B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 07, 2023

Or forced perspective.

Well…things did grow bigger back then.

Every story has a beginning. Many don’t have endings.

Once I was driving by Loch Ness, you know- it’s true what they say…

“Before Jaws”, coming soon to a theater near you.

It looks kinda fishy to me!

After Ahab injured himself in a fishing accident, his friends sent these.

‘Get whale soon’ cards.

One time my friends really wanted me to join them for a fishing excursion. I didn’t want to at first but eventually joined them…

I am afraid that I succumbed to pier pressure.

My friend ties fishing line to the zipper of his pants then throws homemade lures into the water…

He says fly fishing is great fun!

Soooo….that’s how it started?

Did the man catch the fish or did the fish catch the man?

Fishing for complements?

He looks like Wiley with two legs. Maybe it is, and a fish got the other one. It would explain his aquaphobia.

My grandson caught a fish! Quick! Take a picture!

…and it was THIS big!

… or is it just art? See today’s Frank and Ernest:

https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2023/06/07

Of course in these great fish stories. They always leave out, the part about of how the one that got away, almost EAT ME!!! Lucky to be alive! Well except for the story of Jonah and the whale.

Hadda start somewhere.

It was a whopper of a tale…and tail.

And the surrounding blank walls represent the ones that got away.

It would have been priceless — if true.

We fishermen have a long and not to proud tradition of expanding the truth. Howerver, we do catch fish. So, we’re not politicians.

Sums it up!

Hmmmm… fishy, I don’t trust it.

That’s one heckuva big fish that got away!

That’s some strong test line

Looks a little like Willie before the peg leg. Haven’t seen him in a long while.

Although it got away, his drawing is perfectly accurate. Probably caught on the original Popeil’s Pocket Fisherman Spin Casting Outfit.

There’s always a bigger fish.

Cave size the only limitation on the lie.

Why does it look like Willie before he lost his leg?

First of the new world post-apocalyptic that is.