The Funniest Thing All Summer Long

Fishing at Lake Red Haw. I pulled in a long muddy man’s size 11 wader. It took me eighty-three minutes. I thought it was going to be a whale. There was a lot of laughing. My dad and uncle thought it was The funniest thing all summer long. Fish were biting everyone else’s bait hooks. My sister got her teeny tiny stupid bass Mounted on a plaque. My brother got a bluegill mounted. I insisted on keeping the wader. That was fifty-seven years ago. I may still mount it.