[VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

[Jimmy D. Moore]

" 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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Jimmy D. Moore - Author,Outdoor Writer,TOWA, 
Texas Fish & Game, VP Chapter Affairs GRTU, FFF
Owner/Webmaster - Worldwide Flyfishing Info.
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