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The greatest gift
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Posted Monday, June 20th, 2005 to Fishing Stories
My grandad was a great angler and he handed a great gift down to my father and me.
I was looking through some of my grandads old fishing lures, rods and reels the other day and was thinking how nice it would be if he was still around to go out in my boat and do some bass fishing with me. My grandad loved technology, and for the time that he lived always had good equipment. I know that he would be amazed in what has transpired the last 25 years in the fishing world. Some of the reels still have the line on them that he reeled in mostly catfish in his older days. He gave me my first rod and reel when I was 5 years old and I have been hooked every since. My grandad was a jeweler (watchmaker,) he loved to invent tools for his trade and for fishing. My dad, also a watchmaker, said that my grandad used to enjoy when business was slow so he could go to the lakes and creeks and catch fish. There was not a sporting goods store in town while my grandad was running his store so he started carrying rods and reels in his store. He also repaired reels for people, most of the time he would not charge them unless a part was involved. My grandad also sat on the lakes commission in our area to make sure that fishing would be around for a long time for people to enjoy. When he was older his doctor told him that he should quit going out in his boat by himself because he had a couple of lite strokes. He told the doctor that if that happened he could not think of a better way to go but he hoped it was after he got his fishing in. As I was still looking at all of his old tackle I started feeling a little better about him not being around anymore because he is with me every time that I go out to fish, and daily, when I run the store that he started in 1930. Sure I wish he was here physically, but his dream of his son and grandsons loving a great sport, and sharing it with there children, is just as alive today as it was 25 years ago, and I thank him for that gift.
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