Playing Possum

[crazy4fishin]

OK - you are going to have to bear with me on this story.....you see as I went to get in the boat yesterday morning around 6 a.m. I noticed a possum with leaves in it's tail headed toward my boat.....not a good sign...... but to my relief he changed direction...only to go into the boat next  to mine. As he crawled under the console I thought he would be there a few minutes then come out until I heard him under the top cap in the bow of these folks boat..making a nest I assume.....well what is a guy to do at 6 a.m.??

So I did what any one of us would do in this situation.....I sipped some coffee...pondering what I had just witnessed.... then went fishing! I mean it's 6 in the morning right?! 

Came in and the boat was still these so I thought I had better tell the office but nature was calling so I answered the call and when i came out the folks who owned the boat were getting ready to go out....so I ran down to the dock..."ummm you folks have a possum in your boat!" 

Now these folks are in there 80's....one had just fallen down a bunch of steps and the other just had a hip replacement and had hearing aids....so it took me a minute to convince them until we opened a rod locker and guess who came to dinner!??

Yep - there was the possum looking right at us... so the older fella had the idea that poking it with a paddle was going to make it come out...it didn't....log story sort I hollar at Phil and Paul.....

Picture this - 4 men and one women (almost standing in a chair out of fear) trying to figure out how to get a 5 lb animal out of a boat.....we try the paddle again....nope.....Paul grabs the vacuum turns it on...what ensued was nothing short of hilarious.... Paul pushes the hose in one end and eventually the Possum comes out the other end....Phil does his best Jim Fowler (Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom) with a rope leash fashioned by Paul....but the animal would not cooperate....the critter tries to come back on my boat....no way little buddy....we didn't want to knock it off into the water so it heads back to the other boat but Phil stops that from happening.....eventually the little guy is released to terrorize innocent boaters another day  

O yeah - no pictures if you can believe it!! In this day and age no one thought to pull their camera out!! It was a funniest moments for sure. 

Another great vacation at Lilleys!!

C4F

[MOPanfisher]

Awesome!

[Phil Lilley]

That was a first.

[JestersHK]

Hahaha, that's awesome.  Bet Jackson would of had a field day, but those possums can carry nasty stuff...

[JestersHK]

I'll see you possum and raise you a half drowned baby skunk... Def a wild weekend lol