73 Fishing Stories Grow Every Year ~ Men's Birthday Tee

Fishing Stories Grow Every Year ~ At Seventy-Three That Bass Is a Canoe

The one he caught in 1981 has gained roughly four pounds every birthday since. Seventy-three years, a thousand mornings on the water and a memory that improves with every retelling. For the man whose grandkids ask for the big fish story knowing how it ends.

• Boat Buddies: The guys at the ramp have heard it twenty times and still laugh on cue.
• Grandkids' Gift: Let them give it and then ask him to tell it one more time.
• Lakeside Birthday: His 73rd belongs on a dock, with a cooler and a fish nobody can verify.