[pct-l] Fishing at Rae Lakes

[hiker97 at aol.com]

One day Grizzly and his bros were out hiking the PCT andcamped at Rae Lakes.  The ranger saidGrizzly could use his small boat for fishing for dinner.  Soon Grizzly ran out of bait as his broswaited patiently in camp.  Then hespotted a large snake with a frog in its mouth. Frogs can make good bait. 
Grizzly knew the snake could not bite him with the frog in itsmouth, so he grabbed it behind the head and got the frog.  He then put the frog in the ranger’s baitbucket.  Now the problem was how to letgo of the big angry snake and not get bitten.
All at once he remembered he had a small flask of JackDaniel’s in the cargo pocket of hiking shorts. He poured some whiskey into the snake mouth and it went limp.  He gently tossed it in some reeds along the shore.
Grizzly then went back to fishing in the lake and started tocatch some dinner.  After about 20minutes he felt something nudge him on the leg. It was the snake with two more frogs.
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