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By the mid 90s Dave had gotten sophisticated in his fishing. He had moved up from the K-Mart Blue Light specials, to the more pricey gear one finds a Walmart. Even more so he decided there had to be a better method to fishing around Mosquito Island than wading. I mean heck it was a lot of work to wade out there and a guy like Dave needed to make sure he didn’t burn off any of those two boxes of Little Debbie cakes he eat every day. Dave broke out his solution to wade fishing as Steve, Greg and I were getting our things ready to hit the water one Friday Morning. We heard the sound of an air compressor going over at Dave’s truck and went to see what he was doing. There he was blowing up a big truck inner tube. You see he had watched one of those fishing shows where they were using Donut Rings to float lakes fly fishing for trout and though it would be a great idea. Only thing was, he didn’t want to spend the money for a real Donut Ring and had opted for the cheaper inner tube.
Once the inner tube was fully inflated we watched as Dave tried unsuccessfully to climb inside of it, but the hole was just too small to come up above his knees. He had a solution to this problem, which turned out to be fun to watch. Dave let the air out of the inner tube then pulled and stretched it until it was around his waist. Next he moved over to his small air compressor and started to fill the tube with air once more. I had to warn Dave that I didn’t think that was a very good idea, but he let me know real quick he didn’t care what I thought. “Little Buddy you are just jealous you didn’t come up with this idea!” So I just let him keep pumping air and with the other two guys just watched in awe. It didn’t take too long before the tube started to form around Dave’s mid section and to this day I don’t have words to describe what it looked like. I’ll just say it wasn’t natural by any means. When Dave finally pulled the air hose away from the tube it was a sight. A 300+ pound man in cheap plastic waders two sizes too small, with a “Sh1t Happens” T-shirt and an inner tube inflated around his waist. If I only had a camera….
When Dave fully prepared we made our way to the water. Steve, Greg and I stayed behind Dave and watched as he entered the water. There were a few other guys getting ready to get in the water as well and they just stopped and stared. I’m sure they couldn’t believe what they were seeing with their own eyes. Heck I couldn’t believe it myself and I’d seen Dave do some crazy things, but this took the cake. We moved off and were soon fishing, but the three of us were watching Dave more than fishing. At this point I was past laughing as there he stood in knee deep water casting looking like something that had just landed from another planet.
We actually fished for sometime before we were deep enough for the inner tube to make contact with the water. This is where things got a bit exciting as Dave decided to test out his new idea by trying to float for the first time. Let’s say this didn’t work quite as he had expected. You see what I was trying to tell Dave earlier was he shouldn’t put the inner tube around his waist, as there would be too much of him (most of his weight) above the inner tube and sure enough I was right. As soon as he put all his weight on the tube, over he went, head in the water and feet sticking straight up in the air. Lucky for Dave, Greg and I were close and we got him up pretty quick. When his head was once more above water he didn’t even pause and started casting again. We did notice that he didn’t go any deeper in the water or try to float. We also noticed that the other folks around us had been watching and there was just a little laughing in the air.
More to come later……………………..
Once the inner tube was fully inflated we watched as Dave tried unsuccessfully to climb inside of it, but the hole was just too small to come up above his knees. He had a solution to this problem, which turned out to be fun to watch. Dave let the air out of the inner tube then pulled and stretched it until it was around his waist. Next he moved over to his small air compressor and started to fill the tube with air once more. I had to warn Dave that I didn’t think that was a very good idea, but he let me know real quick he didn’t care what I thought. “Little Buddy you are just jealous you didn’t come up with this idea!” So I just let him keep pumping air and with the other two guys just watched in awe. It didn’t take too long before the tube started to form around Dave’s mid section and to this day I don’t have words to describe what it looked like. I’ll just say it wasn’t natural by any means. When Dave finally pulled the air hose away from the tube it was a sight. A 300+ pound man in cheap plastic waders two sizes too small, with a “Sh1t Happens” T-shirt and an inner tube inflated around his waist. If I only had a camera….
When Dave fully prepared we made our way to the water. Steve, Greg and I stayed behind Dave and watched as he entered the water. There were a few other guys getting ready to get in the water as well and they just stopped and stared. I’m sure they couldn’t believe what they were seeing with their own eyes. Heck I couldn’t believe it myself and I’d seen Dave do some crazy things, but this took the cake. We moved off and were soon fishing, but the three of us were watching Dave more than fishing. At this point I was past laughing as there he stood in knee deep water casting looking like something that had just landed from another planet.
We actually fished for sometime before we were deep enough for the inner tube to make contact with the water. This is where things got a bit exciting as Dave decided to test out his new idea by trying to float for the first time. Let’s say this didn’t work quite as he had expected. You see what I was trying to tell Dave earlier was he shouldn’t put the inner tube around his waist, as there would be too much of him (most of his weight) above the inner tube and sure enough I was right. As soon as he put all his weight on the tube, over he went, head in the water and feet sticking straight up in the air. Lucky for Dave, Greg and I were close and we got him up pretty quick. When his head was once more above water he didn’t even pause and started casting again. We did notice that he didn’t go any deeper in the water or try to float. We also noticed that the other folks around us had been watching and there was just a little laughing in the air.
More to come later……………………..
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