Vernon, Florida
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:14:02
I hate to have to get out
and chase every one of them down...

:14:06
but I try to let them see me sitting here.
:14:08
So then, if I have to write them up...
:14:11
it's their own fault,
because they can see me sitting here.

:14:15
I'm not trying to hide now.
:14:17
But there is a few places I sit around
where you can hardly see me.

:14:22
That's for my radar gun, when I have it.
:14:25
I don't have it with me today.
:14:27
I had to send it back in
and get it recertified.

:14:31
So I'm waiting for it to get back here.
:14:33
It should be in Friday or Saturday...
:14:36
and then I can sit out here
and catch a bunch of them.

:14:42
They said he was 65 years old.
:14:46
I don't know about that now.
That's a long life for a mule.

:14:50
But he eventually died.
:14:53
They rooted him over into that pond.
:14:57
Just an old skeleton Iying there
with the hide all on him.

:15:00
Just as tough as anything you ever seen.
:15:02
And a big hole in his throat here...
:15:05
where the buzzards and things
had eaten...

:15:08
every bit of him as they could.
They couldn't eat him all.

:15:12
I was a-fishing in there one day...
:15:14
and dropped my bait down there
at that hole...

:15:17
that old mule laying in there,
you know, all puffed up.

:15:21
Dried up on the skeleton.
:15:24
And there was a big warmouth perch
run out him up here and bit my hook.

:15:30
Took it in, that old mule, that quick,
you know?

:15:35
And he got off of there. Got loose.
:15:37
I went to pull the hook out...
:15:39
and I must have hung it
on one of his ribs in there.

:15:42
I had to break it off.
:15:43
But I put on another hook...
:15:46
and dropped it down there
and I caught a big one.

:15:50
The bones had come out of his legs,
the skin was laying there.

:15:55
And it was tough as a bear.
:15:58
I got over,
it was about this deep in the water.


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