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Landlocked With 6 Strings: How Do You Say Salmonid?
Posted by joey on May 05, 2005

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I picked up Mr. Fantastic, as they call him in Cumberland farms, around 3:45 for some afternoon fishing. “Meatball what’s happenin?” was the greeting I got. We loaded up my car and headed west towards the only water that was not blown out. This spring has brought a lot of rain raising the water levels to extremes thus making it nearly impossible to fish some rivers. We showed up with no one in sight, the sky had just cleared from a passing shower, and things looked good. We got our gear on laughing at a comment made about the inside of a mini van and walked over to our first pool. Blending in with the background we realized a moped (you know what they say about mopeds!) buried in the trees I guess we were not the only ones here. No worries! I walked down a gravel bank into the water and Jeremy fished across from me on the other side. I cast a black ghost and started to strip in quick 2” strides. With my fly half way in a ripple came from behind and disappeared as fast as it had arrived. Jeremy saw the rings and was immediately ready for action. We kept casting for about 10 min with little action and then it happened. WHAM!! “There he is” my rod quickly bent over and out of the water came what we had been waiting for. The fish jumped half a dozen times with me and Jeremy shouting every time his majesty leaped out of the water. Jeremy was filming while I was

battling; both of us were instantly overcome with joy. Just before I got the fish to the net he gave one last pull tail dancing across the surface of the water. It was a magnificent sight. We landed the fish, took a still shot and released the native with no harm. A quick high 5 and we were back on the water stripping away. We fished up and down the river for a couple more hours landing another salmon and capturing some great underwater content yet to be revealed. As we were leaving Jeremy said “there now we have our salmonid fix….how do you say that anyway?”

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Re: Landlocked With 6 Strings: How Do You Say Salmonid?
by jeremy on May 05, 2005 http://www.ineedasimplesolution.com

hey MEATBALL! - real nice Salmonid and smooth work on the guitfiddle - let's do it again.

- "mr. fantastic" -

Re: Landlocked With 6 Strings: How Do You Say Salmonid?
by greg on May 05, 2005 http://www.fliesandfinsnorth.com

Nice fish, was the water cold ?

mr fantastic
by jeremy on May 06, 2005 http://www.ineedasimplesolution.com

Ok - i have gotten alot of emails and comments about the "Mr. Fantastic" signature and comment in Joey's Article. IN ORDER TO APPRECIATE IT, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND IT IN CONTEXT and also understand that Joey and I do nothing but laugh and crack jokes...the entire time we fish.

So here is how it transpired.

Joey picks me up to go fly fishing. we stop into the cumberland farms up the road from my house for some soda and snacks. when we walked into the store the guy behind the counter sees me and says.."Hey it's Mr. Fantastic." - Joey, immediately starts laughing and says..."Why did he call you that.." Now - you have to understand how the relationship I have with the people at cumberland farms...Basically, I go in there EVERY day for gas, smokes, soda.......and I am always joking with them...and they are always trying to figure me out. See, as some of you know, I work in technology. So... everything that I do basically boils down to having a laptop. For me, the typical work hours (9-5) are really not something that apply. I work all kinds of strange hours. Sometimes 4am to 10am - then a meeting - then fish - then home and work 7pm to midnight..So you get the point.

ANYWAY...the people at Cumberland Farms just can not figure it out because I may come into the store at 1am with flip flops, shorts and a baseball hat and buy a coffee...then I come back into the store at 10 am in the same outfit...then at 1pm I come in with a suit and tie...then at 4 pm with my waders on...AND ON AND ON IT GOES....So that is how I picked up the nickname "Mr. Fantastic" at Cumberland Farms.

SO THERE! - I just wanted to clarify it...because...in order to appreciate the humor ---- you had to know the context.

PS - The other subtle comments that Joey eluded to in his story are simply references to the thousands of inside jokes that we have going on during our fishing adventures.

Re: Landlocked With 6 Strings: How Do You Say Salmonid?
by RickW on May 11, 2005

LOL, I just noticed the Mo-Ped comment...yes I do know what they say about mo-peds and.... well, this probably isn't the place for the rest of it.

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