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My GRAMPS
stood along side the, Lake with a set in stone --GRAMPS-Proud---Wisconsin--Fishin--Stance


Stoic and Fisherman--very-Well-GRAMPS-Known--Successful-Fishermans-Respected--HEROIC
for GRAMPS,with his sectioned Cane Poles, he would put it all together one, section  at a time--of --four --at Ten foot long or more for sure, so  GRAMPS  at  lake, shore --his---TOP-SECRET-- spot he, did stand with Cane pole, at his Heroic side, and--EMPTY-- pail on
 The, ground and he would not stop Fishin and head home not until his Limit he did win it and the   fishin--Metal--pail  full of ---CRAPPIES, ---PERCH,--- and ---Sunnies---and--More-and-More--Sunnies--and--catfish--sometimes--too----to the top overfillingly-- he--did--always--Legendary-and--Heroically--every--FISHIN-TRIP-Adventure----he---always--always--without--Fail----his--Fishin--Pail---he--always---over----FILLED--IT


GRAMPS--- he wouldn't even slouch,kneel, stoop, or--SIT
cause his only --MISSION-QUEST-and--GOAL-- was to catch fish every--Minute--, and his fishin big pail take it home once--HE--DID---Successfully------FILL---IT


Sometimes when he hit a great school of sunnies it was funnies how even with a bare hook, one after the other with his mighty ten foot long cane pole he would ---far-as-he--coold-TEN-FOOT--THROW
and hook cath fill his pail and in a minute have Ten, and the,  bucket --in--a--Crazy--sunny--school--Minute---and----as--The--GRAMPS--LEGEND--Goes---he could fill ---his--FISHIN--BUCKET--Up--Overfilling---in -an -HOUR---or --SO


Proudly with a --------GRAMPS-- Ear -to-Ear---GRIN--he---Quietly--Shyly--very--Humbly--brought his --Prized--Heroic -GRAMPS--catch -------HOME-SWEET-HOME----- for all his children of ten ---and--many many and many--Grand-kids--then--and--the-next door-beighbors-too--and--Preist-at-the-Church---for ---WISCONSIN--FISH-FRY-------din --din
and the Legend of my  GRAMPS  with his ten foot long came pole in his ----TOP-SECRET--- spots --down -at --his---WISCONSIN--- lakes -the --Admiration--and---RESPECT---of--- all the folks around and in his----------Durand Wisconsin ------town--he--so--heroically and legendary did----so--GRAMPS--Shyly--with--his--very--Quiet---CONFIDENT--ear, to ear--Big--LOVING--GRAMPS--GRIN---------WIN


So--- GRAND--MA--she--just--Smiled-and-Smiled--Ear-to--HEART----and---so--Eagerly--and--so--happily--and--so--Proud--of---Grampily---would clean all of the fishes --so--Delicately--neatly--and--Hummingly--singingly--perfectly--to--Eatingly---for --GRAND--PA
then all  the --- fishes --hundreds- --and--hundreds---and --more----She-- would put them in -----old milk cartons-----then fill them with water and tape secure the--top, then ---freeze the fishes in their------ deep ---deep --as ---big -as -a -car-----F-R-E-E-Z-E-R----  in a block of ice so they could have fresh fish all through the cold winter and --no --spoiling ---OR---worry of--spoil--or---THAW



My ---GRAMPS-- fishin with cane pole at --the--TOP-SECRET--Spots--down--at--his--WISCONSIN--LAKE
when he came ---HOME-SWEET-HOME---with ---his--Big--PAIL--FULL--HE--------G-R-I-N-N-E-D---GRINNED---G-R-I-N-N-E-D----EAR--to --EAR----with -that-- proud heroic --Fisherman--- GRIN-- so --humble sweet elite--and--GRAMPS--HEROIC-------------shy-quiet,-confident-----GREAT-GREAT--GREAT







By John d JUNGERS
07---MARCH---2018


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