Fish Talkin'

Author: Dr. Joey Hancock Copyright 2010

Happy Father's Day

Here is a story out of my book Success Afield that I hope with bless you on this special weekend.

The little red and white bobber danced on the still, green water like a kernel of corn ready to pop. Slowly, the bobber pulled down as the fish took it toward submerged tree top.

"Come on Hully, take it Hully, easy Hully," I whispered to the fish.

"Dad, who are you talking to?" asked my seven year old son.

"Son, I am talking to the fish," I replied as I lifted the rod and set the hook in a slab crappie’s mouth.

"See it works," I said. "You should try it sometime." "You're nuts," he laughed. "Where did you learn that trick?"

I remember well. It was one of those childhood memories that live in your heart forever. Fats and Mary Waddell, who worked with my dad, took me on my first spring crappie fishing trip at the age of eight. Fats, a man over six feet tall who weighed about 140 pounds- go figure-taught me how to fish talk.

I watched in amazement as he put fish after fish in the boat. I was fishing right next to him with the same bait, yet he caught many more fish than me. He talked slowly and calmly to each fish taking his bait. So, I began to copy him. As the cork swam away, instead of jerking quickly like an eight year-old kid might, I talked to the fish until the cork was under; then with a steady lift, the fish was mine. Fats taught a kid how to be patient by never saying a word- at least to me.

My son's cork was easing away. Under his breath I could hear the faint words, "Come on Hully, easy Hully." The cork disappeared, and with a smooth lift the fish was hooked. Oh, by the way, that was just last week, over twenty years away from his first lesson in fish - talkin."

Every day God gives us opportunites to teach our children and to pattern their lives. What have you been teaching you child lately? Give your kids the right example. They deserve it and God expects it.

Teach a youth about the way he should go; Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

Have a blessed Father's Day and leave me a comment or your story about your Dad and special moment ... God bless ...

Joey

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