He arranged for 40 children to play a game that involved turning a small fishing reel as quickly as possible.
Great-Grandpa described a fishing reel as best he could, but the ruin proved to hold nothing of the sort.
"Events happened beyond our control," he said, maddened at the snarl in his fishing reel.
His find, when he finally swam close enough to see, was an old fishing reel.
Gingerly, then, he held up an old fishing reel and stirred at the mess of line.
When you feel a tug on the other end of a force-feedback fishing reel, you're hooked.
His fishing reel was sitting on the floor.
The next day, as the returns trickled in, President Bush went to buy a fishing reel.
The cable played out smoothly, as if from a fishing reel, with the Executioner on the hook.
He is credited for inventing the very first American-made fishing reel in 1820.