So that you may be interested? Again and again did California and I
prance down that reach to the little bay, each with a salmon in tow, and
land him in the shallows. Then Portland took my rod and caught some
ten-pounders, and my spoon was carried away by an unknown leviathan.
Each fish, for the merits of the three that had died so gamely, was
hastily hooked on the balance and flung back. Portland recorded the
weight in a pocket-book, for he was a real-estate man. Each fish fought
for all he was worth, and none more savagely than the smallest, a game
little six-pounder. At the end of six hours we added up the list. Read
it. Total: Sixteen fish; aggregate weight, one hundred and forty pounds.
The score in detail runs something like this--it is only interesting to
those concerned: fifteen, eleven and a half, twelve, ten, nine and three
quarters, eight, and so forth; as I have said, nothing under six pounds,
and thr
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