It's that simple. The question a fishermanfaces, then, is how to get rid of the fish he has caught. The Pilgrim Fathers buried a dead fish in each hill of corn to make it grow. Unfortunately, few fishermen have access to cornfields. Most farmers would sooner have a cyclone.
Some fishermen try to palm off their catch on kindhearted friends and neighbors.
Naturally, it doesn't take those folks long to learn that when a trout has been lugged around all day in a hot creel, it's poor competition for a pork chop. None of these methods is satisfactory. Few fishermen have both. The Au Sable River. Flows through the town of Grayling on I-75, about 140 miles north of Lansing and 80 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.