Agnes by Tony Cochran for July 31, 2020

Face it, Trout. Agnes has “the gift”.

Agnes did catch a Trout.

I took my wife fishing once…best thing I ever did. She complained the whole time. Now I KNOW I’ll never take her fishing with me again!

“Hey, where did get that goofy thing?” “It’s a fish!” “I was addressing the fish!”

I hate fishing, don’t like eating fish so every time i visit my brothers they insist on taking me fishing because they enjoy it. Invariably I am the only one to catch any fish at all and almost always they are large enough to eat and my brothers decide to keep them for supper. I feel like I get punished twice, by having to fish and then having to eat the poor fish that i catch.

There’s something fishy about the whole story.

Agnes was a crab… just standing on her perch, high above the bank

She gave Trout, and anybody else within herring, a haddock, by doing nothing but carp.

While Agnes was floundering, Trout’s sole porpoise was to fish….

Salmon like her should be rewarded…

and yet… she got scrod.

Hey, whatever works, right?

It’s a magic fish! It turned into an apple!

I don’t blame you for eeling roughy about that, she acted a total bass .