Mother Nature at Her Best...
by
Reginald Price

Have you ever had one of those days, where you laughed yourself sick watching someone else have problems with mother nature?  Let me jump back a little and explain somewhat about my brother, that is, his size and strength.  He's about 6 ft. 200lbs but can straight arm
lift 200 lbs. And bench a whole lot more.  A scary kind of strong person..  To look at him, you wouldn't think he had that kind of strength.  Not the big body building type of body, but strong.  One day we were fishing up on some of the small beaver ponds.  The kind you have to put the sneak on just to get a chance of catching a fish. These ponds have some of the most beautiful Brookies and Cutthroats you can find anywhere.  Nice 16 inchers, and sometimes better.  Nice fighters....  

Anyway.  We were trying to put the sneak on them, so we had to get on our hands and knees to keep our profiles down because they were so spooky.  Next thing I hear is my brother cussing and swearing, and not real quiet.  He is pounding away at his leg, then his thigh.  He was hitting his leg so hard, I though he was going to break something. I tried to ask him what was going on, and all he could say was something was crawling up his leg and he wasn't going to let it get any further. Finally he just grabs at his pant leg, and squishes whatever it was.  He just knew it was one of them mad diseased, dreaded field mice, that go straight for the meat of things.  Now you wouldn't think someone as big and strong, and tough as him would be so afraid of such a small creature, and I guess since it was him and not me, it seemed awfully funny, because all of us just split a gut.  Especially when he finally stop the creature from going any further by squashing it.  Now the part that had the rest of us in stitches, and laughing so hard, was when he dropped his drawers and this poor thing that once resembled a frog, but now, was nothing more then a grease spot, or  looking like something fresh out of a blender.

 The fishing in that particular pound was out of the question, since he washed out his pants with all the frog guts and himself.  But this was one of those moments that you will never forget.  This moment will always be with me.  My brothers and I still tease him about the poor frog, and I guess that I am still glad that it was him and not me.  I probably wouldn't have laughed so hard, but it was one of those moments in your life that will always stick with you.  We treasure that moment, as well as many others that us brothers had while fishing the back country, and we will still tease him once in awhile about the mad frog attack by the beaver pounds.  Tight Lines everyone, and remember to watch out for the mad frog of the beaver ponds.  At least there is one less now!

 



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