Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 05, 2011

Must have used the same call on the worms!

Those fish are wise beyond your six years…

calvin is not really smart.

What about those Asian Carp……..they hear a boat motor and JUMP at the boat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the Illinois River!

I guess this is before Dad take’s him camping……and fishing.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Better use worms Calvin

some fish so Hungry…

If only it were that easy! But my Father would say it wasn’t about catching the fish, it was about being out on the lake.

Calvin is so cute in the first Panel..

( I know this has nothing to do with the strip but you know me)

LOL xxx

Lee-Anne, your Father had it exactly right!

Wait till you’re older Calvin. You will develop many ways of keeping the fish from biting and ruining your afternoon view of the water. I prefer leaving the bait home.You can solve all the worlds problems with a pole in your hand’ Fortunately those solutions are left at the riverbank as you load your truck after a hard day fishing. Most men are able to help this forgetfullness with the aid of a cooler.

Give a fish your bucket and you don’t eat for a day. Teach him not to jump in it, and you never eat fish. . ..

No treat, no fish.

I went fishing once and caught a cold!

one of my all time favorite calvin strips.

Hobbes should be there he would know fish protocol.

It worked for Ernie on Sesame Street. Calvin just has the call wrong; it’s ‘Here Fishy, Fishy Fishy!’

Calvin’s way of trying to catch fish is ‘beyond the pale’.If he used a ‘seine’, the ‘net’ results might be better.

maybe if he said “here fishy fishy fishy”

Thunderdog beat me to it, but I’ll add this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUusX1Js6R0

“Those fish are wise beyond your six years…” because they travel in schools.

Poor Calvin he does try so hard.

In westernmost Illinois, there used to be a low spot in the bottoms called Lima Lake (still appears on older maps) which has now been drained and turned into corn-fields, at least in years the levee holds up. Old timers told of a pipe that drained the lake, boaters would park near the pipe and a few fish coming out the pipe would be unlucky enough to land in the boat! Fish were then taken to Canton, Mo and iced for shipment to St. Louis. They also told of one man that didn’t know when to stop, and the weight of the fish sank his boat!

there’s a fine line between “fishing” and “standing on the shore like an idiot”one of my favourite quotes about fishing.

See why we always called it “drowning worms”? You can’t just hold out the bucket and expect the fish to jump in. You need those worms to drown.

“Here Fish??” Calvin needs to address his catch by their proper name. Like, “Here, Mr. Fish!”

I always thought you were supposed to take a jump in the lake, not in the bucket….

time to get the dynamite.

This is the cutest comics ever. Watterson should post at least three a day.

That worked as well for Calvin as it did for me at that age…

good one calvin

Well, at least Calvin didn’t get frustrated and kick the bucket.

There must not be any Asian Carp in that lake.

woa