" As I see it now in slow motion, perhaps even as I saw it then, the great fish came straight up out of the water, just as it had in my dream, bursting into that bright spring morning of the Opening Day of Trout Season. Huge and magnificient and real at last, it rose slowly, majestically, rolled into a one-and-a-half gainer, all the while violently shaking its massive head. Then, still in slow motion - oh, the horror, the horror of it - the fish broke free! I have since forgotten much bigger fish, fish I actually caught, but I have never forgotten the dream fish that, for one brief instant, became gloriously real. It survives today as brightly in my mind as it did whan I was ten years old. So perhaps in a way I did catch the dream fish, inducting it as I have into the mythical legions of The Ones That Got Away, those fish that live on as long as memory lasts. And so, you might ask, do I not deep down believe it was a far, far better thing for the great fish to have slipped once more beneath the dancing diamonds of Sand Creek and to have darted away into the watery depths, still wild and free? FAT CHANCE ! "

Have A Great Day - And it's great to be back as your OLD QUOTEMEISTER!!

JIMMY D

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