If Carl Hurley can fish like he tells a story

I went out for my early morning run last week, and as I was runing down the street, I saw two nice spinning rods and a small tackle box leaning up against a trash container on the sidewalk. In my neighborhood you just never know what you may fine in trash on any given trash day. I saw a gentleman standing just down a ways on the sidewalk so I ask him if someone was throwing fishing equipment away. As he turned, I recognized the smiling face as Carl Hurley, the KET comedian and story teller. He looked at me with a smile and said..."No, but shortly before you got here a car came up the street and almost burned the tires off trying to stop so he could pick up the rods." We laughed and then he added..."My wife told me this morning not to lean my rods on the trash container because someone would get them in a heart beat." And if you know anything about the "trash searchers" here in Lexington, you know how true that is. He informed me he was waiting for a friend to pick him up, and they were going to a private lake in northern KY to fish for the day. It was good to see Carl in his fishing cloths, and if he can catch fish like he tells a story, he surely had a great day.

He spoke at a meeting we had one time in the tire business....heck of a fellow to listen to.

Man I know what you mean about trash searchers here in Louisville..... I put out a blown Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine and someone in the neighbor hood came by and picked it up and carried it home.

But that would be good bait to lean up against your trash can and see how many people stopped by and asked as you were standing by the trash container....never know what type of peeps you'd meet.:)

Carl probably got his start by practicing on the boy scout troop I was in back in the late sixties when he was a grad student at EKU. Dr. Sexton (dean of industrial technolgy) probably roped him into it.Had many hilarious tails spun by the campfire and will never forget running into him on campus in the seventies as a student while he was teaching at EKU. Some of my friends were fortunate enough to take one of his classes on my recommendation and said they never had a college class as funny or as interesting. I was not able to ever arrange a class with him unfortunately.