On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:46:29 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

One of my Dad's friends had one of the funniest WWII stories about
hooking a sub I ever heard.

The short of it he thought it was a fish and wouldn't let the rod go -
pulled him right off the stern of a DE.

Heh. Must have had a better rod and line than that piece of junk my
can provided. Only way I could have been pulled off was if I tied the
line to my.......

--Vic