Maybe the most frightening part of Thanksgiving

My grandfather is a pack-rat. He is also getting older and finding a need to give away his possessions.

My dad was presented with this item after dinner on Thursday. My grandpa found it in the garage.

It may be the scariest thing I've ever seen.

What is it, you ask? Great question. It's a fish head. That's right folks, fish head, fish head, roly poly fish head. Eat them up, yum!

This was actually a 10 pound, 1 ounce walleye my dad caught when he was 10. This was 45 years ago.

As my grandpa told the story, my dad had been playing on the dock (sittin' on the dock of the bay) and then walked back up to the cabin with a stringer and this fish on it. My grandpa told the story for 45 years, saying that my dad must have found someone's stringer of fish and took it.

Anyone who knows my dad, knows that he would not steal someone's fish. My dad is the guy that I have heard swear ONCE in my entire life, he's never done a single drug, and he's never thought about being a rebel. He's a pretty great guy and a good role model (which is good since I have my mom, the woman who could make an ex-marine truck driver blush). I heard him swear two years ago. He said "Hell." But he also said, "That guy was afraid if he didn't confess his sins he would spend eternity in Hell." He used the word as it's supposed to be used. I guess it doesn't really count then.

Back to the fish story. My dad was sitting on the dock and looked at the water as something came up to eat a bug on the surface. He watched it go back down and as he saw it come back up, he grabbed a net and scooped up the fish, no fishing pole or line necessary. That's how he caught a 10 pound walleye that my grandpa kept the head for 45 years.

Now the fish head belongs to my dad. I will probably inherit it in 40 years and I can pass it onto my children that I will have some day. I have an odd family, to say the least.

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2 Comments:

At 5:36 PM, CarpeDM said...

Blech. It's even scarier blown up. Maybe your grandfather is secretly my mom's dad? It would explain a lot where my mother is concerned. Although she has never tried to pass off a walleye head, there have been some odd purchases made.

I give you the chainsaw sculpture of a bear that she thought would be a good gift for Kari as an example.

At 8:53 PM, The Lioness said...

I think it's cool!