Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The perky side of the Midwest floods!
MSRNC’s Mike Stuckey on the Midwest floods:
The lone upside of flooding: great catfishing
When Mississippi River’s waters rise, hungry channel ‘cats’ head for shoreCLARKSVILLE, Mo. - Treasure lies in the dark river, clothed in iridescent greens and yellows, slipping smoothly down the main channel, bumping up into the flooded bottomlands, gliding, prowling, lurking.
In a crazy commotion of slapping water, it comes squirming and flopping into the bottom of Jim Dockery’s aluminum jon boat.
“That’s a big boy!” Dockery yells, his glee shining through his bushy gray beard.
*snip*
Bad for people, the flooding is excellent for the omnivorous catfish, giving them newly inundated areas in the willows and cottonwoods to prowl for minnows, crawdads, crickets and even — for the bigger ones — snakes, turtles and muskrats.
Ugh. MSNBC, do you really have to channel Katie Couric on global warming or Brit Hume in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings?
‘Cause that would just be disgusting and shamelessly opportunistic. Not to mention insensitive.
