Try topping this fish story (and it's true)

It's a story about a fish, a ring, and the one that got away for 21 years - not the fish - the ring.

Joe Richardson was fishing in Lake Sam Rayburn in 1987. The graduation ring he received from Universal Technical Institute in Houston fell off.

His wife, Lisa, told us he "pretty much forgot about it" until last Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. That's when a man who was fishing with two other people at Rayburn called him from a cell phone.

The caller told Joe they reeled in a fish and a ring popped out of the fish's mouth and onto the boat.

The ring had Joe's name etched on it. The men used the cell phone to do a search, and when they called the fourth Joe Richardson, Joe Richardson from Buna, they learned it was his ring they'd found.

Joe got his ring back after meeting with the fishermen last Friday night at the Dairy Queen in Buna.

The men caught the fish near the same area at Rayburn - Needmore Point - where Joe had lost his ring 21 years ago.

The 41 year old mechanic told the Associated Press that he wishes he knew "how many fish it's been in."

Can you top that?