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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 114148" data-attributes="member: 373">My Grandpa was an old Norwegian that lived to fish. He and his two cousins would take off any time they could and go. When I was 6 I was fishing with my Grandpa at Strawberry Lake up in the hills. He had me hold his rod while he worked on the old wood boat he had. As I was holding it a fish bit and pul;led it out of my hand and down into the lake.  I thought he was going to be torqued but he smiled and rubbed my head and baited another rod and told me he would give me another chance to hold on to this one. I held on for dear life and when a fish bit ( I think he was only pretending to work on the boat) I reeled in my first ever rainbow trout. He passed away the following winter ice fishing down on Grano. The back tire of the pickup fell thru the ice and when his cousins went to get help[, he poked a hole and started fishing and they found him tipped over by his 5 gallon bucket with a northern on his line. Anyways that Christmas before he died he gave me an ice fishing rod. I have had that every since and one of my most cherished possesions. Two winters ago I was ice fishing with my kids down at Grano. It was kinda slow and had set that rod down to check another rod. Heard something and looked back in time to see it go down the hole. ;:;bangheadI was just bummed. 47 years I had fished with that rod and now it was gone. About an hour later saw a bobber go down on another line and set the hook. eeled up a BIG perch and on the hook was a line. Pulled it up and my rod was at one end. Pulled up the line and another big perch was on the hook. I just knew that old Norwegian was looking over us saying "I'll give you one more chance to hold on to this one."</blockquote>

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