Nancy Fish

All this thinking about the week at Savary has reminded me about a fishing story!

7 years ago and not too far away...

There was a girl (lets call her Nancy) and a boy (lets call him Colin). They met at church and went to the same Bible Study, but he was quite shy, so they didn't know each other well. They finally got their chance to become great friends on a Missions trip in Tijuana, Mexico. A few weeks after they got back, they went on a camping trip with some friends at a cabin on Pitt Lake.

Colin promised to take his friend Nancy fishing. Nancy was the 3rd of 3 girls in her family, so fishing was not a "priority experience" in the household. A needle and thread replaced the need for fishing line and a hook. And butterflies are a lot better than worms. Instead of fishing on holidays, time was much better spent suntanning. But, since they were camping at a lake, Colin took his friend out fishing in his little boat (lets call it Slugboat: for obvious reasons).

He taught her how to fish "old school", using real worms! Truth be told, Nancy didn't even know that you used anything OTHER than worms to lure a fish! She's come a long way since then.

They fished out in the boat together with no bites. Of course, Colin had the honour of skewering the worms on her hook. She remembers not really caring if there were bites or not, because she was with Colin afterall, and that was reward enough!

All of a sudden...Colin got a bite! He started to reel it in. Then...Nancy got a bite too! They both reeled in their lines, but Colin got his in first. He picked up the hook out of the water, and what was on it? Nancy's hook! The next thing he said would be something she'd hear for years to come...

He exclaimed "I caught a Nancy fish!!".

And he sure did! The next day, they started dating! 17 months later he gave her the five-of-diamonds and asked her hand in marriage! And 2 years and 4 days after that first fishing trip, they were fishing with wedding band lures!

And they lived happily ever after.