I remembered having this dream last night about noon today and I've been pondering over what it might mean. In my dream, I'm in some unknown boat with the Kasper brothers (which is kind of like fishing with the Hanson's from Slapshot) and I hook up with a big fish. I'm fighting this fish and I'm not able to gain on him at all. He gets me into the backing on my reel and I yell at someone to hand me another rod and hold my line. Then I go about cutting my line and trying to tie a John Collins knot to splice the line into it. I can never get the knot tied though. I screw it up every time. Obviously, my practicing and learning that knot recently is why I dreamed about it, but the frustration of trying to do that knot and screwing it up every time made we wake right up. Where I got the idea I could just splice into another reel and how I expected to reel that much line into a reel is beyond me. All I can say is it seemed like the logical thing to do at the time. It was a big fish too.

BKB