Funny Fishing Hats

Every angler is an honest person with one exception, and the exception is fish. The fish was bigger than that. It was bigger in person, actually — the photo, taken at arm's length with the fish pushed toward the lens, somehow made it look like bait. This is not lying. This is the oldest storytelling tradition on the water, and everybody at the dock is participating. These funny fishing hats are written from inside that tradition. They belong to the angler who knows the difference between a great day fishing and a great day catching, and has had far more of the first. To the one who will tell you, with total sincerity, that every other fisherman is exaggerating. They make good fishing gifts for exactly that person — the one who will be up before dawn on Saturday, will come back with a story rather than a cooler, and will tell it better every time. Embroidered on unstructured dad hats in colors that belong on a boat, a riverbank or the tailgate of a truck with rods sticking out the back.