Hope no one takes offense at this, it's all in fun. I'm pretty sure anyone that's been down to Hoodsport during the Chum rush will recognize one or two things they've seen before. I wrote it one morning while waiting for my fishing buddy to pick me up to go down there and get in the mix:
Ode to the Chumster
Look at them Chumsters, ain't they nuts?
Snaggin' them Chum salmon in they butts.
They's fifty-'leven Chumsters, only ten feet of bank?
Jus' insert your Chumster wedge, rotate and crank!
They wedge right beside you; might not be polite;
It's squeeze in, sleaze in, fight, fight, fight!
They's fifty pound test line an' big treble hooks;
They all floggin' the water with they psycho looks.
Ain't no lookin' left and ain't no lookin' right;
They jus' floggin they lines wherever they might.
And, somehow, every time they crosses you,
It's you crossed them, not they crossed you!
They gets their Chum on, then woe be to you,
It's "fish on!" "look out guy!" "Comin' through!"
They fights they Chum left, right, 'round an' through;
But they Chum's always right in front of you!
So they tangles your line and those lines over there;
But Chumster ain't tangled, so he don't care.
Jus' snaggin' them Chums by all they fins;
Snaggin' them Chums, mostly in they ends.
Snaggin' them big Chums, snaggin' them tiny;
Snaggin' all them Chums right in they hiny.
Want to be a Chumster? Want to bust a gut?
Jus' get out there and snag some Chum by they butt!
[This message has been edited by T Dodge (edited 10-25-2000).]
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Tad