That aint no walleye!! (Very Funny)

[Hoffer]

I live in Maple Grove - but go to Fargo for work all the time. I just got in and was reading the main Fargo newspaper - the "Fargo Forum". On the front page of the sports section - they had a report on the fishing opener. The main report showed a picture of a 12 year old kid. The caption read "...holds up a walleye he caught saturday at Pelican Lake". The only problem is that he is holding up a Largemouth bass!! It also goes on to say that he had been fishing "Ever since I was born - Forever". Please dont misunderstand me - I am NOT picking on the kid - I have a 12 year old of my own! I just think the picture and the article is a great "blooper" I bet the journalist checks his picture and facts after this story...

[Captain B.R.K]

Over dar in Fargo ya know Dem' walleyes grew funny ya know

You betcha day do

[iffwalleyes]

Watch it there don't start picking on people from Fargo or North Dakota.

[Hoffer]

To be fair the fisherman in the paper were from accross the border in Minnesota - fishing a Minnesota lake....but I dont know about the journalist?? Sounds like a Fargo thing to me

[nluchau]

Tanks fer stickin up fer us ova der in Fargo IffWalleye

[nluchau]

Yeah thats a good one.

[marine_man]

Ah... not real sure how to defend this one... here's the picture:

I sure hope they didn't keep any "walleye"...

marine_man

[TSCTSC]

Agreed. There should be some journalistic responsibility to be accurate. This is a great blooper.

[Jeremy airjer W]

Dat reporter probably likes to cook up dem der wallies in da hot dish fer da pot lucks!

[Scoot]

I've lived in or near Fargo since 1992 and I can say with no hesitation that this is very typical of the Fargo Forum. I encourage lots of shots at the newspaper and their lack of attention to detail, but otherwise leave us Fargo folk alone!

[nofishfisherman]

I think we forget to mention Moorhead in the razzing of Fargo. From my 2 years living in Moorhead I would say its every bit as bad as Fargo and just as worhty of a little ribbing.

[marine_man]

as bad as Fargo? Fargo isn't that bad... ya just gotta know da talk der...

marine_man

[nofishfisherman]

I refer to my 2 years in the fargo/moorhead area as "My Lost" years, would really like to get those 2 back.

[2dalake]

Amen Scoot, the Forum has never had a strong Outdoors section, but this is silly. We had a decent chuckle over this at the office today. Of course, I'm from Minnesota.

[tunrevir]

I believe that that is one of those large eyes or was that wallass? It is a distant spotted cousin to da smalleye...don't cha know der, hey?

Tunrevir~

[Hoffer]

I am glad everyone is having fun with this and not getting down on the boy or the reporter too much. This one just falls under the category of one of those funny mistakes. To you and I - the pciture is readily identified as a largemouth - but I could see where a reporter who doesnt fish much could make an honest mistake...but then again, why send a reporter to do a fish story unless the reporter really knew his fishing As an aside I did e-mail the reporter - but havent heard anything back....

This also reminds me of a story. YEARS ago my oldest brother shot what he thought was a snow goose. He was only 16 and it was his first goose - so on the way home from hunting he proceeded to drive around town and show it off to all his friends....when he got home he showed my Dad who almost had a heart attack - because his snow goose was actually a trumputer swan!

[Slyster]

I went to college at Concoria in Moorhead.. best 4 years of my life.. I love that town.. even though there wasn't much to do.. but the people up there are tops!

[Hoffer]

Slyster-

When did you graduate as a Cobber?? I graduated in 86. They sure have done alot of improvements at the school since I left!! I remember having to walk accross 8th street from Erickson hall to get to class - in many a snow storm or freezing 40 mph winds...that was NO fun. Now they have a skywalk, new sports arena, new landscaping etc....my tuition dollars hard at work. I agree that the Fargo/Moorhead area is just fine - I grew up in fergus falls though and really like the lakes area - hard to beat that area. PS depending on when you wen tto school - the big atraction was the trader and trapper and then the Old broadway.

[Slyster]

Yep.. been to all those places!.. including the windy cold setting... I graduated in 1989. I resided first in Livdahlen (can't remember how to spell it!) then Bogstead, and then off campus a couple years. Biology major. Great times.

Loved going out to Wasted Acres, Old Broadway, and Valentinos, and so many more places... and of course we can't forget HornyBakers cookie day! I don't think they should have bridged 8th street.. the blizzards and winds are some of my best memories!

[Hoffer]

Yeah, I agree. I was a boiology major too. Howard Osborne, Jack Paulson, and many others....good times at many of the old places in and around town...we even frequented ralphs and the corner bar, 3 for ones at places I cant even remember the name of - and as mentioned before - thirsty thursday at the T & T.

[Slyster]

Ralphs! Good times there eh? Did you ever take any classes from Nellermoe? He's my uncle!

[Hoffer]

Your testing my memory - but I think he taught my Ornithology class. I took that thinking it would be fun - and thinking I knew most of the ducks, geese and other birds of the area so maybe I would have a leg up - and it turned out to be the toughest Biology class I took!!! Very hard - for tests he would play a tape of a bird call that we heard maybe one time during a field trip - and you would have to identify the call - and these werent your normal everyday birds...

[Slyster]

That's him! I took his ornithology as well.. was indeed tough.

[nofishfisherman]

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I love that town.. even though there wasn't much to do.. but the people up there are tops!

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We must have met different people. Moorhead high school is a tough place to transfer to. I was shocked the first time someone seriously asked me if I was a drug dealer. They new I was from the Twin Cities and they said they assumed since I was from the big city I was a drug dealer. It was a long strange 2 years. Peoples perceptions up there are just vastly different then reality in a lot of cases.