Merry Christmas.

[Walleye Express]

With a little over a week to go. I thought it might be time to dust off my Christmas Poem and post it. I've tweeked it just a little from last year. And in this time of real strife for many citizens in our country, I hope it brings at least a smile to those who really need it right now.

“Twas the night before Christmas, and on Saginaw Bay”

“The shantys were all a-glow with fishermen wanting to stay”

"It was twilight, dead calm, almost perfectly still"

"The time when BIG GATORS can give you a thrill"

“I had sat out a Tip-Up that I positioned within view”

“But concentrated more on jigging, as Tip-Up's catch but a few”

“My Do-Jigger fluttered and had just settled, awaiting it's fate”

“As a thick band of red appeared near it, on thee OL’FL-8”

"Few things in life stay as exciting, as a man reaches old age"

"As the expectations of this moment, that were about to be staged"

“Your pulse will quicken, your rod hand may even start to shake”

“While you sit almost motionless, awaiting the take”

“With the first twitch of the rod tip, and a snap of the wrist”

“I drove home the sharp trebles, in the jaw of the fish”

“Her struggle was valiant, with violent bends in the pole”

“But with slow steady pressure, I worked her up into the hole”

“Her girth was impressive, Her length 30 inches or so”

“My buddy looked kinda puzzled, when I said...... "I think I’m letting her go”

“Some things need explaining, and others fall into place”

“I knew I had to say something, from the shocked look on his face”

“Think of this buddy, before we call it a night”

“Tomorrows Gods birthday, and He's blessed everything with life”

“I’ve caught plenty of walleyes, and taken home my share”

“I’m giving this one back to him, I think it would only be fair”

“So down into the hole she slid, and under the ice”

“Now swim away, swim away, and give someone else a good fight”

Capt: Dan.

[joelsanders]

merry x-mas capn!