On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:07:50 -0500, "Gary"
wrote:

Eventually, the fish pulled them past a youngster's birthday party, where
the kid's mother took pity on Strassel and handed him a couple of beers.

Some kids party

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Yeah, I took away two lessons from the story: Don't serve beer at
your kids birthday party, especially if there are rampant fisherman on
the loose; and two, don't leave your gaff laying around in the back of
the boat.

Lesson three might be to only catch cooperative Tarpon who are willing
to slow down a bit when extra provisions need to be "requisitioned".

:-)