From “Questions I Tormented My Father With
“What’dya think Pete? Less than an hour and we caught a whole bucket of pickerel.”
“Yeah. All right, I guess.”
“All right? It’s been one after the other.”
“We’re done.”
“Done?”
“We’re fresh outta luck.”
“Only a minute since the last one.”
“Yeah, and the last one got off the hook and escaped.”
“So?”
“So he’ll tell the others to watch out. Bye bye fish.”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
“We’re all done. Might’s well go home.”
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
“A quitter gets to watch Captain Midnight.”
“Don’t be a wise guy.”
“Do fish go south like birds?”
“No! And you know they can’t talk, right?”
“Whales squeal to each other.”
“Who told you that?”
“Sea Hunt.”
“These pickerel can’t resist our tasty sea worms.”
“Who knows what they been eating? They don’t look right.”
“Now you’re skating on thin ice.”
“No ice here. If we were ice-fishing, we’d need an auger for the hole and a fish house.”
“We’ll quit when I catch the next one.”
“When’s that gonna be?”
“Few more minutes.”
“Already been a few more minutes.”
“Shut up! You’re scaring the fish.”
