Billy’s World

Billy is a bass angler who, like you and me has a passion that is only equaled by his desire to eat and breath.  We are all challenged by the environment that we live in, we all think that our home lake offers a greater challenge then the next person’s.  However, before you start feeling sorry for yourself, let me tell you about Billy’s World.

In Billy’s world there is green and yellow, but no blue, orange or pink.  He goes to school, and while there are books, there are no pencils, no paper and in fact no teachers.  He can buy the things he needs with dollars, but there are no coins.  He wakes up each morning to the sound of a Rooster because in his world there are no clocks.  He loves his mommy and his daddy, but he has no brothers or sisters, or friends for that matter.  He enjoys going to the zoo, but there are no lions, no zebras, no monkeys, Tigers or elephants.  But there is a hippo, a squirrel and a sheep.

In Billy’s world there are bass, bluegill, crappie and walleye, but there are no catfish or trout.  Near where he lives there is dandy little pool, but alas, no water.  There are no lakes or rivers, but there is a creek. He has feelings, and sees himself catching bass after bass on long Summer days. 

In Billy’s world there are reels, but no fishing poles.  There are spinnerbaits but no crankbaits, spoons but no worms and there is flipping, but no casting.  Billy can fish deep, shallow and in the middle but he cannot walk the bank, because there is none, and because he has no legs.  He does however, have knees.

In Billy’s world there is no size limit, but there is a creel limit.  Tickets are never given because there are no wardens.  But there are officers who will check a creel, but not a basket. 

In Billy’s world there are patterns, but they are not seasonal.  You see, in Billy’s world, there is only Summer and Fall, there is not Spring or Winter.  For this reason, you can always fish top water except that, well, remember, in Billy’s world there is only flipping, not casting.

In Billy’s world there are no depth finders, GPS units or electronic flashers.  There are no high performance outboards or automatic fuel injection.  But there are trolling motors.

Billy lives in a world of double letters.  If a person place or thing does not have a set of double letters in it, then that item does not exist.  I hope you don’t feel like you wasted your time listening to this today.  You can imagine how I must feel having written this.  By the way, in Billy’s world words are written, but you cannot write.

By the way, in Billy’s world, there is a probassanglers.com, but there is no internet.