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    Fish Stories
    Fish Stories
    Fish Stories
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    Fish Stories

    By Henry Abbott

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Fish Stories - Henry Abbott

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fish Stories, by Henry Abbott

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Fish Stories

      Author: Henry Abbott

      Release Date: December 16, 2010 [EBook #34672]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FISH STORIES ***

      Produced by Linda M. Everhart, Blairstown, Missouri

      FISH STORIES

      By

      HENRY ABBOTT

      NEW YORK

      1919

      Copyright 1919

      by

      HENRY ABBOTT

      Preface

      AN ALLEGED humorist once proposed the query, Are all fishermen liars, or do only liars go fishing? This does not seem to me to be funny. It is doubtless true that a cynical attitude of suspicion and doubt is often exhibited on the recital of a fishing exploit. I believe the joke editors of magazines and newspapers are responsible for the spread of the propaganda of ridicule, skepticism and distrust of all fish yarns, regardless of their source. The same fellows have a day of reckoning ahead, for the circulation of that ancient but still overworked mother-in-law joke.

      It is quite possible that some amateur fishermen, wishing to pose as experts, are guilty of expanding the size or number of their catch, upon reporting the same. But I cannot conceive of a motive sufficient to induce one skilled in handling the rod to lie about his fish. The truth always sounds better and in the case of a fish story, truth is often stranger than any fish fiction.

      In my own experience and observation I have found that the more improbable a fish story sounds the more likely it is to be true. The incredulous attitude of the average auditor, also, is discouraging, and often reacts against himself, as thus some of the very best fish stories are never told. To me, it seems a pity that through these Huns of history many charming and instructive tales of adventure should be lost to literature and to the unoffending part of the public.

      The fellows whose exploits are here set down, seldom mention their fishing experiences. They are not boastful, and never exaggerate. They do not speak our language. I have, therefore, undertaken to tell their fish stories for them.

      H. A.

      Fish Stories

      by

      Henry Abbott

      BIGE had the oars and was gently and without a splash dipping them into the water, while the boat slowly glided along parallel to the shore of the lake. We had been up around the big island and were crossing the bay at the mouth of Bald Mountain Brook, which is the outlet of the pond of that name, located in a bowl shaped pocket on the shoulder of Bald Mountain three miles away. I was in the stern seat of the boat with a rod and was casting toward the shore, hoping to lure the wily bass from his hiding place under rocky ledge or lily pad, when I discovered another and a rival fisherman.

      The Osprey

      He was operating with

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