Thread: Therapy, fishing is such good therapy.

Seeing CP's post " we are winning" made me think of the following ;

Shortly after I was released from the hospital, after my double lung transplant, I asked my doctor when I could resume fishing, he said "today, but you can't bait the hook or take the fish off", they were concerned with bacteria because of my compromised immune system. I told my wife, "you are going to be a busy girl". Just a little while later I heard the crappie were in shallow in a cove where the marina was. We went over with our poles and some minnows. I had my respiratory face mask on, sitting in a camp chair. My wife baited me hook up with a minnow and I quickly hauled in a crappie which she also took off and baited the hook again. A man was fishing by a stump just up the cove from us and had watched all this happen. I looked at him and remarked, "she sure is a good wife isn't she", he replied "she sure is", but he did not know the entire story. My wife and I had a good laugh.

She is the best. Never left my side through out my journey. Has been the best care provider a person could ask for, up to and including today. And she is a good fisher person as well. While I was recovering I wanted to go down below the spillway on Lake Tawakoni, TX, she was worried about me therefore would not let me go alone. I caught nothing, she caught a 21 inch hybrid and landed it, in current, on 6 lb test. We went over to Lake Fork one day and she bought a shad looking crankbait because it was pretty, some pinks and stuff, she caught 4 fish on that bait that day. Almost 40 years we have been married. Looking forward to doing some crappie fishing together once we get past the white bass run. Thanks for all the acknowledgements, she really is special, maybe I can find her a rose colored bait to get her for Valentine's Day, a dozen rosey reds might work. LOL