"We leaned a neat little trick to keep the fish from wiggling. Pour a little rum down their throat and they stop moving immediately. It's makes it easier to take the hook out."
Posted on 02/22/2002 8:46:35 AM PST by Cagey
MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida fisherman was recovering on Friday after being stabbed with the bill of a swordfish during a fight with another man, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Police arrested Frank Ashmus, 46, and Garth Spacek, 42, on Thursday after the two fishermen allegedly started fighting near a dock in Madeira Beach, a small city on Florida's Gulf Coast.
Police said that after Spacek hit Ashmus in the head with a beer bottle and left, Ashmus went to Spacek's apartment and stabbed him in the abdomen with a sharp detached bill of a swordfish.
"We don't see this kind of thing very often," said Pinellas County Sheriff spokeswoman Marianna Pasha.
Both men were drunk, according to police.
Ashmus and Spacek were held without bond on charges of aggravated battery. Spacek was in fair condition, Pasha said.
"The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernal of its servant's soul. The old sea; the sea of many years ago, whose servants were devoted slaves and went from youth to age or to a sudden grave without needing to open the book of life, because they could look at eternity reflected on the element that gave the life and dealt the death. Like a beautiful and unscrupulous woman, the sea of the past was glorious in its smiles, irresistible in its anger, capricious, enticing, illogical, irresponsible; a thing to love, a thing to fear. It cast a spell, it gave joy, it lulled gently into boundless faith; then with quick and causeless anger it killed.. But its cruelty was redeemed by the charm of its inscrutible mystery, by the immensity of its promise, by the supreme witchery of its possible favour. Strong men with childlike hearts were faithful to it, were content to live by its grace - to die by its will" --Joseph Conrad, "An Outcast Of the Islands", pg 20 (1896)
"We leaned a neat little trick to keep the fish from wiggling. Pour a little rum down their throat and they stop moving immediately. It's makes it easier to take the hook out."
The penis mightier?
And I'd guess a little more user friendly.
Or for the Democrats, a WEE bit more user friendly.
Anyone want to help me out, I want to post a similar link. Having a bit of troubles. The link is on My Profile, a fish related link. Help, help anyone.
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