1 00:02:07,627 --> 00:02:09,661 The surface of the earth... 2 00:02:09,296 --> 00:02:10,529 is 30 percent land... 3 00:02:10,664 --> 00:02:13,032 and 70 percent water. 4 00:02:13,166 --> 00:02:16,002 A newborn baby is composed of 70 percent water... 5 00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:17,236 and 30 percent everything else. 6 00:02:18,939 --> 00:02:21,173 I guess this means... 7 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:23,609 that life and water are inseparable. 8 00:02:23,744 --> 00:02:26,445 A human child at birth undergoes a ritual... 9 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:30,349 almost identical to that inflicted upon a trout at death. 10 00:02:30,484 --> 00:02:32,318 The fish is whacked on the head... 11 00:02:32,452 --> 00:02:34,286 thus putting it out of its misery. 12 00:02:34,421 --> 00:02:35,588 The infant is whacked on the behind... 13 00:02:37,491 --> 00:02:39,191 thus initiating it into its misery. 14 00:02:41,862 --> 00:02:45,564 Upon my birth, my father made sure that I was given... 15 00:02:45,699 --> 00:02:49,301 the proud, manly name of Augustine. 16 00:02:49,436 --> 00:02:52,838 And since I was born into the first family of angling... 17 00:02:52,973 --> 00:02:54,407 it should come as no surprise... 18 00:02:54,541 --> 00:02:56,709 that I was a fishing prodigy. 19 00:02:56,843 --> 00:02:59,578 I caught my first steelhead with my mom... 20 00:02:59,713 --> 00:03:03,015 on a worm when I was four. 21 00:03:03,150 --> 00:03:06,852 I didn't feel any hostility towards land dwellers. 22 00:03:06,987 --> 00:03:09,989 I just had water on the brain. 23 00:03:10,123 --> 00:03:12,191 The only thing I gave much thought to... 24 00:03:12,325 --> 00:03:17,596 was bait versus fly. 25 00:03:17,731 --> 00:03:19,231 On my tenth birthday... 26 00:03:19,366 --> 00:03:22,268 I caught my 180th steelhead with my dad... 27 00:03:22,402 --> 00:03:24,303 on a fly. 28 00:03:24,438 --> 00:03:26,639 By the time high school rolled around... 29 00:03:26,773 --> 00:03:29,075 I was great at attracting steelhead. 30 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:31,243 Not so great with the cheerleaders. 31 00:03:31,378 --> 00:03:33,979 And when most kids were making college plans... 32 00:03:34,114 --> 00:03:35,014 I didn't bother. 33 00:03:35,148 --> 00:03:36,148 Gross. 34 00:03:36,283 --> 00:03:37,783 Figured the only institution... 35 00:03:37,918 --> 00:03:39,118 my grades would get me in... 36 00:03:39,252 --> 00:03:42,254 was the Oregon State Pen. 37 00:03:42,389 --> 00:03:43,656 But on water? 38 00:03:43,790 --> 00:03:47,293 I understand the way fish think. 39 00:03:47,427 --> 00:03:49,929 My parents' union... 40 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:52,798 is one of stubborn, extremely loyal... 41 00:03:52,933 --> 00:03:56,202 hot-tempered, polar opposites. 42 00:03:56,336 --> 00:03:58,337 Ma is a bait fisher... 43 00:03:58,472 --> 00:04:02,274 an expert plunker of worms. 44 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:05,377 My father is a writer secondarily... 45 00:04:05,512 --> 00:04:09,115 and a famous fly fisherman primarily. 46 00:04:09,249 --> 00:04:11,250 My brother Bill Bob is different... 47 00:04:11,384 --> 00:04:12,618 than the rest of us. 48 00:04:12,753 --> 00:04:15,755 He was born with a prodigious ability... 49 00:04:15,889 --> 00:04:18,557 to ignore all things aquatic... 50 00:04:18,692 --> 00:04:22,528 which to a massive extent implies his entire family. 51 00:04:22,662 --> 00:04:23,963 He hates water. Won't drink it. 52 00:04:25,198 --> 00:04:26,665 He wears galoshes and a hat... 53 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:27,967 almost every day... 54 00:04:28,101 --> 00:04:29,301 just to stay clear of the stuff. 55 00:04:30,971 --> 00:04:33,038 Not that he doesn't need a little protection... 56 00:04:33,173 --> 00:04:34,707 from other hazards now and then. 57 00:04:34,841 --> 00:04:37,443 Good thing Ma has native intelligence. 58 00:04:37,577 --> 00:04:38,844 And she always seems to be 59 00:04:38,979 --> 00:04:40,746 in the right place at the right time. 60 00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:19,952 My father's battle... 61 00:05:20,086 --> 00:05:22,188 with a giant steelhead he named Nijinsky... 62 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:24,623 was the stuff of legends. 63 00:05:24,758 --> 00:05:28,227 And the story of that fish brought him fame, fortune... 64 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:30,596 and a healthy ego. 65 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:32,298 Raised by English aristocrats... 66 00:05:32,432 --> 00:05:35,701 he inherited their speech and manners. 67 00:05:35,836 --> 00:05:38,938 When he autographs a book, he writes his entire name... 68 00:05:39,072 --> 00:05:41,240 Henning Hale Orviston. 69 00:05:41,374 --> 00:05:42,741 To approach every task-- 70 00:05:42,876 --> 00:05:44,577 I call him H2O. 71 00:05:44,711 --> 00:05:47,012 He's the one person in the world... 72 00:05:47,147 --> 00:05:49,448 who calls me by the name on my birth certificate. 73 00:05:49,583 --> 00:05:51,483 Augustine... 74 00:05:51,618 --> 00:05:54,787 best get another box from the car. 75 00:05:54,921 --> 00:05:57,623 I just brought in three boxes. 76 00:05:57,757 --> 00:06:00,025 Tell you what, Augustine. 77 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,228 Until you find someone else to employ you... 78 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:05,998 you might want to do what I request. 79 00:06:06,132 --> 00:06:08,534 Yes, sir! 80 00:06:10,837 --> 00:06:12,438 Do you have children? 81 00:06:12,572 --> 00:06:13,839 Oh, yeah. 82 00:06:37,697 --> 00:06:39,498 Before I take a few questions... 83 00:06:39,633 --> 00:06:40,833 let me conclude by saying... 84 00:06:40,967 --> 00:06:42,935 I like to think of this legislation... 85 00:06:43,069 --> 00:06:45,804 as the Worship the Waters Act. 86 00:06:45,939 --> 00:06:47,740 Yes, little lady. 87 00:06:47,874 --> 00:06:50,376 Hi . Um, curious. 88 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:54,213 How can building all those new dams be an act of worship? 89 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:58,117 I mean, even if the wild salmon are lucky enough to survive... 90 00:06:58,251 --> 00:07:00,619 the turbines on their pilgrimage up the river... 91 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:02,821 their smolt will be swallowed, of course... 92 00:07:02,956 --> 00:07:05,758 by the predators on their way back to the ocean. 93 00:07:05,892 --> 00:07:10,396 Maybe we should call it the Slaughter the Salmon Act instead. 94 00:07:10,530 --> 00:07:13,032 There may be some collateral damage to the salmon... 95 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:17,069 but this will create jobs and cut taxes, and besides... 96 00:07:17,203 --> 00:07:20,005 we are making great strides with aquaculture these days. 97 00:07:20,140 --> 00:07:21,407 You'd be amazed what we're doing... 