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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
-Ernest Hemingway
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Anglers Have A Way Of Romanticizing Their

Ernest Hemingway
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. it would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
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So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. for example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.
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