I voted yesterday at an advance poll for this Thursday’s Ontario election. I’ll be in Quebec and I wasn’t sure if I’d make it back in time on Thursday to vote. Yesterday was the last day for advance voting and I got there around 7:30 pm, there was a lineup and I waited for half an hour before I could vote. I watched most of the debate when I was in Owen Sound on Tuesday, but I missed the part where they were comparing the “big one that got away”.

I found this blurb on a website and it’s funny how fishermen and politicians have so much in common.

It is often said that fishermen are habitual liars, albeit not malicious ones. In fact, all anglers do, at times, spin rather unbelievable “fish tales”, embellishing their stories in varying degrees (depending on who they are trying to impress at the time) with exaggerations of the size of fish caught or lost. To be fair to anglers, however, it is important to recognize that few, if any, are trained in the science of measurement. Compounding the problem is the fact that most fishermen are among the world’s worst estimators, guilty of not only stretching the truth a bit, but the size of fish as well. As far as the measurement of gamefish goes, arbitrary measures are pretty much standard with most anglers. (reference:http://www.ontariofisherman.com/measurement-fish.htm)