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++ but running the local gas
pump and: doing the odd.
_-value-and-ring job (plus rais-.
ing three kids) doesn’t fit ‘in
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in frustration. .

a. ‘hundred bucks. is’ a.
‘helluva lot of dough for Pete.
Aside’ from that,: Pete ‘likes:

light-tackle fishing. A light —

rod, a light line and a

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sides, says Pete, how the hell .

-.de you fry a 400-pound = —
marlin for the wife and

. Kids?!

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uneasily in what constitutes
the bilge of a kayak. It shares
togetherness with a half-inch
of water and a ballast of
several dozen exotic fish.

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horse: that had large yellow :
teeth. The horse was proud -
~ of them. You could tell by the

- way he always kept his lip.
turned back! ‘Reminds me of .
- the wife’s mother, if ify you get _ -

what I means.

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dro, who loves to: fish and
~ works in the local: hotel. For
Five Bucks Canadian we are

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warm - Pacific,

Bey. of Melaque. ~ es

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.. Gingerly. At the tail, which is
to Alejandro. One turns very.
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We bait up again and drop
Alejandro

hand-lines 30-pound mono-
filament wound on a bleach
bottle. I flip six-pound line’

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- oTh “The =rod tip whips viciously :
again. ‘The line. whips: back °

- “Que nombre ‘el bastardo °

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~ skewer:
: sardine...

The rod tip. ‘smashes into.

the’ water in a savage strike
Vand hangs. limp. ‘Whatever is
-down there is > igs hungry

and i vicious!

S 1 replace ‘the. “hook ‘and.
‘on. - another tiny.
“smashes. the. rod tip on the.

edge. of {the -kayak. I
rummage. the: tackle box and

replace the lost tackle with a~
‘thin wire leader.. Alejandro

looks’ ‘interested. I toss him.
one. ‘“‘Por El: ‘Bastardo,”
tell him. ok .

-and- forth. and then heads in.

the. general - _ direction : of

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a half-mile ma.
~ from ‘shore on the: fabulous .

1 T tighten the . drag. on the”

a reel and ten minutes later I-

—: haul four. pounds of prot
‘s ‘hold ‘up. the ‘monster: Pounds of protein

over. ‘the. ‘side. Alejandro

" removes the hook and ti
-. aS far as I can get from the - ne tosses |

-end that bites. I. turn: slowly’ and five kids he is probably --

“ planning | tomorrow’s fish fry!
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it in the bilge. With a wife

T- lank “at. the fich . The fich -

- aaw _meae

looks: at me. ‘It’s my ‘old
‘friend, ‘SEY Bastardo”’, teeth.

_ and ali. ae
my best i in ‘fractured Spanish: a

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head with a large, I lethal and «

_Fusiy knife,

- _**Sumbitch!”” he says.

It’s: long ‘and- torpedo-

shaped, with a crazy crescent

~ tail like a’ Saracen: sword.

_ When it slashes into a school

of .sandines or a. dengling .

7 lure; it makes a rainbow trout.

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fish box is overflowing. We

have. averaged a fish every -
two minutes: The sun is.

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suns “Pelicans: circle and dive --
- ‘inthe. “schools: of. sardines.
They swirl--and boil ‘to: the
_ “surface, fleeing the’ predator... -- ee
fish below. Then we, too, are. aah

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the’ mountains away. from”
Another ~ strike:

_ off my spinning reel and a
to the’ surface. The rod tip.

_. . fish on the crest tof. a breaking
_ waves uo _

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"Alejandro bangs it over the :

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