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catch must have weighed over twenty pounds, 

 but it did not seem like fishing. It was more like 

 gathering in the harvest. It was on that day that 

 I landed three trout at once, all over six ounces, and 

 one of them three-quarters of a pound, the only 

 occasion on which I have had such an experience. 

 They got tangled round a bush stranded below a 

 little fall, and the youth who gillied me had to wade 

 in and scoop them out with the net. Which shows 

 you at once that it was not real fishing. Had it 

 been, a German youth entrusted with a landing-net 

 would certainly have knocked them off the hooks 

 one by one. But Kultur had not really become a 

 live issue in those days, and it was also practically a 

 virgin water. 



