Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

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Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the active scene: "On cold nights, night crawlers steal the fur coats off caterpillars. Two-tailed mermaids play the lyre. Ralph McCall portages his canoe across a log (oophs! It's a muskie) He loses his gear to a loan shark. On hot days walleyes scale themselves to keep cool. Turtles crawl out of their shells to drum out midnight boogey. A frog carrying a fish stretcher decoys a bass into the desert. An automatic fly saves your casting arm. You can skeeter troll for walleyes of Snowball Reef. A mayfly allergic to water tries to pollinate a barrel cactus. Smart bluegills like the gran popper. "Chef Long Jump reveals his secret recipes: "Nail a carp to a plank, bake til tender, throw out the carp, and eat the plank; Drive a railroad spike through the tuff catfish, boil til spike is dissolved and eat the fish. For wary trout, sprinkle grasshoppers on the water, then shoot trout with a slingshot. You can't catch muzzle fish on hook and line. My last fish was so heavy, its photograph weighted six pounds. A dandy lyin uses corkscrew worms to catch bottle bass. Try fishing in outer space (There is no fish, but the tales are fantastic.)." Sid's authorship is in the lower left.