Ping, neat story.
Fishin’ ping
Geez guys! Can’t you use explosives or something to get the fishes?
Ping, neat story.
Cool video at the link. Nice young man commentator.
Here in Texas we have a lunker share program: catch a large, fine specimen and donate him or her for breeding purposes. A few wound up in Crawford; I’d like Saddam’s fishing holes to be lunkerized, too.
I hope they don’t have to pay for of an “out of country fishing” license. I pay through the nose to fish for trout with an out of state license in Virginia. :-)
My son bank fishes from the Euphrates. Fishing there is pretty good. Doesn’t eat the catches for obvious reasons.
>>>>He and his several hundred students fished several lakes that dot the Camp Victory compound, outside the International Zone, also called the “Green Zone.”
Grrrrrrr....
No, Victory isn’t “outside the IZ”. It’s 10+ miles away from the IZ next door to BIAP (the airport).
Having said that, the lake surrounding Al Faw palace used to be stocked with hundreds and hundreds of some really very ugly carp-like fish, and they were big-uns. Every once in a while someone would dump a bag of chips or bread into the “lake” and it would become a feeding frenzy of those ugly suckers. Like a shark frenzy but without the bloodletting. I have a few photos somewhere.
Then there is Lost Lake which had it’s very own unique distinction at Victory as the place you would not and should not talk about. It was home to a very special HVT guest for a long time, but that’s all we knew about it. Ahem. ‘Nuff said.
On a vaguely related note, the guys who sold the photos of Saddam washing his clothes were called back from reserve to active duty after those photos were sold and made public. Whoops.
Great story, thanks for the ping.
I liked their improvising on the different baits they used, they’re always thinking. :-)
What is Saddam dug out those “lakes” and buried more treasure at the bottom, and then filled the lake and stocked it with fish?
He was a very devious man.
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