As soon as I sit in my eye doctor's chair, we usually discuss some aspect of fishing or hunting. One day I started the conversation by mentioning the newspaper headlines where a doctor in Boston had revived a solidly frozen child in warm water, brought him back to life and he had no brain damage or tissue damage. My doctor quickly told me this wouldn't be news to him, because when he was a kid growing up in Newfoundland, more than once he had taken trout, caught through the ice, and thrown on the ice early in the morning, and then when he went home in the evening, fish presumed dead, were revived when put in warm water to clean in the sink.

He went on to describe how he baited his hook for ice fishing, on the way to the pond he would shoot a Blue Jay or two with his .22, and use the innards for bait, then save the feathers to be combined with a bit of tinsel from a cigarette package in the Spring for a great trout fly.

CC#18 These are facts, nothing fishy about them.