#3

A guy comes up from lower Michigan he has a restaurant and want to get as many smelt as he can for it. He gets his truck stuck in the sand of the riverbank and someone tells him to find me since I am a farmer, I can pull him out with a tractor. He finds my house at about midnight, knocks on my door and tells me his dilemma can I help? Sure I can, but gonna cost ya time for me to run a couple miles with my tractor, he says OK.

So I get to the creek with my JD 3020 and he is buried up to the bumpers in sand. I got out the chains and cables, got on firm terra cotta and pulled him out. He had 5 milk cans he needed to have filled, so since I was there I grabbed his net and started filling.

At the end of filling his cans, he asked what he owed me for pulling him out.....I said, what ever you want to give me is fine. He whipped out a $100.00 bill and said for the pull and filling up his cans he was more than happy to give me this.

I don't know whether I made this money farming or fishing, but I did appreciate it.

With that, I wont hijack this thread anymore with smelt stories.......they sure was fun though.