Deadmeat
Well-known member
A number of years ago I was fishing for sauger below the Fort Loudon Dam in Tennessee when a guy in a bass boat pulled up beside the small flotilla of fishermen and asked what we were fishing for. We replied that we were fishing for sauger. The newbie, obviously never having heard of sauger, asked if they were good to eat and how to fish for them. One of the guys handed him a 1-ounce jig and told him to tip it with a minnow, lower it to the bottom, and just jig it up and down a little. After a few minutes the newbie had a sauger on the line and brought it to the side of his boat. Seeing him reach down to lip it as he would a bass, there were multiple cries of "DON'T!" but they came too late. The sauger chomped down on his thumb and went around it like a can opener, thrashing all the while. The sauger went about ten feet in the air and a copious amount of blood went everywhere. His last question before he left was, "Which way is it to the nearest hospital?"