98 00:07:21,541 --> 00:07:22,775 with farmed salmon. 99 00:07:22,909 --> 00:07:24,543 There's no smoking here. 100 00:07:24,678 --> 00:07:25,878 You need to put that out. 101 00:07:26,012 --> 00:07:27,579 Of course. The environment. 102 00:07:27,714 --> 00:07:28,614 Come on. 103 00:07:28,748 --> 00:07:29,982 Certainly. 104 00:07:30,116 --> 00:07:32,451 Let's go. Come one. 105 00:07:32,585 --> 00:07:34,086 There's no evidence... 106 00:07:34,220 --> 00:07:36,588 that consuming farmed salmon poses any threat. 107 00:07:36,723 --> 00:07:38,991 Yeah, you and I can debate that. 108 00:07:39,125 --> 00:07:41,961 But we can both agree that fish have better places to live... 109 00:07:42,095 --> 00:07:44,663 than pools of their own shit! 110 00:07:56,142 --> 00:07:58,610 Where are my books, Augustine? 111 00:07:58,745 --> 00:08:01,180 My name is Gus! 112 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:06,719 ♫ And none may come for days ♫ 113 00:08:06,853 --> 00:08:07,987 Sorry. 114 00:08:08,121 --> 00:08:09,488 Sorry. 115 00:08:38,151 --> 00:08:40,686 My parents argued about a lot of things. 116 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:44,223 But it was never a question of who would have the last word... 117 00:08:44,357 --> 00:08:46,425 merely who would have the next one. 118 00:08:48,395 --> 00:08:51,063 How could I tell them I was thinking about leaving home... 119 00:08:51,197 --> 00:08:54,166 when I couldn't even get a word in edgewise. 120 00:09:04,144 --> 00:09:06,111 So, Hen... 121 00:09:06,246 --> 00:09:10,282 have you ever been to Royal Lake? 122 00:09:10,417 --> 00:09:11,784 If I have... 123 00:09:11,918 --> 00:09:13,552 the brain cells recollecting it... 124 00:09:13,686 --> 00:09:18,791 have been destroyed by this merciful beverage. 125 00:09:18,925 --> 00:09:21,093 So go ahead, Gusser. 126 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:22,694 Tell him about that record bass... 127 00:09:22,829 --> 00:09:24,530 you and Bill Bob pulled out of there that time. 128 00:09:24,664 --> 00:09:25,831 Ma. 129 00:09:25,965 --> 00:09:28,100 Augustine, you call yourself a fisherman? 130 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:30,335 I call myself Gus. 131 00:09:30,470 --> 00:09:33,605 Well, Gus... 132 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:35,908 why were you fishing for bass? 133 00:09:36,042 --> 00:09:37,943 Dutch Hines says that-- 134 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:40,245 Dutch Hines is an idiot. What does he know? Bass. 135 00:09:40,380 --> 00:09:41,947 Bass! 136 00:09:42,082 --> 00:09:44,383 It's been said that a man with a Bible... 137 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:46,819 is more dangerous than a man with a gun. 138 00:09:46,953 --> 00:09:49,721 lzaak Walton's The Compleat Angler... 139 00:09:49,856 --> 00:09:51,857 was my father's Bible. 140 00:09:51,991 --> 00:09:54,193 "The king of fish, the trout." 141 00:09:54,327 --> 00:09:56,562 And since the time I was a toddler... 142 00:09:56,696 --> 00:09:59,264 I heard it quoted and misquoted daily. 143 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:04,036 "via the fly rod, the most aesthetically perfect experience... 144 00:10:04,170 --> 00:10:07,673 available to mortal--" Don't break my book. 145 00:10:07,807 --> 00:10:11,443 Don't worry about your stupid book. Here. 146 00:10:11,578 --> 00:10:13,745 "Come. Let's kill them all. 147 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,515 "Then let's go find an honest alehouse... 148 00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:19,351 "where we may drink a cup of barley wine... 149 00:10:19,486 --> 00:10:20,786 and rejoice together. " 150 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,687 Completely mistaken. 151 00:10:21,821 --> 00:10:22,888 I swear, Hen. 152 00:10:23,022 --> 00:10:24,356 You've taken his facetious humor... 153 00:10:24,491 --> 00:10:26,291 and turned it into a mortal condemnation. 154 00:10:26,426 --> 00:10:28,260 You bribed your teacher for your diploma. 155 00:10:28,394 --> 00:10:30,562 Shows a lack of humor. The trout-- 156 00:10:30,697 --> 00:10:32,865 lke Walton wrote all that about fly fishing... 157 00:10:32,999 --> 00:10:35,234 just so he could make some extra pocket money. 158 00:10:48,081 --> 00:10:50,616 Stop! Just shut up! Stop. 159 00:10:56,256 --> 00:10:59,992 What would you think of me if I didn't fly fish? 160 00:11:00,126 --> 00:11:02,127 You know what you are? You're a fishing fascist. 161 00:11:02,262 --> 00:11:04,997 You're a diarrhea-mouthed bigot who's blind to anyone... 162 00:11:05,131 --> 00:11:09,134 who doesn't drool over the sound of your stupid, suave talk. 163 00:11:09,269 --> 00:11:10,903 The only person you love is yourself... 164 00:11:11,037 --> 00:11:13,038 because you've got your head so far up your own ass-- 165 00:11:13,173 --> 00:11:14,473 All right now, Gus Orviston... 166 00:11:14,607 --> 00:11:16,408 that's no way to talk to your father. 167 00:11:16,543 --> 00:11:18,043 What in hell's gotten into you? 168 00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:20,145 You're a greedy, gloating shrew... 169 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,548 and you don't know shit about fishing or living. 170 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,716 Neither one of you do because you're just both... 171 00:11:24,851 --> 00:11:25,884 dug so deep in your ruts... 172 00:11:26,019 --> 00:11:27,553 that you've got mud in your ears. 173 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:46,471 I gotta get out of here. 174 00:11:46,606 --> 00:11:48,707 See this? 175 00:11:48,841 --> 00:11:51,476 No no no, not Nijinsky. 176 00:11:51,611 --> 00:11:53,845 This is the source of all your bullshit. 177 00:11:56,316 --> 00:11:59,618 Nijinsky was an honored part of our family... 178 00:11:59,752 --> 00:12:02,854 since before I was even born. 179 00:12:02,989 --> 00:12:04,256 And even though his body... 180 00:12:04,390 --> 00:12:06,325 was stuck over the living room mantle... 181 00:12:06,459 --> 00:12:09,595 his spirit haunted every corner of my life. 182 00:12:12,198 --> 00:12:15,167 What can you say after you've spontaneously cremated... 183 00:12:15,301 --> 00:12:18,170 your parent's prized fish in the fireplace? 184 00:12:18,304 --> 00:12:20,005 The only thing that came to my mind 185 00:12:20,139 --> 00:12:22,674 was "Good-bye." 186 00:12:24,210 --> 00:12:26,812 For me, happiness would never be found... 187 00:12:26,946 --> 00:12:29,715 anywhere but on the banks of a river anyway. 188 00:12:29,849 --> 00:12:31,316 So I took the few possessions I owned-- 189 00:12:31,451 --> 00:12:32,384 Bye, Gus. 190 00:12:32,518 --> 00:12:34,052 and turned to the river. 191 00:12:34,187 --> 00:12:37,222 And to a new life devoid of every obstacle between me... 192 00:12:37,357 --> 00:12:40,959 and my beloved art of angling. 