This older gentleman who I met while trout fishing near his home in the early spring season sent me this email. It just happened to him. Hi Jason, Went fishing last Thursday, and had a bad day on the lake. I was going to take the old man that lives down the road from us 2 miles, since he call and asked if I could take him, I said sure it would be a good day for him to go, He is 91 and is getting a little forgetful, and has some dementia. I loaded the boat with a cooler of ice ,soda's, bait, and went to get him, when I got their he had changed his mind and did not want to go. This entire scenario took about 25 minutes, I hope as I get older I don't develop this symptomatic way to senility. So sine he did not want to go now and the boat was loaded I went anyway took the dog with me, was having fun catching blue gill and crappie on my ultra-light gear with a two 00 split shot with four pound test stren with half a night crawler for bait, and I was catching 8 to 9 inch gills just having a good time, I was casting up by a pontoon boot and dragging it back real slow, and crash a nice musky grabbed it, took out about ten yards of line then came back at me ,he worked in to within about 5 yards of the boat, then turned and was ripping line off my reel as he jumped, at this point he had my ultra-light bent double, the fish looked to be about a 30 to 35 inches not real big but all you would want plus 5 pounds on that ultra-light gear, he turned and came toward the boat to within about 10 feet out from me, and jumped again, at that point the line broke about 5 inches above the hook, and that two 00 split shot came straight back and impacted me in the mouth. I should not have been smiling about having that fish on. the split shot broke off one tooth just above the gum line and cracked the one next to it. I was spitting out tooth fragments and blood for the next ten minutes, the nerve of the tooth was exposed so it was giving me some pain, so I asked the dog if he wanted to go home and he said yes and we headed for the boat landing. Got to the boat landing, and there is a @#$%^&* security person writing me a ticket for using two spaces to park my trailer, that coast me 5 bucks. the rest of the trip home was uneventful. Went to the dentist, He did a root canal, got that done he put a temporary crown on the tooth so I don't look like something out of HEE-HAW , have two more appointments to get a temp post and crown then two weeks later a permanent steel post and crown. The root canal cost me $400.00 and he gave me an estimate of $803.00 to complete the rest of the job, so fare that fishing trip to the local lake has cost me $1208.00 counting the parking ticket. Being of Scotch-Irish decent the real pain to me is the monetary one, not the one in my mouth, Anna said I will have to start wearing a mouth piece when I go fishing if I cant be trusted to come home with all my teeth. I can almost feel my upper lip now . Bill | 
bad day