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So what happens is, there’s about 20 minutes to
go. And we hear on the radio that this boat is hooked
up–-
Q. Let me stop you, please. When you say,
there’s 20 minutes to go, what significance does that
have to you?
A. Well, you have a starting time and a finishing
time. You can’t put the lines in the water--we’re
already on patrol by tournament headquarters. You
can’t put the lines in the water until they call you
and say, Okay, lines in. And so everybody, at one
time, throughout the tournament area, puts their lines
in the water. By the same token, at the end of the
day, they call the end of the day. And if you show the
tape, you will see what happens when we get to the end
of the day.
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But it was 20 minutes to go in the fishing day.
We knew we had it won. If somebody caught a big fish,
there was no way that they was going to be able to get
it in time to get the lines out of the water, to get to
the dock. And, all of a sudden, we hear that this
boat, they called in a hook-up. And they said, You
know, we got about a 300-, 350-pound fish. And we
said, Ah, no problem.
Well, this fish takes off running, as we find out
later, when we get to the dock, because ten minutes
later, they call in and they say, We got the fish in
the boat. And we all say, How * * * did they get that
fish in the boat in ten minutes? I mean, that just
don’t happen with a killable fish.
You can back down on a little fish. I mean, you
just run the boat backwards as fast as you got the
backbone to run it backwards with the water pouring in
on you, but you don’t do that with a live fish, because
that fish will just run away from you.
How’d they get the fish in that quick? Well, when
we get back to the dock, we find out. This fish hooks
up, while they’re clearing all the lines, don’t even
start, he takes off running and he’s skipping across
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