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Mark Freeman has been underachieving with at least a pinch of grace as the Fish Hack at the Mail Tribune since 1989. Besides covering outdoor issues and pursuits throughout Oregon and northern California, he can't help but find a few things to yuk ... Read FullCategories
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HAIKU MONDAY: On The Saints, Big Brees and Who Dat!
Welcome back to Haiku Monday, where Fish Hack is busy asking, “Who Dat?”
Remember, Fish Hack called it Saints all the way in the preseason. Didn’t bet it at Vegas, but got some Fish Wrap juice out of it.
Besides, who can root against Nawlins?
Colt fans love Peyton./’Aints are now Saints, thanks to Brees.Who Dey think Dey is?
For Haiku Monday virgins, this is the day Fish Hack busts out some non-rhymes about whatever’s on today’s agenda, but all in the form of Japanese poetry fashion. Just a different way to have a few yucks about the outdoors and all that’s Hack-ish in this-here cyber Fish Wrap world.
The Super Bowl always has a strong outdoor twist to it, at least in that double-digit entity called Fish Hack’s Intelligent Quotient.
Indy vs. Nawlin’s. Gotta root for which town brought Hack the better angling experience.
Indy is a nice city … for the Midwest. Visited Indy last January for some Outdoor Hack meetings, and didn’t get to fish. That’s because ice fishing isn’t fishing. It’s nothing more than an excuse to ditch the Wiff and sit in your size XXXL snowmobile suit and drink brandy like it’s …. brandy.
Gulp, wince. Gulp, wince. Gulp/”Go clean out the ice hole, Sven.”/Just why am I here?
But we did go to the best steak house in Indy. Hack ordered the smallest slab on the menu: a 22-ounce ribeye, rare.
“It’s Carnivore Night:”/Eat something someone else killed./ No honor in this.
Now, Fish Hack last visited Lousiana one year after Katrina. Fishing the Gulf south of Nawlins was AWESOME.
Hack and his fellow Oregon Fish Wrappers caught enough red snapper and cobia (for you Norwesters, that’s warm-water lingcod) that we spend $500 shipping home all the fillets.
Hack hosted Taste of Louisiana parties for a year. Fish was sooo good that s0-called friends treated Fish Hack like a … friend.
And the people of Who Dat Nation are Fish Hack’s kinda people.
Drank enough whiskey and slurred enough English while there that the locals dubbed me an Honorary Cajun.
Who Dat? Dat’s Fish Hack./Cajun life: Goal-less, just like Hack’s./Enjoy this moment.