Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for January 05, 2023

Do they taste like sausage?

Last panel: In desperation, Jeff removes his mustache and uses it as bait.

These cats have a hat for every occasion.

Mutt learns the basics of ’don’t ask, don’t tell’!!!

If that’s a pork sausage, perhaps Jeff was trying to catch one of these:

https://www.keylargofisheries.com/blog/2021/02/17/hogfish-2/

A Troopmate once caught a four-pound catfish with singed shishkabob.

He’d leaving all the blue ones for Mutt.