Vice President Dick Cheney, naked women and fly fishing?

Now that’s a story that’s too good to be true.

Internet sites and blogs have been buzzing about White House Web site photos of Cheney wearing sunglasses that reflect what some believed to be a naked woman at his side.

Some news organizations even brought in photo experts to dissect the photo to see if they couldn’t get to the bottom of the next big political sex scandal.

Well, if you blow up the photo it’s supposedly clear the VP is gripping nothing more than the handle of his fly rod.

What bugs me about the whole story is that nobody reported what the hatch was on this day, and if the VP caught any trout. Just another example of why fishing and politics don’t mix, I guess.

Here’s the series of photos the White House posted on Cheney’s fly-fishing trip on the Snake River in Idaho.

Photo of Cheney, fishing the Snake River (without any naked women), courtesy Getty Images.