"... I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply." Ed Zern "Are Fishermen really Liars?" (1977)

" [The Steelhead] can hurdle into the air a split second after he is hooked, and flash hugely out in in the murk, like the sword Excalibur thrust up from the depths - at once a gleaming prize and a symbol of the battle." Paul O'Neil "Excalibur: The Steelhead" (1957)

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