193 00:12:46,199 --> 00:12:48,433 ♫ I will ask it plain ♫ 194 00:12:48,568 --> 00:12:53,272 ♫ 'Cause I just have one way to speak ♫ 195 00:12:53,406 --> 00:12:55,107 ♫ Help to make me strong ♫ 196 00:12:55,241 --> 00:12:59,778 ♫ Because this world has made me weak ♫ 197 00:12:59,912 --> 00:13:02,781 ♫ I remember when I started out ♫ 198 00:13:02,915 --> 00:13:06,518 ♫ There wasn't anything ♫ 199 00:13:06,653 --> 00:13:09,521 ♫ Any man or any country ♫ 200 00:13:09,656 --> 00:13:14,426 ♫ Any court or any king ♫ 201 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,529 ♫ That ever kept me ♫ 202 00:13:17,664 --> 00:13:21,433 ♫ From my calling ♫ 203 00:13:21,567 --> 00:13:24,069 ♫ Oh ♫ 204 00:13:25,872 --> 00:13:28,073 ♫ No wall so tall ♫ 205 00:13:28,207 --> 00:13:32,444 ♫ I could not scale ♫ 206 00:13:36,716 --> 00:13:39,151 ♫ But now I feel ♫ 207 00:13:39,285 --> 00:13:43,989 ♫ Like I am falling ♫ 208 00:13:44,123 --> 00:13:46,224 ♫ Oh ♫ 209 00:13:46,359 --> 00:13:54,366 ♫ Lord, don't let me fail ♫ 210 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:57,102 ♫ Let me run like I'm a river ♫ 211 00:13:57,236 --> 00:14:01,506 ♫ Let me travel like a trail ♫ 212 00:14:01,641 --> 00:14:08,947 ♫ Lord don't let it fail ♫ 213 00:14:09,082 --> 00:14:11,650 ♫ Let me run like I'm a river ♫ 214 00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:15,821 ♫ Let me travel like a train ♫ 215 00:14:15,955 --> 00:14:18,190 ♫ Let me run like I'm a river ♫ 216 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:22,494 ♫ Let me travel like a train ♫ 217 00:14:22,628 --> 00:14:25,263 ♫ Let me run like I'm a river ♫ 218 00:14:25,398 --> 00:14:28,900 ♫ Let me travel ♫ 219 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:33,405 ♫♫ Travel like a train ♫♫ 220 00:16:39,298 --> 00:16:41,566 There's just nothing like the feel... 221 00:16:41,701 --> 00:16:43,668 of a trout dancing through the river... 222 00:16:43,803 --> 00:16:46,738 making the pole pulse like a heart in your hands. 223 00:16:48,341 --> 00:16:49,708 It does to your hands... 224 00:16:49,842 --> 00:16:51,977 what dreams of eternity do to your heart. 225 00:16:52,111 --> 00:16:55,213 And yet, I killed the trout. 226 00:16:55,348 --> 00:16:58,149 It's strange to kill your dance partner... 227 00:16:58,284 --> 00:17:00,585 but that's what I did. 228 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,587 I did it because the world is strange. 229 00:17:02,722 --> 00:17:05,690 Because the world does not allow you to make up your own rules... 230 00:17:05,825 --> 00:17:07,859 based on how you would wish things to be. 231 00:17:07,994 --> 00:17:10,662 Because this is a world where no matter who you are... 232 00:17:10,796 --> 00:17:13,198 your happiness, your survival... 233 00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:16,434 is based on sacrifice. 234 00:17:16,569 --> 00:17:20,305 Sweet, bleeding sacrifice. 235 00:17:35,254 --> 00:17:37,255 Nice work, son. 236 00:17:38,624 --> 00:17:41,526 Very nice. 237 00:17:41,661 --> 00:17:43,728 How many you got? 238 00:17:43,863 --> 00:17:45,530 About a hundred. 239 00:17:45,665 --> 00:17:48,833 I'll take 'em all. 240 00:17:48,968 --> 00:17:50,635 Great! 241 00:17:52,538 --> 00:17:55,540 Hey! Stop! 242 00:17:55,675 --> 00:17:57,242 Hey. 243 00:17:57,376 --> 00:17:58,209 Howdy there. 244 00:17:58,344 --> 00:17:59,511 Howdy. 245 00:17:59,645 --> 00:18:02,447 Hi . My name's Kernie. 246 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:04,583 And, uh, this is Bernie... 247 00:18:04,717 --> 00:18:07,052 and Marlene and Charlene and Darlene... 248 00:18:07,186 --> 00:18:09,688 and this one right here is Ernie... 249 00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:12,057 except we call him Hemingway for short. 250 00:18:12,191 --> 00:18:13,291 I'm Gus. 251 00:18:13,426 --> 00:18:14,859 Oh, yeah . Yeah, yeah, we know. 252 00:18:14,994 --> 00:18:17,262 Yeah, you live right up there, upstream 253 00:18:17,396 --> 00:18:18,396 by the reef forest. 254 00:18:18,531 --> 00:18:21,666 Hey, uh... 255 00:18:21,801 --> 00:18:22,901 maybe, do you guys... 256 00:18:23,035 --> 00:18:25,937 want some fish, smoked fish-- 257 00:18:26,072 --> 00:18:27,205 Yeah ! Yeah! 258 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:29,174 No, no, no. Don't grab, don't grab. 259 00:18:29,308 --> 00:18:33,178 Well, while you guys pick at that, I'm gonna... 260 00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:34,145 move on down the road. 261 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,614 Oh, wait. No, no, no. 262 00:18:35,748 --> 00:18:38,984 We got some stuff for you. Just wait right here. 263 00:18:43,456 --> 00:18:45,090 Hey, you like fishing? 264 00:18:45,224 --> 00:18:47,626 If you ever want a lesson or anything, you know... 265 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,461 you can just come by my cabin. 266 00:18:50,830 --> 00:18:51,496 Here you go. 267 00:18:51,631 --> 00:18:52,864 Oh, whoa. 268 00:18:52,999 --> 00:18:54,833 These are brand-new, so they're really good. 269 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:56,301 Wow, thank you. Okay. Wow. 270 00:18:56,435 --> 00:18:57,736 Hello. 271 00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:00,572 Wow. This is really-- I don't-- I can't-- 272 00:19:00,706 --> 00:19:02,874 Oh, no, no, no. It's good, it's good. 273 00:19:03,009 --> 00:19:04,109 It's great. 274 00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:05,243 You're fine. 275 00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:06,344 Hi, I'm Gus. 276 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:07,545 Yeah, I know. 277 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:08,980 Thank you. 278 00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:11,650 Bye. 279 00:19:11,784 --> 00:19:13,518 Thank you. Nice meeting you. 280 00:19:29,969 --> 00:19:32,103 Nice job, Rodney. 281 00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:40,505 Alfred I promise... 282 00:20:40,639 --> 00:20:42,741 I'll eat something else tomorrow. 283 00:21:32,191 --> 00:21:34,793 Abe, are you out there? 284 00:21:34,927 --> 00:21:38,263 Abe! Are you all right? 285 00:21:38,397 --> 00:21:40,431 Hey, have you seen a lone fisherman? 286 00:21:40,566 --> 00:21:43,434 Sorry. I haven't seen anyone. 287 00:21:43,569 --> 00:21:45,837 Abe! 288 00:21:45,971 --> 00:21:50,575 Abe! 289 00:21:50,709 --> 00:21:54,379 Abe, where are you? 290 00:21:54,513 --> 00:21:57,415 Abe, come on! 291 00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:02,320 Abe! 292 00:22:58,544 --> 00:22:59,711 Oh! 293 00:23:12,258 --> 00:23:14,125 Oh! 294 00:24:24,763 --> 00:24:28,333 There's one thing you can say about nature. 295 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:32,904 If you make one lousy rule to describe it... 296 00:24:33,038 --> 00:24:37,008 it'll contradict you even if it has to bust its ass to do so. 297 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:41,879 And so what? If anybody ever discovered the real laws of nature... 