Squirrel Fishing

The name of the game is, apparently, Squirrel Fishing." And, should you be overcome by the vast horizons of fun opened to you and all the potential Squirrel Fishers in our virtual neighborhood, you can thank the astute surfing of Todd Neller, co-winner of the FunDay Times Astute Surfer Award.

"Squirrel Fishing: A new approach to rodent performance evaluation," was put together by Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endo, then (1997) of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University. Gloy and Endo explain: "The highest mark on the squirrel performance scale is achieved when a subject is willing to hold on to the peanut or string while it is being lifted off the ground. This state only lasts for a very short time and is very difficult to photograph. In the rare cases where this does succeed, the subject becomes freaked out by the experience and runs away."

Lest you think that Squirrel Fishing is merely an experiment, Todd is quick to point out this completely independlenty corroborating Squirrel Fishing site by a woman named Annie, who, as we click on, turns out to be one of Endo's chronies.

Be that as it may, it is with both gratitude and glee that we add Squirrel Fishing to our Tackle Box o'Fun.