Wayne Mumford over at Willfishforwork.com sent me a quick note on the 2008 Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program. Factoring in the special rules for September – all I need is a patron willing to front me a grubstake.

This ain’t Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel, I just need enough to keep me in beef jerky and foul cigars…

I considered getting a battered drift boat, painting it in eco-sensitive camouflage and rowing myself into the path of all that barbed death, but outside of a couple of sound bites from my hospital bed, there’s no money in it.

At $4 to $8 per nine inch fish, I can make a couple of folks a tidy fortune. Figure on a snappy logo and a rented storefront – and “Jelly’s Pikeminnow Guide Service and Brownline Flies” should be a cash cow.

For all them fellows that insisted I was “wasting my time with them crap fish” – consider the above prices makes a pound of Pikeminnow worth the equivalent of a pound of wild Salmon.

… now who’s laughing? Hmmm?