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That's a Big F'ing Fish!
Looks like someone just caught the world's largest halibut. Billy, my die-hard fisher father-in-law, will be very disappointed.
True story: (as I recall, anyway) My parents went ocean fishing one day, either before or shortly after I was born, and caught one of these things (might've been a flounder). Being from Arkansas, they'd never seen nor heard of such an ass-ugly fish, and assumed it was some sort of mutant. They were going to throw it back until their friends shouted to stop them. "No! You eat it! It's good!"
I don't think they believed them.
(Note: Story pulled from deep recesses of memory, almost certainly wrong in detail. Maybe certain readers of this website can clarify?)
We caught a flounder off the Mississippi Gulf Coast when we were living in New Orleans. You absolutely right neither your dad nor I had ever seen a fish with both eyes on the same side of its head. I had never seen shrimp that weren't pink and frozen in a box. The first time your dad brought shrimp home from a local restaurant I refused to believe that real shrimp had beady black eyes and long whiskers. But I very quickly learned. lol
Posted by: Pat on September 12, 2003 11:58 PM