me
[speaker001:] yeah you almost need to get several to go it it's so expensive to rent those boats
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I that's I that's what I hear is you know that you it's not too bad if you can put uh like eight people on a boat then it comes down to not being so expensive
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] but I also found out some more about it and I'm not sure I would enjoy it I don't know that I would really like you know fighting with a fish for
[speaker001:] for umpteen hours yeah that you know takes a lot of strength for that
[speaker002:] hours you yeah I I
[speaker001:] I like the kind where I sit on the bank and watch my bobber and when it goes down I pull a fish in
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] that's the kind I like
[speaker002:] in fact that's the most successful I have ever I mean as far as ever ever catching a big fish that's how I caught one with
[speaker001:] um what did you catch
[speaker002:] um a a bass it was a well see I can't remember if it weighed three and a half pounds or five
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] five pounds or
[speaker001:] well that's a big fish
[speaker002:] I mean it was you know big I mean it was biggest fish I've ever caught in my life you know
[speaker001:] that's wonderful
[speaker002:] I was so excited you know I was like screaming my father was running you know he saw the fish go flying through the air and
[speaker001:] I've never caught one yeah oh
[speaker002:] that part of it was kind of I don't know
[speaker001:] exciting yeah
[speaker002:] I was fishing with a little light reight weight rod and we'd been fishing down behind there's a place on the back side of this dam of this little lake that we it's a little private lake that we water ski on a lot and
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and they have have the water they let water drain off the back side of the dam through just kind of a
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I don't know it's some kind of a little drain shaft or something and and it makes a pool and then it goes on down the little creek that they dammed up to make the lake in the first place and they were there's a little pond kind of a
[speaker001:] yeah um
[speaker002:] pool of water there that is pretty turbulent and it's usually pretty good fishing and mom and dad were fishing in there and something kept eating my minnows you know and I was getting real ticked off because I couldn't you know I wasn't catching anything
[speaker001:] yeah I know um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] so I crossed the little road that crosses the stream and went stomping down through the woods and where the creek runs on out there's a big old tree uprooted and laid over lengthwise in the water and I
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] thought to myself you know I mean this creek is about five feet across max and I thought you know
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I bet you at the end of those roots there might be something and so I had my little you know I couldn't cast because the tree's hanging over and brush and everything so I just kind of
[speaker001:] um-hum oh yeah
[speaker002:] held the bobber in my hand and flipped it out there in in and amongst the tree roots and it kind of went around in a circle and then it kind of went right below the water and then it went around and then it just went whom altogether out of sight altogether so I started reeling you know and it was stripping my line
[speaker001:] um-hum um
[speaker002:] as I started going I realized I had something bigger than than I was equipped for because I had one of these little ultra light you know kind of casting rods and I was like oh man so I was reeling for all I was worth and pulling you know pulling on the line with
[speaker001:] yeah yeah um