298 00:24:42,014 --> 00:24:44,215 nature would rear back and strike him dead... 299 00:24:44,350 --> 00:24:45,883 before he could pass on the news. 300 00:24:46,018 --> 00:24:47,752 Jesus Christ. 301 00:24:47,886 --> 00:24:50,455 No. I think his name is Abe. 302 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:55,293 Maybe Abe knew. 303 00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:57,962 Maybe he had just figured the whole world out... 304 00:24:58,097 --> 00:25:01,432 and was about to tell me as I floated past. 305 00:25:01,567 --> 00:25:04,502 But God caught wind of it and stuck out His invisible foot... 306 00:25:04,636 --> 00:25:07,138 tripped and drowned him. 307 00:25:09,308 --> 00:25:12,377 If the fool only knew how to swim. 308 00:25:24,390 --> 00:25:27,892 Easy, friend. 309 00:25:28,027 --> 00:25:31,329 Let's see if we can thaw you out. 310 00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:40,071 I am Titus. 311 00:25:40,205 --> 00:25:44,008 Titus I rving Gerrard. At your service. 312 00:25:44,143 --> 00:25:47,445 Nice to meet you . I... 313 00:25:47,579 --> 00:25:48,780 am simply Gus. 314 00:25:48,914 --> 00:25:50,715 Simply Gus? I don't think so. 315 00:25:50,849 --> 00:25:52,283 Anyone who knows the secrets... 316 00:25:52,418 --> 00:25:54,018 to the catches you made today... 317 00:25:54,153 --> 00:25:55,253 is not simply anything. 318 00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:57,088 There's no secrets to those catches. 319 00:25:57,222 --> 00:25:59,357 The trout I caught on a wet fly. 320 00:25:59,491 --> 00:26:01,726 The corpse I caught on a soggy dry. 321 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:03,094 Yes, well... 322 00:26:03,228 --> 00:26:06,397 you've done old Abe's family some service... 323 00:26:06,532 --> 00:26:07,865 by collecting his remains. 324 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,802 And since we're all bodily destined for corpsehood... 325 00:26:10,936 --> 00:26:13,171 and spiritually possessed of immortal souls... 326 00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:16,441 I see no reason to let the proximity of corpses ruin our day. 327 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:19,077 If you think we're all possessed by immortal souls... 328 00:26:19,211 --> 00:26:20,611 I'd sure like to see them. 329 00:26:20,746 --> 00:26:23,815 Maybe you're looking in the wrong places. 330 00:26:35,527 --> 00:26:38,463 For clear vision. 331 00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:40,131 Thanks. 332 00:26:40,265 --> 00:26:42,600 M m-hm. 333 00:26:42,734 --> 00:26:46,337 And uh, thanks for the ride. 334 00:27:25,577 --> 00:27:27,378 A fisherman is dead. 335 00:27:30,516 --> 00:27:34,018 Everyone I know will one day be dead. 336 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:35,953 What can I do about it? 337 00:27:36,088 --> 00:27:38,990 Death is the most natural thing there is... 338 00:27:39,124 --> 00:27:41,726 and we all have a knack for it. The only question is... 339 00:27:41,860 --> 00:27:45,630 when we'll master it. Doesn't matter what we do... 340 00:27:45,764 --> 00:27:48,232 or what we don't do. 341 00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:55,673 This is no passing thought. 342 00:27:55,807 --> 00:28:00,178 It's a gnawing emptiness more real than the cold. 343 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:21,832 This is bullshit. 344 00:28:23,835 --> 00:28:26,070 Ma tossed the baby rabbit skeleton... 345 00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:27,872 I had hanging in my closet. 346 00:28:35,581 --> 00:28:37,515 ls that tonight's dreefee? 347 00:28:37,649 --> 00:28:38,916 Yep. 348 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:40,818 I had to get a new one. 349 00:28:40,953 --> 00:28:44,288 Whatever helps you sleep, Bill Bob. 350 00:28:44,423 --> 00:28:45,456 Gussy? 351 00:28:45,591 --> 00:28:48,292 Bill Bob? 352 00:28:48,427 --> 00:28:50,027 I thought it might make you feel better... 353 00:28:50,162 --> 00:28:52,163 to explain that you've got a garden angel. 354 00:28:52,297 --> 00:28:53,598 You mean guardian angel? 355 00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:56,801 Nah . See, you think you're alone. 356 00:28:56,935 --> 00:28:59,804 But you're not. You've got a garden angel... 357 00:28:59,938 --> 00:29:02,240 that's your twin. 358 00:29:02,374 --> 00:29:04,075 It's called a guardian angel. 359 00:29:04,209 --> 00:29:06,577 No. I'm talking about a garden angel. 360 00:29:06,712 --> 00:29:09,814 It's like your shadow. 361 00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:28,532 Dreefee. 362 00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:45,583 Garden angel. 363 00:29:45,717 --> 00:29:49,220 Gussy, garden angels come from the ground... 364 00:29:49,354 --> 00:29:50,888 like carrots. 365 00:29:51,023 --> 00:29:52,923 When they first come out of the ground... 366 00:29:53,058 --> 00:29:55,092 into the garden world, they're very old... 367 00:29:55,227 --> 00:29:56,827 or hurt, or sick. 368 00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:58,529 And the longer the angels live there... 369 00:29:58,664 --> 00:29:59,897 the younger and smaller they grow 370 00:30:00,032 --> 00:30:01,465 and happier and friendlier they get. 371 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,100 When they get little little... 372 00:30:03,235 --> 00:30:06,103 they disappear out of the garden world and into our world... 373 00:30:06,238 --> 00:30:07,705 and we trade places. 374 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:09,106 We what? 375 00:30:09,241 --> 00:30:11,442 We trade places with our twin. 376 00:30:11,576 --> 00:30:13,477 We go there and our twin comes here. 377 00:30:13,612 --> 00:30:16,781 We journey up and up through a long black tunnel... 378 00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:19,517 till we reach the garden angel grounds. 379 00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:21,519 Sprout up like carrots. 380 00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:24,021 Trade back and forth. 381 00:30:24,156 --> 00:30:28,426 Does knowing this make you feel a little less lonely, Gussy? 382 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,261 Yeah, Bill Bob. 383 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:32,129 Thanks. 384 00:32:51,503 --> 00:32:52,703 Oh, sorry. 385 00:32:52,838 --> 00:32:56,307 Uh, I'm, uh-- 386 00:32:56,441 --> 00:32:57,975 Don't get scared. 387 00:32:58,109 --> 00:33:03,214 I'm just-- I'm just a marmless misher-- 388 00:33:03,348 --> 00:33:06,417 I just came here to go swimming. 389 00:33:13,058 --> 00:33:14,358 Oops. 390 00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:16,227 I gotta go. 391 00:33:16,361 --> 00:33:18,529 You know, um-- 392 00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:20,798 Do not-- Uh. 393 00:33:20,932 --> 00:33:22,933 Bye. 394 00:33:36,715 --> 00:33:38,015 Hey! 395 00:33:38,149 --> 00:33:40,851 You all right up there? 