ONE DAY AT OUR SMALL BOAT STATION SIUSLAW RIVER, FLORENCE, ORE,IN 1977, A NEW BOOT ARRIVED SA BRET HONZA. HE GREW UP AT THE TOWN ABOVE US IN NEWPORT OREGON. HE HUNG AROUND THE CG STATION THERE WHILE GROWING UP AND KNEW MORE ABOUT THE CG AND THE 44'S THAN MOST OF US.SOO... WE STARTED TELLING HIM ABOUT THE RIVER MONSTER OR GIANT STURGEON OR WHATEVER THAT OCCASIONALLY SHOWED UP. WE DIDN'T OVER BUILD IT BUT HIM BEING 18 HE SAID HE HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THATS ALL WE NEEDED. WE SHOWED HIM HOW TO DO THE ROUNDS WITH THE DETEX CLOCK CHECKING THE STATION AND BOATS AND THEN TOLD HIM HE COULD DO THE MIDS BY HIMSELF IF HE WANTED. OF COUSE HE DID AND HAD HIM HOOKED.HE CAME DOWN TO THE BOATHOUSE AND WAS CHECKING EVERYTHING AND WHEN HE WENT TO STEP ONTO ONE OF THE 44'S I CAME OUT OF THE WATER IN MY WETSUIT DRAPED IN SEAWEED AND GRABBED HIS LEG AND ROARED. ALL I SAW WAS ASSHOLES AND ELBOWS UP THE RAMP AND ALMOST OUT OF THE BOAT HOUSE WHEN HE HEARD MOST OF THE GUYS AT THE STATION HIDING IN THE LOFT JUST ROARING WITH LAUGHTER.HIS HEAD PEEKED BACK INTO THE BOATHOUSE AND WE ROARED EVEN MORE.I'M SURE GLAD HE HAD A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR.BRET IF YOU READ THIS JAY KEMSLEY SAYS ARGHHHH.
