One day they caught a ride up to South Arm with Bruce Simmons - native of Andover. Bruce dropped the two by the head of the lake and came back to Andover. Good thing he did, he’d a got into some serious trouble, I imagine.
Otis and Gabby, got in their rowboat, (actually, they just took the first boat they could find that wasn’t locked up), and headed out onto the lake. They hadn’t gone very far, when Otis opened his sack and commenced to pass Gabby some “fishin tackle”.
Fishing tackle today, consisted of several sticks of dynamite. Each guy would take a turn lighting a stick and throwing it in the water. When the dynamite would explode, the shock stunned the fish. Then Gabby would net them and put them in the boat.
This went on for about an hour, when Warden Don Gray paddled out to where the two where fishing.
“Now Otis,” Warden Gray said. “You know it is against the law to fish with dynamite!”
Just then Otis lit another stick of dynamite and tossed it into Warden Gray’s boat and yelled, “Warden! You gonna fish with us or just sit there?”