What is a Fisherman?
A fisherman is a supreme optimist, a liar, cannot measure length or weight, cannot tell the time, is a possessor of the most outrageous clothes and fishing tackle, and is a complete write off to the opposite sex. A fisherman can leave his house before dawn and return with only a sunburn, his mates clothes, bait all gone, half his fishing tackle missing and no fish. A fisherman can walk into a sports store looking for a small packet of hooks and come out with a $200 fishing reel.
A fisherman can take his boat out 10 metres from the shore to find the plug missing and that he cannot swim. A fisherman is the only person who can run out of petrol and be excused, slip into bed at 2:00AM without a "Where have you been?" query from his wife, buy half a dozen fish at the fish shop and be believed in his claim of having caught them in the last half hour of fishing. A fisherman can catch half a dozen fish in a day but still give half of them away to his next door neighbor, lend a casual acquaintance $5.00 without batting an eye lid, give up his bait to a mate, even pass over his last stubbie of cold beer BUT never will he, even under the threat of death, reveal a hot fishing spot, or the right size hook and bait when he is running "Hot". A fisherman never suffers from strokes, seldom borrows from his wife and is a stranger to his children - If he ever got around to having any.
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