The Owl

The story I am about to tell is true, only the names have been changed. Just kidding, let me tell you a story.

This took place on a Saturday night at a lake that we call Lonzo’s. I guest I was about 36 years old at the time so it has been awhile. Boy, now he had some nice fish in this lake. It was quite often that there were fish up to 30lbs there week after week at lest every other week.

My wife and I got there that day and then some friends came up to fish that night. It was a real nice night a summer night just right. The fish were biting real well and we were catching quite a few carp. I had been lucky to get a 14lber and a 19lber so far. Had won an hour with each one of them and the 19 was on the biggest fish. I have to say I was feeling real good at the time.

This was an all nighter and it was about 2 in the morning. It was so quit you could have hear a pin drop on the ground. We were setting there talking about the muskrat in the water. Wasn’t even thinking about what we were doing fishing ,all you know. It was just one of them there times. Just setting around laughing and cutting up doing the things that make a great fishing trip.

I was setting behind my reels. I had a run and was baiting up and getting it back in the stands. I move my seat back, were the wife and everybody else was. I was sitting there talking and out of the night something hit me in the chest and fell in my lap. I look down and seen that it was a dove and it had been injuried, but still alive.

We were looking and talking about the dove thing that hit me and scaried the h*** out of me already, when stuff started falling out of the sky all around me. Then I saw it. Well, it had wings of 12 feet across, a 4-foot body and feet the size of a football. This thing was coming right for my head. It had to be 4 feet from me. I said s*** real load and hit the ground face first.

The next thing that I heard was everybody laughing at me and I mean everybody on the lake. I know that when I look up my eyes had to be the size of silver dollars. I ask if they had seen that and all laughed and said what. I looked at them and did not say anything else about it and laughed with them.

Right after that I had one of those runs that would make you jump about 6 feet in the air. I’m sure that you know what I mean. It was a 23lber and did not even take third place in the derby. What a night carp fishing.

About two weeks later, my friend, that was with us that was the funniest thing that he had ever seen. I told him that I was glad that I gave him the funniest day of his life. All he said after that was that that was the biggest d*** owl that he had ever seen. I just looked at him and laughed. What else could you have done.

Just Carp’N

Paul Collins