When Donald Wellington is ordered from the house by his sweetheart's father, they decide to elope. He calls for her next day in his speedster, but before they can make their escape the father is seen coming down the street. The elopement is then abandoned. Donald sees him fishing some time later and has a plan to bring him around. He walks up the pier and starts a conversation and accidentally knocks his bait into the water. The father becomes angry, but Donald tells him that he has a bait which will catch twice as many fish. He hands him a box of bait, then goes to a fisherman's hut where he buys a basketful of fish and rents a boat. He rows down to the pier and from underneath fastens fish to the father's hook. That night he decides that any man who can produce bait like that can marry his daughter.