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It was seven AM on a nice lazy Saturday morning in Boca, so peaceful one could visualize a few cows walking across the street to my house for a milking. \u00a0Ah, all the snowbirds have escaped up north. After helping a buddy in Parkland retrofit his McMansion by half past noon, \u00a0I decide to call up my snake head brother Dependable Dondel to see what\u2019s aching. \u00a0 The minute I told him about my super secret spot for Golden Arowana Snake, Dondel was calling his traffic lawyer. \u00a0I arrived at the spot a few stone throws from Parkland at two PM and did not see a soul but me and snake head heaven. \u00a0Fifteen minutes into the oppressive humid thunderstorms I have already sweated two mountain dews and missed five bites with a white scum. \u00a0Half past two I switched to a black red scum and I hooked into a ten pound beauty that was tedious to land and worrying about when a sprite was going to kiss me since I was holding a long all aluminum landing net. \u00a0Dondel called and said he is at the school and did not see me while I was unhooking the Golden Dragon?
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What school? \u00a0When he told me he was out skating on this oppressive summer afternoon I knew the senior delinquent has missed it,\u00a0 the location was super secret and even our seasoned snake veteran could not find it on his GPS and drove thirty minutes past it. \u00a0Yeah yyyouchhhh, as I told Dondel the directions step by step, like triangulating a howitzer round on an enemy counter sniper. I could not get him off the phone fast enough; Golden Dragon the ten pound snake head had decided that my left thumb was a Chinese Fortune Cookies and bit into freedom. \u00a0I am normally immune to pain but this feels like a piece of RPG shrapnel going into the back of my head and the blood was flowing freely. \u00a0I iPhone shot \u00a0Golden Dragon \u00a0and evicted the naughty Snake from my landing net before lightning could find its mark, then ran to the Brazilian bush looking for cobwebs and cleaning the wound with mountain dew.<\/p>\n
I stuffed enough cobwebs to stop the bleeding and used my lighter to sear the flesh and sterilize the wound area and wrapped a couple of\u00a0 maple leaves around for a bandage with the fiber from a cattail – bleeding should stop completely in fifteen minutes. \u00a0 My second snake head was at a drop off and now I barely have one working hand left to set the hook and pull in Golden Jewel –\u00a0 a smaller six ponder who is just fighting the heck out of my good arm. I eBook it with a stick rather than my left thumb, took a picture and threw it back.\u00a0 One last cast before I get a call from Dondel that he is lost, I am try to reel in a small two pounder Golden Pale\u00a0 that was easy to land without the net to my relief , and quickly release. \u00a0I back track to the rendezvous point and caught Dondel one hour late, frustrated and missing all the oppressive heat action of the early afternoon.<\/p>\n
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