Fishing Tradition

A bag of lucky pretzels

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It has been a tradition to take a bag of pretzels fishing. Before eating one, you should put one in the water as an offering to the fishing gods. After years of doing this, I asked Poppa why we do this. After laughing, he said he had once dropped a bag in the boat. The ones that fell on the floor he didn’t want to eat, so he threw them overboard. To save face he told us he was making an…