396 00:33:40,986 --> 00:33:42,219 Yeah. 397 00:33:42,354 --> 00:33:45,155 Well, are you hurt? 398 00:33:45,290 --> 00:33:47,825 I-- No-- No! 399 00:33:49,861 --> 00:33:52,162 Can you get down? 400 00:33:52,297 --> 00:33:54,832 No. 401 00:33:54,966 --> 00:33:57,968 Why not? 402 00:33:58,103 --> 00:33:59,870 Just 'cause. 403 00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:01,205 All right, mummy mouth. 404 00:34:01,339 --> 00:34:03,307 If that's all you got for me, good luck. 405 00:34:03,441 --> 00:34:06,243 No, no, no. Don't go. 406 00:34:06,378 --> 00:34:07,978 Why not? 407 00:34:08,113 --> 00:34:09,780 "No life, good scholar... 408 00:34:09,915 --> 00:34:12,349 "no life so happy and so pleasant... 409 00:34:12,484 --> 00:34:14,818 "as the life of a well-governed angler. 410 00:34:14,953 --> 00:34:16,820 "So we may say that God never did make... 411 00:34:16,955 --> 00:34:20,190 "a more calm, quiet... 412 00:34:20,325 --> 00:34:24,795 innocent recreation than angling ." 413 00:34:24,930 --> 00:34:26,430 I don't suppose he did. 414 00:34:26,565 --> 00:34:29,767 And now, I think it's time... 415 00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:31,602 for you to repair to your angle rod... 416 00:34:31,736 --> 00:34:34,405 which should not be left in the water to fish for itself. 417 00:34:34,539 --> 00:34:36,807 Oh, yeah, is that what we've been doing, huh? 418 00:34:36,942 --> 00:34:39,476 Funny, 'cause I thought... 419 00:34:39,611 --> 00:34:41,378 I was trying to catch me a steelhead. 420 00:34:41,513 --> 00:34:45,416 And you, what are you doing here? 421 00:34:45,550 --> 00:34:48,686 I am a fisherman, but I only came here to swim. 422 00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:51,522 If you're a fisherman, where's your gear? 423 00:34:51,656 --> 00:34:54,325 My gear is at home, on the Tamanawis. 424 00:34:54,459 --> 00:34:58,929 "But let us say grace and fall to breakfast. 425 00:34:59,064 --> 00:35:00,497 What say you, scholar?" 426 00:35:00,632 --> 00:35:02,333 You can say grace all you want. 427 00:35:02,467 --> 00:35:04,301 Just don't fall to breakfast, please. 428 00:35:04,436 --> 00:35:07,404 Why not? 429 00:35:07,539 --> 00:35:09,540 Because you're gonna break your neck... 430 00:35:09,674 --> 00:35:12,376 before I figure out that lingo of yours. 431 00:35:12,510 --> 00:35:16,914 It's Zizak Waltley. I mean Zisac Walters-- 432 00:35:17,048 --> 00:35:19,116 lzaak Walton? 433 00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:22,553 Yes! 434 00:35:22,687 --> 00:35:24,655 And what is your name? 435 00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:26,323 Crawl me Gust. 436 00:35:26,458 --> 00:35:28,826 Wh-Wh-Wh-What's your name? 437 00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:35,432 Eddy. 438 00:35:35,567 --> 00:35:37,501 Just Eddy. Nice to meet you. 439 00:35:37,636 --> 00:35:41,205 Eddy, like the swirvles in the river wattle. 440 00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:43,641 I wish. 441 00:35:43,775 --> 00:35:45,576 No. 442 00:35:45,710 --> 00:35:47,778 Eddy like my dad, Edwin. 443 00:35:51,249 --> 00:35:52,983 You got-- You got-- You got a bite. 444 00:35:53,118 --> 00:35:54,518 Hm? 445 00:36:23,915 --> 00:36:25,449 Where'd you go? 446 00:38:02,514 --> 00:38:04,348 Aiee! 447 00:38:04,482 --> 00:38:07,651 Sacajawea Argeiphontes! I am wounded. 448 00:38:07,786 --> 00:38:08,819 Titus? 449 00:38:21,065 --> 00:38:23,867 The Sufi Attar has written... 450 00:38:24,002 --> 00:38:27,204 "One tiny fly which entered the ear of Nimrod... 451 00:38:27,338 --> 00:38:29,873 troubled the brain of that idiot for centuries." 452 00:38:30,008 --> 00:38:33,777 Please, Gus. Spare me Nimrod's fate. 453 00:38:35,947 --> 00:38:37,214 It's hopeless. 454 00:38:37,348 --> 00:38:39,750 I'll never catch one of those beautiful trout. 455 00:38:39,884 --> 00:38:41,852 Whoops. You just used one of the two words... 456 00:38:41,986 --> 00:38:45,556 that should be deleted from every true fisherman's vocabulary. 457 00:38:45,690 --> 00:38:46,490 Hopeless? 458 00:38:46,624 --> 00:38:49,126 No. Always and never. 459 00:38:51,529 --> 00:38:52,396 How's it feel? 460 00:38:52,530 --> 00:38:53,864 Eerie, thanks. 461 00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:54,998 Don't mention it. 462 00:38:55,133 --> 00:38:58,035 Consider it de-mentioned. 463 00:38:58,169 --> 00:39:01,104 What's that? 464 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,240 It's a long, dull story. 465 00:39:03,374 --> 00:39:06,009 If I'm not mistaken, I've seen that look before. 466 00:39:06,144 --> 00:39:09,880 ls there a woman in this? 467 00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:13,150 Twice she slipped away now. 468 00:39:13,284 --> 00:39:15,719 She's uncatchable. 469 00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:18,388 Uncatchable as in never? 470 00:39:18,523 --> 00:39:21,525 She's not a fish, Titus. 471 00:39:21,659 --> 00:39:24,027 Maybe not, but it certainly sounds to me... 472 00:39:24,162 --> 00:39:26,129 like you're telling the story of the one that got away. 473 00:39:26,264 --> 00:39:28,332 Live the rest of my life without ever seeing... 474 00:39:28,466 --> 00:39:30,133 the beautiful fisher girl again? 475 00:39:30,268 --> 00:39:33,837 That's-- that's a pretty miserable prospect. 476 00:39:33,972 --> 00:39:35,305 Well-- 477 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,207 I guess there's nothing left to do... 478 00:39:37,342 --> 00:39:39,710 but just drink till I die. 479 00:39:41,512 --> 00:39:44,715 I'll admit there is no cure for a soul in your condition... 480 00:39:44,849 --> 00:39:48,685 but there are three consolations. 481 00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:51,421 Okay. 482 00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:54,424 One is hope. You may find her again. 483 00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:56,159 Yeah, fat chance. 484 00:39:56,294 --> 00:39:59,363 Gus, if she's as beautiful as you say she is-- 485 00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:01,565 She's twice as beautiful as I say she is. 486 00:40:01,699 --> 00:40:04,635 She knows your name. She knows the river. 487 00:40:04,769 --> 00:40:05,769 She may find you. 488 00:40:05,904 --> 00:40:07,671 Yeah . We may grow wings. 489 00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,806 We might. 490 00:40:09,941 --> 00:40:14,211 Okay. What are these other two consolations? 491 00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:17,614 Well, you've already put down a healthy dose of the second. 492 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:19,983 The third, however, requires more aptitude. 493 00:40:20,118 --> 00:40:22,185 What kind of aptitudes? 494 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,687 Philosophical aptitude. 495 00:40:23,821 --> 00:40:26,857 Titus, I know how to philosophize... 496 00:40:26,991 --> 00:40:29,559 as well as you know how to fly cast. 497 00:40:29,694 --> 00:40:32,596 I think you should get plowed tonight. 