HowtoTalktoGirls.com Six-year-old Girl grabs top spot with 138.8-pound halibut.
derby leader was fishing for a mermaid
When 6-year-old Tegan Humphrey of Palmer boated a 138.8-pound halibut on Sunday, her mother was proud and impressed. Her father, Charles, who’d helped Tegan crank it from depths of the Pacific Ocean, was tired.
Her charter boat captain Rob Hyslip was thrilled to have a client atop a division of the Homer Jackpot Halibut derby.
And Tegan? she was slightly sad.
Nice catch, she thought. Wrong species.
“she was fishing for a mermaid, and She didn’t get what she wanted,” said Courtney Humphrey, her mom. “So she was a little disappointed.”
Paula Frisinger, derby coordinator for the Homer Chamber of Commerce, said that Alaska’s biggest fishing Derby rarely sees a mermaid entry. “I think that’s a great idea,” she said of a mermaid division. “We’ll have to think about that.”
Tegan’s halibut was large enough to grab the top spot in the derby’s Lady Angler division for June, well clear of Barb Cheney’s 61.6-pounder.
And it’s unlikely any Alaska flatfish caught this summer will weigh 3 1/2 times more than the angler on the other end of the line.
Tegan, a 40-pound student headed to Wasilla Lake Christian School this fall, had just finished a long battle with another halibut when her Big fish gobbled up the squid and herring bait about 2 p.m.
The previous fight produced a chicken halibut with teeth marks from gills to tail, an indication that a larger halibut — they’re cannibalistic — had tried to secure a meal.
Not long after Tegan had her bait back on the bottom, her pole doubled over.
“No sooner did she hit the bottom, than that fish was on,” Hyslip said. "And it took off zinging line.
“Next thing I heard was, ‘I can’t crank it, I can’t crank it.’ "
Dad stepped in to help, and the fight lasted about 25 minutes. It ended with another disappointment for Tegan when Hyslip pulled out his sawed-off shotgun.
“You’re not going to shoot my fish,” she pleaded.
“Yeah,” Hyslip acknowledged. “she wasn’t thrilled at first. She didn’t really understand what was going on.”
Before long, though, the small disappointments were forgotten. Tegan had her Big fish, so big the captain had to shoot it.
“It was really heavy,” Tegan said.
Dad remembers.
“she gets all the glory,” said Hyslip of Big Bear Halibut Charters, “and he got all the hard work.”
But nobody begrudged Tegan her family bragging rights after a hard-working day on the water. Before long, her exhaustion showed.
“she was completely tuckered out,” Courtney said. “I’ve got an awesome picture of her on the way back in, sleeping.”
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Alec Greven
He’s only 9, but this pint-sized pickup artist already knows plenty about pleasing the ladies.
So much, in fact, that Alec Greven’s dating primer, “How to Talk to Girls” – which began as a handwritten, $3 pamphlet sold at his school book fair – hit the shelves nationwide last week.
The fourth-grader from Castle Rock, Colo., advises Lothario wannabes to stop showing off, go easy on the compliments to avoid looking desperate – and be wary of “pretty girls.”
“It is easy to spot pretty girls because they have Big earrings, fancy dresses and all the jewelry,” he writes in Chapter Three.
“Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil.”
He advises, “The best choice for most boys is a regular girl. Remember, some pretty girls are coldhearted when it comes to boys. Don’t let them get to you.”
Over a few Shirley Temples yesterday at Langan’s on West 47 Street, Alec said that he culled his wisdom by peeking at his peers at play.
“I saw a lot of boys that had trouble talking to girls,” Alec said.
As for his how-to, he concedes, “I never expected people to buy it like a regular book in a bookstore.”
But with classic plain-spoken advice – like “comb your hair and don’t wear sweats” – it’s no surprise his 46-page book was a hit with boys and girls of all ages.
He believes the best way to approach a girl is to keep it to a simple “hi.”
“If I say hi and you say hi back, we’re probably off to a good start,” he said.
As for his own love life, he said he is not dating anyone at the moment. “I’m a little too young,” he confessed.
In his book, published by HarperCollins, he suggests holding off on falling in love until at least middle school.
Dating – which he defines as going out to dinner without your parents – is for “kind of old” people, who are 15 or 16.
Officials at the Soaring Hawk Elementary School said he wrote the book – which was the runaway bestseller at its book fair – for kids, but believe anyone can find inspiration in it.
Alec’s mother, Erin Greven, credits her son’s beyond-his-years insight to his avid reading.
"He reads nonstop. At dinner, I say, ‘Put your book down,’ " she said.
Alec – who just finished a children’s book on the Watergate scandal – said he wants to be a full-time writer when he grows up, with a weekend job in archaeology or paleontology.
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