"B J Conner" wrote in message
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Whats the best or strangest thing you have found while fishing? In the
water, in the parking area? Was it valuable? did you return it or try to?

reminds me of a fascinating little vignette i was involved in about 25
years ago. i was living in the front half of a duplex, and my housemate,
ben fulton, decided to take up trout fishing. i gave him directions to a
few streams, and he spent nearly every weekend learning the craft. late in
the summer, pj roberts and i spent a couple days up on big snowbird. the
last afternoon, we were subjected to one helluva thunderstorm, and had to
seek shelter under an overhanging bank. we had to crawl out of the water
through some tough laurel, and i fell neck deep trying to struggle ashore.
as we sat waiting out the rain, i suddenly realized my wallet was no longer
in my pants. after the storm passed, i walked down stream for quite a ways,
hoping to see the wallet and retrieve all the licences, credit cards, and a
small amount of cash, therein. no luck.
i came back home, and spent most of the week replacing the lost items.
next sunday night i was watching tv, and ben shows up. he sat down, chatted
for a while, and then says, with a grin, "you been up on snowbird lately?"
i say yes, and begin to lament my lost wallet. when i had nearly finished
my tale, he casually reached into his back pocket and tossed a wallet on the
floor at my feet. yep, it was my wallet. everything intact. he had been
wading upstream, and glanced down to better negotiate a tough section of
rocks, and saw the wallet, lodged between a couple of sharp edged rocks. he
said he damn near fainted when he opened the thing and saw my driver's
license.
i wonder what the odds are on that "find" taking place?

yfitons
wayno (about as likely as forty winning roff's "mr. congeniality" award,
perhaps?)