A FISH STORY

Getting the short end.

Long before there was even a dream of a Sewer Raccoon News, the future editor

was constrained to fish with a Stubcaster(registered trade name). He begged and begged for a regular fishing rod, but there was something out then that supposedly offered the action of full-length rod, but which was break-downable into just two short and highly transportable parts. It was deemed to fill the bill for the diminutive boy who was brand new at fishing.

Other fishermen would row past sometimes and utter belittling words at the boy with The Stubcaster(Reg). There was tittering by little girls behind shoreline shrubbery. "Look at HIM, "he's got a S-T-U-B-C-A-S-T-E-R!!!!!!(Reg)

Soon he became KNOWN as Stubcaster (reg).

It was, unbeknowst to him at the time, a nick-name that would stick to him about half of his life. He stayed short for years, all because of that unresearched equippage.

But then a change came over him, and he became known - by those in the true know - as STUDCASTER (Reg)

^.^