498 00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:36,967 And tomorrow, we begin philosophizing. 499 00:40:37,101 --> 00:40:38,168 I just told you... 500 00:40:38,303 --> 00:40:39,937 I don't know how to philosophize. 501 00:40:40,071 --> 00:40:43,640 Well, and I don't know how to fish. 502 00:40:43,775 --> 00:40:45,575 Okay. So? 503 00:40:45,710 --> 00:40:47,878 So we teach each other. 504 00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:52,416 What have I got to lose? 505 00:40:52,550 --> 00:40:55,919 Your unhappiness. 506 00:40:56,054 --> 00:40:58,088 Yeah, right. 507 00:41:03,328 --> 00:41:04,494 What is that? 508 00:41:04,629 --> 00:41:07,331 ls that an imitation of a grasshopper? 509 00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:13,670 This is an abstract representation... 510 00:41:13,805 --> 00:41:18,542 of a fat tourist on a golf course. 511 00:41:18,676 --> 00:41:21,878 It's called Bermuda shorts. 512 00:41:22,013 --> 00:41:24,081 Here, fishy. 513 00:41:24,215 --> 00:41:27,217 I like it. What say we migrate to a watering hole... 514 00:41:27,352 --> 00:41:29,953 a little closer to civilization? 515 00:41:30,088 --> 00:41:31,455 To Portland? 516 00:41:31,589 --> 00:41:33,023 Sure. 517 00:41:33,157 --> 00:41:35,959 The way that goes ahead often looks as if it went back. 518 00:41:36,094 --> 00:41:38,662 I just want to go ahead and find Eddy. 519 00:41:39,964 --> 00:41:41,298 Come on. 520 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,434 Titus? 521 00:42:18,803 --> 00:42:19,803 Titus! 522 00:42:19,937 --> 00:42:22,572 Yes? 523 00:42:22,707 --> 00:42:24,207 Ah. 524 00:42:24,342 --> 00:42:25,776 This your dog? 525 00:42:25,910 --> 00:42:26,977 Yes. 526 00:42:27,111 --> 00:42:29,679 Well, he's kind of staring at me. 527 00:42:29,814 --> 00:42:30,814 So? 528 00:42:30,948 --> 00:42:32,349 Does he bite? Can I move? Or-- 529 00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:33,650 Why won't he just go away? 530 00:42:33,785 --> 00:42:36,553 He-- He doesn't bite without cause. 531 00:42:36,687 --> 00:42:38,321 But, uh, you should move. 532 00:42:38,456 --> 00:42:39,723 You're in Descartes chair. 533 00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:42,426 Easy there, buddy. 534 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,296 I'm just gonna move over to the couch. 535 00:42:46,431 --> 00:42:48,432 And then Descartes' silly chair... 536 00:42:48,566 --> 00:42:51,101 will be all fine. 537 00:42:54,806 --> 00:42:55,872 Uh, Titus? 538 00:42:56,007 --> 00:42:59,609 The dog's in Descartes' chair now. 539 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:02,045 And he's rocking. Should I tell him to get down? 540 00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:05,148 No, you shouldn't. The dog is Descartes. 541 00:43:05,283 --> 00:43:08,151 Oh. 542 00:43:08,286 --> 00:43:09,753 Well. 543 00:43:09,887 --> 00:43:11,221 This is amazing. 544 00:43:11,355 --> 00:43:13,590 How did you teach him to rock a chair like that? 545 00:43:13,724 --> 00:43:16,193 Don't make a stew about it, Gus. 546 00:43:16,327 --> 00:43:18,662 You'll only confuse him. 547 00:43:18,796 --> 00:43:21,731 Descartes' immediate goal is humanity... 548 00:43:21,866 --> 00:43:23,934 as surely as ours is divinity. 549 00:43:24,068 --> 00:43:27,037 What? 550 00:43:27,171 --> 00:43:28,405 Sorry. I guess... 551 00:43:28,539 --> 00:43:30,874 I'm just from the orthodox school, you know? 552 00:43:31,008 --> 00:43:35,212 Fido, Rover, fetch, roll over. 553 00:43:35,346 --> 00:43:38,081 Well, Gus... 554 00:43:38,216 --> 00:43:40,851 are you ready to fish? 555 00:43:40,985 --> 00:43:42,352 Fish for what? 556 00:43:42,487 --> 00:43:43,687 For happiness. 557 00:43:43,821 --> 00:43:48,358 And where do you fish for that? 558 00:43:48,493 --> 00:43:51,328 You believe that stuff? 559 00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:53,897 I'm not sane, Gus. 560 00:43:54,031 --> 00:43:56,500 I believe in the rivers of living water. 561 00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:59,436 I believe our souls swim in that water. 562 00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:03,440 I believe that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohamed 563 00:44:03,574 --> 00:44:05,542 are the savor in that water. 564 00:44:05,676 --> 00:44:07,611 Wish I believed that. 565 00:44:07,745 --> 00:44:11,248 And why don't you? 566 00:44:11,382 --> 00:44:13,283 Bait or fly. 567 00:44:13,417 --> 00:44:15,352 Fried or scrambled. 568 00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:16,720 Jesus or Mohamed. 569 00:44:16,854 --> 00:44:18,221 I mean, does it really make any difference? 570 00:44:18,356 --> 00:44:21,725 Does it really matter? 571 00:44:21,859 --> 00:44:24,261 Where are all these sages and buddhas holing up... 572 00:44:24,395 --> 00:44:27,397 now when we really need 'em? 573 00:44:27,532 --> 00:44:30,734 Well, would you know one if you met one? 574 00:44:30,868 --> 00:44:32,702 Come on, Titus. 575 00:44:32,837 --> 00:44:34,938 Even lzaak Walton talks about the goodness... 576 00:44:35,072 --> 00:44:36,473 of the God of nature. 577 00:44:36,607 --> 00:44:39,009 I've never seen Him, and I've fished in ten states. 578 00:44:39,143 --> 00:44:41,411 Whoever, whatever, wherever He is or isn't... 579 00:44:41,546 --> 00:44:43,213 if He really wants me to notice Him... 580 00:44:43,347 --> 00:44:45,515 maybe He should stop being so scarce. 581 00:44:45,650 --> 00:44:49,252 All right. Why can't a duffer like me catch a fish? 582 00:44:50,488 --> 00:44:52,222 lsn't the answer obvious? 583 00:44:52,356 --> 00:44:54,858 lsn't it because at my present level of skill... 584 00:44:54,992 --> 00:44:57,527 the fish would have to be so damn dumb... 585 00:44:57,662 --> 00:45:00,330 and utterly unelusive as to be not worth catching? 586 00:45:00,464 --> 00:45:02,098 And how much more elusive... 587 00:45:02,233 --> 00:45:04,768 should a thing as wondrous as a soul be? 588 00:45:04,902 --> 00:45:08,371 Fishermen should be the easiest of men to convince... 589 00:45:08,506 --> 00:45:11,942 to search for their souls, because fishing is nothing but... 590 00:45:12,076 --> 00:45:13,643 the pursuit of the elusive. 591 00:45:13,778 --> 00:45:17,614 How can you be so patient in searching for fish... 592 00:45:17,748 --> 00:45:20,217 and so hasty to write off your soul... 593 00:45:20,351 --> 00:45:22,686 because you can't see it? 594 00:46:43,301 --> 00:46:45,335 Hi. 595 00:46:45,469 --> 00:46:48,338 Yeah . Um... 596 00:46:48,472 --> 00:46:51,274 I was looking for a girl named Eddy... 597 00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:52,876 who works for you. 598 00:46:53,010 --> 00:46:56,046 She-- She worked at your casting pool... 599 00:46:56,180 --> 00:47:00,984 at that angling fair a couple of months ago? 600 00:47:01,118 --> 00:47:03,053 She got a new job? 601 00:47:03,187 --> 00:47:05,155 Okay. Well, could you maybe tell me... 602 00:47:05,289 --> 00:47:07,290 you know, where she's working now? 603 00:47:07,425 --> 00:47:11,261 No, because of privacy issues. Right. 