The darkest day around here was when Jack pulled the plug on our outdoor forum. This is *exactly* the type of topic that we were talking about every day in there.
I heard that there is a new fishing line made out of synthetic wool. I haven't tried it yet, but one of my friends did and he swears by it.
In fact, I haven't fished since a horrible experience about 3 months ago. My friend Joe was casting and he hooked the eye of my other friend Rick (who had drunk about 15 beers and was sleeping on the bow at the time). Well, Joe had also had his fair share of drink and he didn't pay attention to where his lure went. He started shouting, 'hey, I think I got a good one here'. He was yanking furiously on the pole and was very excited. He thought he had a monster tarpon or something similar.
I was facing the other way, but as I turned around to see what Joe had going on, my eyes were met with an explosion of blood that seemed to be coming right out of Ricks head. That's because it *was*. Well, long story short, Rick's eyeball ended up being the only thing that we caught that day. We took the eye (still on the hook) to the hospital with us. About 2 hours later, a somber looking doctor came out and informed us that when they tried to get the eye off the hook, the barbs tore up the eye so bad that it was rendered useless. Rick refuses to acquire a glass eyeball, so he wears a patch. He's always been fond of pirates, so it's all good.
