Bucket List Fishing

His name was John Pinner and he called several months before the scheduled fishing tournament. It was a Saginaw Bay team-format walleye event and he and his partner were paid in full. Something came up, he said, and he needed a favor.

Great, I thought, another angler that wants to wriggle out of the no cancellations, no refunds policy. What he asked for, however, came at me from left field and I was dumbstruck on the other end of the phone. It wasn’t at all what I expected.

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