Sportsman's Paradise

There's a private fishing lake near Gratis, Ohio called Sportsman's Paradise. A couple of our friends belong to it, but the $100 annual fee is a little steep for us. The owner claims to have a 150 pound cat living in the lake.

A couple of years ago, our friends were in the shop talking to the owner when a guy came in yelling that he just had a good pole broken and drug off by "that monster catfish of yours". He continued to fuss and fume and demanding an explanation of how such a thing could happen.

The owner told the man that years ago, he stripped an old car and sank the body in the middle of the lake to serve as fish cover. He calmly told the man, "When you hooked the cat, he just swam back to his den in that old car.... and rolled up the window."