René Descartes is famous for the statement, “I think therefore I am.” Someone was visiting the southern part of our country and saw this bumper sticker: “I fish, therefore I lie.” Well, fishermen in all parts of the country have that reputation.

One rule of fishing is that you have to be smarter than the fish or at least smarter than the game warden. A young man in Tennessee was fishing on one of the TVA lakes. He was stopped by a game warden as he was leaving the lake with two large buckets of fish. The game warden asked, “Do you have a license to catch those fish?”

“Nope,” the young man replied. “These are my pet fish.”

“Pet fish?” the warden asked. “What do you mean, pet fish?”

“Well,” said the young man, “Every night, I take these fish down to the lake and let `em swim around for a…