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Date: January 16, 2008 at 19:47:59
From: Cire, [213-156-52-122.fastres.net]
Subject: Bridge |
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I am standing on a low bridge looking down at the small
stream. As I am tying a nymph directly onto the spool
of light line in my hand I am thinking about how empty
the forest is. And then the nymph is in the flow and
a very large brown trout comes out of the bed of the
stream and is hooked and makes a wrong turn into water
that is too shallow and I am over the bridge and into
the water and am tackling the trout and have my
right hand up in its gills and then we are both on the
shore he and I.
I am lying back and looking up through the branches and
thinking about how it is that I came to this point in
time to this place to this fish and I don't know for
how long I was looking up but when I turned to look
at the fish again it wasn't there and I looked down and
just saw its massive dark back for an instant before it
sunk into the black water.
I had that dream last week, but the memory is so fresh,
I might as well have, in my sleep, been walking
through winter forests carpeted with cold wet leaves,
looking at small patches of left over snow for weasel
tracks, and fishing small black streams inhabited by
six foot brown trout.
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