604 00:47:14,198 --> 00:47:18,601 Well, is there a supervisor that I could talk to or something? 605 00:47:43,661 --> 00:47:46,396 You must be the only living thing left in here. 606 00:47:57,475 --> 00:48:00,477 I'm thinking about an ant. That sound good? 607 00:49:41,745 --> 00:49:45,081 Do you think the soul strikes harder early in the morning... 608 00:49:45,216 --> 00:49:46,416 and late in the evening... 609 00:49:46,550 --> 00:49:47,550 kind of like fish? 610 00:49:47,685 --> 00:49:49,853 Could be. 611 00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:51,488 Okay. So how do you suppose... 612 00:49:51,622 --> 00:49:52,922 I ought to fish for mine? 613 00:49:53,057 --> 00:49:55,558 With a soul pole, I suppose. 614 00:49:55,693 --> 00:49:57,560 Where do I get one? 615 00:49:57,695 --> 00:49:59,395 Right here's good. 616 00:49:59,530 --> 00:50:00,797 This where you got yours? 617 00:50:00,931 --> 00:50:01,898 I got mine here. 618 00:50:02,032 --> 00:50:05,502 You got yours in there. 619 00:50:11,642 --> 00:50:14,811 I still can't figure out where this soul pole is. 620 00:50:14,945 --> 00:50:15,979 Shall I show you? 621 00:50:16,113 --> 00:50:16,846 Can you? 622 00:50:16,981 --> 00:50:18,348 I can by analogy. 623 00:50:18,482 --> 00:50:20,850 But you'll have to answer a few questions first. 624 00:50:20,985 --> 00:50:22,352 Fire away. 625 00:50:22,486 --> 00:50:24,120 All right. 626 00:50:24,255 --> 00:50:28,057 Where is Rodney, your trusty fishing rod... 627 00:50:28,192 --> 00:50:29,192 right now? 628 00:50:29,326 --> 00:50:30,693 At this moment... 629 00:50:30,828 --> 00:50:33,396 he is hanging on my cabin wall. 630 00:50:33,531 --> 00:50:34,964 Who made Rodney... 631 00:50:35,099 --> 00:50:36,733 from an indistinguishable blank... 632 00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:39,536 into the singing rod he is today? 633 00:50:39,670 --> 00:50:40,870 I did. 634 00:50:41,005 --> 00:50:43,172 Yes. And who controls his destiny? 635 00:50:43,307 --> 00:50:44,941 Decides when he'll hang on the wall... 636 00:50:45,075 --> 00:50:46,776 or ride in the back of the pickup truck... 637 00:50:46,911 --> 00:50:48,144 or cast for trout? 638 00:50:48,279 --> 00:50:51,180 And who will, one day, decide he's worn out... 639 00:50:51,315 --> 00:50:53,583 and consign him to a funeral pyre? 640 00:50:53,717 --> 00:50:54,584 I will. 641 00:50:54,718 --> 00:50:55,752 Excellent. 642 00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:58,621 Can you get me a couple of cues? 643 00:50:58,756 --> 00:50:59,889 Yeah . Two of them. 644 00:51:00,024 --> 00:51:02,926 Now, who do you suppose... 645 00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:06,062 created you... 646 00:51:06,196 --> 00:51:08,498 into the living fisherman you are today? 647 00:51:08,632 --> 00:51:09,632 I wish I knew. 648 00:51:09,767 --> 00:51:10,767 Excellent! 649 00:51:10,901 --> 00:51:12,335 And who controls your destiny? 650 00:51:12,469 --> 00:51:13,870 Wish I knew that, too. 651 00:51:14,004 --> 00:51:16,806 Very good . And who will, one day... 652 00:51:16,941 --> 00:51:19,242 consign your body to a wormy grave? 653 00:51:19,376 --> 00:51:20,510 I wish I knew that, too. 654 00:51:20,644 --> 00:51:21,511 Perfect! 655 00:51:21,645 --> 00:51:22,812 Why is that perfect? 656 00:51:22,947 --> 00:51:25,515 All I'm saying is, "Oh, I wish I knew." 657 00:51:25,649 --> 00:51:27,917 Come on . Don't you want me to say... 658 00:51:28,052 --> 00:51:30,320 "God does it," or, "My soul does it"-- 659 00:51:30,454 --> 00:51:34,257 Gus, I'm a philosopher. I'm not an evangelist. 660 00:51:34,391 --> 00:51:37,994 It's the "I wish I knew" that is crucial. 661 00:51:38,128 --> 00:51:40,964 I mean, to say, "God did it," and then just leave it at that? 662 00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:44,133 That's to abandon the search before it's even begun. 663 00:51:44,268 --> 00:51:46,936 Believe me, no one's ever discovered any truth... 664 00:51:47,071 --> 00:51:51,574 by barfing up Sunday school answers to questions. 665 00:51:51,709 --> 00:51:54,210 Now, you and I agreed, did we not... 666 00:51:54,345 --> 00:51:56,646 that Rodney is oblivious... 667 00:51:56,780 --> 00:51:59,215 to everything save some weight and varnish. 668 00:51:59,350 --> 00:52:00,450 We did. 669 00:52:00,584 --> 00:52:02,919 Therefore, does it follow... 670 00:52:03,053 --> 00:52:05,521 that he is just as oblivious... 671 00:52:05,656 --> 00:52:07,323 to Gus? 672 00:52:07,458 --> 00:52:09,459 Even though Gus is his maker? 673 00:52:09,593 --> 00:52:12,729 Even though Gus controls his destiny? 674 00:52:12,863 --> 00:52:14,263 Even though Gus is-- 675 00:52:14,398 --> 00:52:17,867 Let's go ahead and call it. Gus is his essence. 676 00:52:18,002 --> 00:52:19,002 Yes, it follows. 677 00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:21,704 Then therefore, is it possible... 678 00:52:21,839 --> 00:52:23,673 that maybe you and I... 679 00:52:23,807 --> 00:52:24,974 are just as oblivious... 680 00:52:25,109 --> 00:52:26,576 to the presence of a Creator? 681 00:52:26,710 --> 00:52:30,013 Just as oblivious to a controller of destiny? 682 00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:32,915 Just as oblivious to our essence? 683 00:52:33,050 --> 00:52:36,252 An essence that wields you and I even more deftly... 684 00:52:36,387 --> 00:52:37,520 than you wield Rodney. 685 00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:41,057 Sure, it's possible. 686 00:52:41,191 --> 00:52:42,325 Well, there you have it. 687 00:52:42,459 --> 00:52:44,360 Rodney is to Gus... 688 00:52:44,495 --> 00:52:46,796 as Gus is to his essence. 689 00:52:46,930 --> 00:52:49,265 You name the essence soul and you, sir... 690 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,933 have your soul pole. 691 00:52:51,068 --> 00:52:53,636 Me? 692 00:52:53,771 --> 00:52:56,572 So, no matter how hopelessly stupid I am... 693 00:52:56,707 --> 00:53:01,611 in comparison to my essence or my soul... 694 00:53:01,745 --> 00:53:05,782 I still have a profound purpose. 695 00:53:05,916 --> 00:53:08,184 I like that, Titus. 696 00:53:08,318 --> 00:53:09,752 I like that. 697 00:53:09,887 --> 00:53:11,120 Thank you. 698 00:53:11,255 --> 00:53:14,924 I swiped it from Plotinus. 699 00:53:16,593 --> 00:53:19,328 ♫ Wait till I wake up ♫ 700 00:53:19,463 --> 00:53:22,532 ♫ Wish something could interrupt ♫ 701 00:53:22,666 --> 00:53:28,071 ♫ The dream for much too Iong I've Iingered in ♫ 702 00:54:13,183 --> 00:54:14,117 Hold on! 703 00:54:14,251 --> 00:54:16,018 Hang onto it. Easy. 704 00:54:16,153 --> 00:54:19,856 Easy. Don't force it, don't force it. 705 00:54:19,990 --> 00:54:21,424 Easy. Easy. 706 00:54:26,730 --> 00:54:30,099 That's a real nice jack salmon, son. 707 00:54:30,234 --> 00:54:33,503 It's not a jack. It's a sea-run cutthroat. 