An old Matt Jones Story from the depths.
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06/20/18 07:19 AM
06/20/18 07:19 AM
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Ohio
OhioBoy
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I was looking in the achieves for a pic of his trotline box for a fella in another thread and ran across this.
we were cutting down and boxing spoony this afternoon and Eddy no arms pulled up with some fish. eddy the son of Cletus hook a third generation commercial fishermen lost both his arms in the record high backwater on the river in the spring of 2011.
Eddy was trying to get his boat under a power line that was supposed to be off, it was the third time he went under it, well it was still on and it knocked him 20 feet out of the boat. Tommy Koon was with Ed and got him in the boat and saved Ed's life but Ed lost both arms after it was over up to just below the shoulder.
conn.
Eddy still fishes every day with a partner and I have to put snare cable in his fake arms about once a month as he keeps breaking his arms fishing.
anyway, Ed pulls up to the market today with his 2 year old girl, I walk out to the truck and Ed said to her, tell your uncle no love how much you love your daddy...she stuck her elbows out and said from nub to nub uncle no love.....
no love is my other nick name around here I got working on the river as I did not like to take breaks till the work was done, some one said you ain't got no love man...and it stuck
conn.
anyway, we walk back in the market and (someone) had a pint of crown setting in the fish blood on the table we were cutting fish down on, eddy said give me a little taste of that..bubba, the market owner said get ya a sip Ed...well we kept on dressing fish and Ed stuck a claw under each of our chins...
then he said (put it to my lips.... grin
we forgot he can't pick a bottle up, I sure have fun at work
matt
it's a true story, I ain't drinking maggot, gotta get up and fish at 4 bells, I might of had a few sips when we got back off the river but I can pass any of your maggot tests,...I ani't give no hundred to a vet in a booth at waffle house at three in the morning like I saw you do once
matt
yotetrapper that vet was in a wheelchair, and he was asking for hand outs...the maggot paid for his meal with a hundred then gave the guy the change...I wanted to whip them both, the guy for asking and the maggot for giving...it was a set up for money, the maggot just don't go to town much....lol
plus, we were both drunker then a big indian on a bicycle...
matt
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Re: An old Matt Jones Story from the depths.
[Re: OhioBoy]
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06/20/18 06:11 PM
06/20/18 06:11 PM
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Pottawatamie co. IA
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"The Coon Combine"
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"The Coon Combine"
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Pottawatamie co. IA
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I talk to him all the time and am friends on Facebook where he posts daily a story about fishing or something interesting. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: An old Matt Jones Story from the depths.
[Re: OhioBoy]
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06/20/18 07:40 PM
06/20/18 07:40 PM
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Coldspring Texas
Savell
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"Wilbur"
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Coldspring Texas
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I miss you in here Matt .... I don’t have a Facebook....afraid some women from the past might light me up in there...
.....there were some good times had back when Matt and my hero Jtrap would get going...
Insert profound nonsense here
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