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    Posted 10 months ago

    MishMasher
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    My mother was born and raised in Webster Massachusetts and we went there often as children to visit. My uncle Jack would take me to this lake and he tried to teach me how to swim and float. I did not learn how to do either of those but I did learn how to pronounce the name of the lake and the meaning of the name. You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, no one fishes in the middle.

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    1. keramikos, 10 months ago
      MishMasher, Wow.

      How to Pronounce Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22d_HzU4Erg&t=22s

      You can't even float, huh?

      Some people can't float because of their body composition:

      https://www.swimnow.co.uk/learn-to-swim/4-secrets-to-floating-in-the-water/

      My BiL was like that when he was young. He could swim fine; he just couldn't float. He demonstrated it for a skeptical friend by jumping into a diving pool, lying flat, and sinking twelve feet to the bottom.
    2. MishMasher MishMasher, 10 months ago
      I didn't like it when Uncle Jack floated because he did so for a very long time. He would fall asleep & in a deep sleep at that. It scared me because I thought he might drown. It occurs to me now that Uncle Jack wasn't napping he was full of drink & was passed out.!!
    3. keramikos, 10 months ago
      MishMasher. >8-0

      I can see where that would not have been confidence-inspiring.

      On the other hand, he never did drown, did he? What's that old saying about fools and drunkards?

      Anyway, as a female, you probably have a natural advantage in floating, because women usually have less muscle mass and more body fat than men.
    4. MishMasher MishMasher, 10 months ago
      I never did learn to float expect for on a raft. I'm having flashbacks of all the fish that bit me while I was in that lake. Hmmmm
    5. keramikos, 10 months ago
      MishMasher, Freshwater fish bit you? >8-0

      The closest I've ever gotten to being bitten by a fish was minnows nibbling on my legs (which just tickles), but apparently there are indeed freshwater fish that will bite humans.

      Here are the species in Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg:

      *snip*

      Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, White
      Perch, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Pumpkinseed, Redbreast Sunfish, Brown
      Bullhead, Yellow Bullhead, White Sucker, and landlocked Alewife. Trout are
      also stocked annually in the spring and fall.

      *snip*

      https://www.mass.gov/doc/webster-lake/download

      Apparently Bluegills can nip you:

      *snip*

      They're attracted to the sweat on swimmers' bodies, and also tend to attack when the swimmers stop moving and stand still.

      *snip*

      https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90021

      This poor kid got bit by either a pike or a muskellunge:

      https://www.wired2fish.com/news/boy-injured-after-rare-freshwater-fish-bite/

      It's probably just as well that I didn't know stuff like this when I was a kid. :-(
    6. keramikos, 10 months ago
      MishMasher, No guarantees, but it sounds like the Bluegills were the biting culprits.

      Because you didn't swim, you probably spent a fair amount of time standing still in the water, and unfortunately, that would have made you an attractive target to Bluegills.

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