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I would have, too. On the boat, we began trolling. I was thinking of what had happened to an angler earlier in the season. He was fighting a thin-faced bream on light tackle when a tiger rushed his fish. The bream jumped out of the water, only to be grabbed by a fish eagle. But then the eagle dropped the bream. The bream, still hooked, was landed and tagged. I decided even panflsh are hardy, in Africa. Anyway, when my own reel began to scream, we were passing an assemblage of open-billed storks under an ilala palm.
That stick rattled my bones. Hemingway has a line about fishing off Cuba, where he says if the fisherman had a hook in his mouth, or his Jaw, or in his stomach which was attached to the gear he was playing the fish with, and on which pressure would be exerted comparable to that put on the fish, then the term Jight might be applied. Equal and mortal combat. I was glad Hemingway was not a game warden on the Zambezi. The tiger charged out of the water and tailwalked toward the boat. I cranked madly.
He was a brave little boy. He didn't cry, probably from the shock of it. There was a trickle of blood. His mother dropped her fly rod and rushed over. We drove quickly to the emergency room. ) The Park Street Clinic in Livingston is located on the river, beside the 9th Street Bridge. Thousands of caddis flies batted against the windows as we waited. The doctor introduced himself. He popped open my son Jack's cheek with a gloved finger, gingerly. "Number 14 Parachute Adams," the doctor pronounced.