LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Telling fish stories

I would like to thank Jay Simons for all the years of service to this community. And where the heck was I last week when you asked for our best fish stories for the question of the week, I have some fantastic fish stories. The one I need to tell you does not involve big fish or lots of action. In 1968, when I was 18, a couple of buddies and I went out to my dad's fish house on Spring Lake, near Prior Lake, Minnesota, to catch our limit of Sunnies. As I was falling asleep on the top bunk, I tied my fishing line to my finger. A short while later a little tug on my line woke me up. I felt sick and woke my friends up to discover that we were being poisoned by unburned propane fumes. A 5 ounce sunfish saved the lives of 3 Minnesota boys. Now I am not the kind of guy that puts much stock in blind faith. So, this all was probably just a coincidence. It was also probably a coincidence that immediately after my mother died a young osprey circled around me 3 times at a distance of about 25 feet, looking directly at me and flexing it's talons. Many unexplained things happen to us during our short stay here. The one I am really curious about though is, was it just a coincidence that a little songbird momentarily landed on Bernie Sanders podium in Oregon during the primaries in 2016. Did that little birdie have something to say or is it all fake news?

Rob Kjos,

Heron