Fishing in the cold

I have been thinking about going fishing lately, but I have not been in well over a year.  Several of my neighbors enjoy fishing, or aspects of fishing.  One of them has parents who used to go bass fishing more often than they do now, but he told this story of his parents from when he was younger. I can't recall if he told how old his parents were when they went fishing, but it was the dead of winter in a state North of the Mason Dixon line and it was 19 degrees outside.  The folks were on their bass boat in the middle of the lake.  It was so cold they had to occasionally dip their line into the water to keep it from forming ice.  When they did reel in their lines the water would spin off of their line and splash on their eyes making ice crystals.  A fish bit on the end of his mother's line and she went to reel the fish in, but it ended up pulling her into the water.  Both parents had on several layers of winter protective clothing, so when she went in the water, the clothes absorbed water and she went under water.  Her spouse stood on the side of the boat looking down into the water and could not see his wife.  He said, "I don't want to get in.  I don't want to jump in.  It's cold!  It's too cold!"  What was there for him to do?  Just about then, up out of the water comes the end of her line.  His eyes got big and he watched as her hand came up out of the water.  When her head got above water she said, "I still got it!!!"  She still had the fish on the end of her line.  She was able to capture the fish.  She and her husband both lived to tell about it.  

The temperature outside is anything but cold, it's climbing above 90 this week.  Thinking of this story helps me cool off.