Fishing with Karl, Part 2 and Karlisms

Do you ever see those books like the "World According to Winnie the Pooh", or "According to Mr. Rogers" where there are these cool sayings and they lead to metaphors and deep thinking? I love those (I have a great one for later). Anyway as I was in the boat with Karl and he would throw out these one liners, my first thought was ohhh-hhhoo this is blog worthy. Even hubby looked at me and said, wow you need to be writing some of these down. So here they are, some hilarious Karlisms. Now I know they may not be all that funny if you aren't sitting scrunched up in the freezing wind on a small boat, or if you already have good fishing lingo, but Hubby and I have incorporated many of these into our daily conversations. As I thought about them, I thought some of the Karlisms can be related to the real and crazy lives we all lead so here they are.


"Pounding", or "Pound it" this was Karl's expression for the biting fish, as in "they are really pounding it" meaning fish are hungry and going for it!
"Fish ON"-as soon as the line went down and bobbed you are to yell at Karl "FISH ON" and he will come with his net ready to drag it in the boat.
"Ruler of Death" if you happened to get a "fish on" you put him on the "ruler of death", 15 inches on the ruler meant the fish was out of luck and went into the...
"Box of doom" -I will never look at a cooler the same way again.
"Pandemonium"-This was our favorite Karlism-see when the walley were really biting we would barely get our line in and we would have 3 or all 4 of us pulling in a fish at the same time. This led to needing more minnows from the "Captain", putting fish on the "ruler of death", untangling lines (which were referred to as a "devil of a mess"), and "pure pandemonium"

So I think about it and all the metaphors and connection to life I could get out of our trip with Karl...but in the end here is what it amounts to. All Karl had to do was call Small Fry "Captain" and he was hooked (I was hooked), you think that kid had been a deadlist catch crew member all his life. He was the only one of us who ever stood and WALKED on the boat while it was on the lake. Karl told us on the boat as Small Fry was scurrying to help, and in the car back. How great our kids were, he says he has taken lots of families out and some are well you know-and he rolls his eyes. "These two here, you got nothing to worry about". Thank you Karl, thank you very much. I am really hoping Karl meant a little more than just as fisherman.