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Personal Writing fickle Fishermilitary personnelIt was an early Saturday morning, about 600am. I was Awake and attiredready to fish I had been preparing for the fishing derby for about 1 month andwas ready to win. I got to the lake at about 630 and started to fish. As theday progressed more and more people showed up. Before midday there was no place tosit around the lake and people couldnt fish. Lines were universe crossed andpeople were getting kind of mad. Beside me was an old, hardened looking man whoi just ignored.Then finially i had a bite I looked at the line and instantlyjerked back the rod and reeled as hard as i could. I fought the fish for 5 or10 min and netted it up. Not a bad catch, it was only a flathead catfish exclusively it was fair surfaced.But the guy beside me didnt run acrossm to think so he looked at it and gave alittle laugh and kept on fishing. I really didnt know what to think, was helaughing at something i didnt see or was there something wrong with m y fish? Ijust treat it and continued fishing. Then as i was getting bored anddrowsey I heard a yelp and the old man shot up. He had a bite As he wasfighting it he started lecture and telling me how to catch a REAL fish not the rainbow fish in my bucket. As he talked and talked the fish got closer and closer andhe netted it up and took a look. The fish was about half the size of mine butit was a carp not a catfish. I gave a little laugh and continued and he triedto explain...." well you see boy, a carp is a hell of alot harder to hook than acatfish. Carp dont just eat everything they see, theyre very selective. So ifI were you I wouldnt laugh to hard just yet". I wasnt to sure if the development was legit but i really doubted it so I just went on with my fishing.It was getting close to weigh-on time so i had to get a better fish. Then theout of all the things that could happen, the old guy gets a fish on his line,and it was a big one He fought the hellion and got it to sho re and as he wasnetting it he fell in the lake. Not in the deep part, only waist deep but I