Fishing Lures

The local give-a-ways say something about a community. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our cable company is giving away free fishing lures with new subscriptions. There are two, a dancing frog and a spoon, both said to have top loops and therefore avoid being snagged by the water plants floating on top.

Now most of this means almost nothing to me. I am not a fisherman of any sort. The one and only fish I ever caught was a beautiful green and gold sunfish in Minnesota when I was about nine years old. I refused to let my father take it out of the water and soon it was a bloated white ugly thing that made me so sad I never wanted to catch another fish ever.

Still, these particular fishing lures must be something they expect to draw customers here, something worth paying the advertising for, something worth stocking up on frogs and spoons, which look like silver loops to me, for.

I wonder, does that mean the locals do a lot of this sort of fishing? Or does it mean that the tourists who decide to move in here come to fish? I honestly don't know.

I heard that there was once a bank somewhere that gave out guns with new accounts. This is much better than that. That I do know.