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MA: So, Larry, I know that you fish a lot.

LK: Huh?

MA: I know that you fish a lot.

LK: Fish a lot?

MA: When did, how did you start fishing?

LK: Yeah, you know what happened? That guy that teach me -- well, not teach me, he didn't teach me -- he told me about fishing, he's a professional. He keep winning boats, car, and all kind of stuff. Professionally, he's not an amateur, so he told me of squidding. And now, when I went to squidding, and you know what Link's sell me? Six-inch squid jig. You know how big that is. You never use, that's a commercial jig. Anyway, and then what happened? Salmon pole and salmon reel, pan reel. And so now I didn't know nothing about squidding. For one week I don't know nothing, I don't see why I can't catch any fish, squid, because the squid jig is too big. Nobody gonna catch anything that big. But anyway, that's what they gave me, and that's Link's now. How come a tackle shop sell me a thing like that? But anyway, they did. So I couldn't win anything. So finally, I asked Mario's grandson, "What does Grandpa use for jig?" "Oh, lipstick, lipstick." Now, you never use lipstick for paint, because you never want to kiss the dry lips, and that's what happened. I left the jig for one year on the clothesline, and I said, gee, maybe he must be, told me that... what's that... you color the fingernails? Oh, nail polish, nail polish.

MA: Oh, polish.

LK: Okay, now, that's something else. So I started painting my jigs all nail polish, and it worked, it worked. No, what happened is a, was a pin, safety pin. So I made that into a smelt jig, I mean, a squid jig, and then I started catching squid, and then what happened is it's made of nickel plate. The pin is nickel plate, not stainless steel, so every time I used, got rust. Then finally I said, "Gee, how can I make a jig that don't rust?" Then finally I think about, oh, nickel plate. So I started making with nickel plate, and then I started catching all the squid. You know that jig now they use? I don't know if you know, called Mylar cloth, that's how they, now all the professional jigs are made from Mylar cloth. It glows in the water. So when they -- what worries me is when they start using the lamp, you know, and then a luminous jig is, glows when the light hit, now it's over-glow, so now I can't catch no squid with that. But now they stopped using that, so now it's back to normal again. That squid jig works now.

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