708 00:54:33,637 --> 00:54:35,471 Oh. 709 00:54:50,988 --> 00:54:52,054 What are you doing? 710 00:54:52,189 --> 00:54:54,490 I'm getting skunked, God damn it. 711 00:54:54,625 --> 00:54:56,392 I've been fishing all day... 712 00:54:56,527 --> 00:54:59,962 and I haven't even gotten a bounce. 713 00:55:00,097 --> 00:55:01,731 I'm plum jinxed. 714 00:55:01,865 --> 00:55:02,999 Or plum dumb. 715 00:55:03,133 --> 00:55:04,300 What's that? 716 00:55:04,434 --> 00:55:07,336 Uh, done. 717 00:55:10,507 --> 00:55:12,275 I got here early in the morning... 718 00:55:12,409 --> 00:55:14,110 nary a strike. 719 00:55:14,244 --> 00:55:16,579 You come here, in ten seconds... 720 00:55:16,713 --> 00:55:18,548 zabba dabba doo. 721 00:55:18,682 --> 00:55:21,484 You land a nice jack. 722 00:55:34,097 --> 00:55:35,498 So, you... 723 00:55:35,632 --> 00:55:40,203 know any good tales about this grand sport of ours? 724 00:55:40,337 --> 00:55:41,404 Yeah. 725 00:55:41,538 --> 00:55:43,706 So, what do you know? 726 00:55:43,841 --> 00:55:45,374 If you want to catch a blueback... 727 00:55:45,509 --> 00:55:46,409 you're gonna need some lighter gear. 728 00:55:46,543 --> 00:55:48,711 You have any with you? 729 00:55:51,915 --> 00:55:56,219 I guess, uh... 730 00:55:56,353 --> 00:55:57,720 I guess we can both use my rod. 731 00:55:57,855 --> 00:55:58,988 Ah, now you're talking. 732 00:56:00,257 --> 00:56:02,158 Oh ! God dammit! 733 00:56:02,292 --> 00:56:04,160 I am sorry. I am sorry. 734 00:56:04,294 --> 00:56:05,862 It's okay, it's fine. It's fine. 735 00:56:05,996 --> 00:56:09,432 Just-- How about you just stay up here... 736 00:56:09,566 --> 00:56:14,003 and hold on to that. I'm gonna, you know, make us something up. 737 00:56:14,137 --> 00:56:15,771 Okay. 738 00:56:24,915 --> 00:56:26,849 Get yourself-- 739 00:56:26,984 --> 00:56:29,518 Get yourself a little nightcrawler there. 740 00:56:29,653 --> 00:56:30,953 Some clay. Right there. 741 00:56:31,088 --> 00:56:32,889 Just roll it up like that... 742 00:56:33,023 --> 00:56:33,990 and smooth it out. 743 00:56:34,124 --> 00:56:35,992 What's that invention called? 744 00:56:36,126 --> 00:56:40,696 A Hostess Twinkie. 745 00:56:40,831 --> 00:56:42,265 And get ready. 746 00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:58,180 I got one! I got it. I got it. 747 00:56:59,650 --> 00:57:00,917 Yeah . Don't lose it. 748 00:57:01,051 --> 00:57:02,852 I got it! I got it. 749 00:57:02,986 --> 00:57:04,854 Come on. 750 00:57:06,823 --> 00:57:07,790 You got him. 751 00:57:07,925 --> 00:57:09,025 Look at that. 752 00:57:11,228 --> 00:57:12,228 Nice. 753 00:57:12,362 --> 00:57:15,164 Oh . Oh. 754 00:57:15,299 --> 00:57:17,300 What do you say, 18 inches? 755 00:57:17,434 --> 00:57:20,836 Oh, you can tell people that's 24. 756 00:57:20,971 --> 00:57:23,439 Love it. 757 00:57:23,573 --> 00:57:25,174 Hey, I gotta rush back to town... 758 00:57:25,309 --> 00:57:27,376 and write this up for tomorrow's paper. 759 00:57:27,511 --> 00:57:29,745 For tomorrow's what? 760 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,247 Post Telegram. 761 00:57:31,381 --> 00:57:33,182 Dutch Hines. 762 00:57:33,317 --> 00:57:34,650 The F-F-Fishing Dutchman. 763 00:57:34,785 --> 00:57:35,751 You're Dutch Hines. 764 00:57:35,886 --> 00:57:37,787 Yeah . What's your name? 765 00:57:37,921 --> 00:57:39,689 I'm just Gus. 766 00:57:39,823 --> 00:57:41,791 But that's really just a nickname. 767 00:57:41,925 --> 00:57:44,694 So I wouldn't-- I would-- I wouldn't use that. 768 00:57:44,828 --> 00:57:48,230 You know, I'd like to interview you, Gus. 769 00:57:48,365 --> 00:57:51,033 Haven't had a better day's f-f-fishing... 770 00:57:51,168 --> 00:57:55,137 since I lost nine steelhead one morning on the Kilchis... 771 00:57:55,272 --> 00:57:58,708 two winters ago. I was fishing with Fuzz Gramsay. 772 00:57:58,842 --> 00:58:01,777 Yeah, I-- I remember that trip. You wrote about it 12 times. 773 00:58:01,912 --> 00:58:06,282 Yeah ! So, you wanna do an interview? 774 00:58:06,416 --> 00:58:10,086 Um, c-c-- 775 00:58:10,220 --> 00:58:12,321 Can I have one second? 776 00:58:12,456 --> 00:58:14,657 Sure. 777 00:58:19,997 --> 00:58:21,797 Dutch Hines wants to interview me. 778 00:58:21,932 --> 00:58:24,600 That idiot's got three-quarter of a million readers. 779 00:58:24,735 --> 00:58:28,137 He can write about me for weeks and not be distracted. 780 00:58:28,271 --> 00:58:30,373 Nothing's gonna distract him for months... 781 00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:33,242 'cause he's not gonna catch a fish for months. 782 00:58:33,377 --> 00:58:36,245 He made Fuzz Gramsay rich by endorsing him. 783 00:58:36,380 --> 00:58:40,850 He endorses me... 784 00:58:40,984 --> 00:58:43,953 and I'll have a thousand polers by the end of the month. 785 00:58:49,026 --> 00:58:51,694 Well, what do you say? You want to do an interview? 786 00:58:51,828 --> 00:58:54,230 Listen to this, Caroline. 787 00:58:54,364 --> 00:58:58,768 "By a stroke of dumb luck, this old dog learned a bag full of tricks... 788 00:58:58,902 --> 00:59:01,103 "from a young buck he bumped into... 789 00:59:01,238 --> 00:59:03,439 "who just might be... 790 00:59:03,573 --> 00:59:06,942 "the finest fisherman this great Northwest of ours... 791 00:59:07,077 --> 00:59:09,311 has seen in many a decade." 792 00:59:14,885 --> 00:59:20,022 "His friends call him Gus." 793 00:59:20,157 --> 00:59:22,825 "But he told us this is just a nickname." 794 00:59:22,959 --> 00:59:27,229 Okay. My real name is Antoine Chapeau. 795 00:59:27,364 --> 00:59:32,435 I'm originally from Palm Springs, California... 796 00:59:32,569 --> 00:59:34,236 where I used to manage a-- 797 00:59:34,371 --> 00:59:37,306 a beauty salon. 798 00:59:37,441 --> 00:59:38,874 And I would spend my whole day... 799 00:59:39,009 --> 00:59:42,912 just looking at women's hair. 800 00:59:43,046 --> 00:59:43,979 But you know what, Dutch? 801 00:59:44,114 --> 00:59:45,381 I thought I was going crazy... 802 00:59:45,515 --> 00:59:47,349 because I'd be looking at a woman's hair... 803 00:59:47,484 --> 00:59:50,786 and I'd be imagining five-pound tippets. 804 00:59:50,921 --> 00:59:54,190 Or algae or something. Three-pound leaders. It doesn't matter. 805 00:59:54,324 --> 00:59:58,360 Everything reminded me of--of the river. 806 00:59:58,495 --> 00:59:59,995 So finally I said, you know what? 807 01:00:00,130 --> 01:00:03,065 Antoine, this can't be healthy. 808 01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,301 So I pulled up the stakes. I moved to Oregon... 809 01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:07,336 and I just started fishing. 810 01:00:07,471 --> 01:00:09,538 All day every day, fishing. 811 01:00:09,673 --> 01:00:12,475 "And fish he does, with a passion and skill... 812 01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:14,543 "he claimed he acquired using a fly rod... 813 01:00:14,678 --> 01:00:17,179 "out in the deserts around Palm Springs. 814 01:00:17,314 --> 01:00:19,882 "This dry fishing, as he calls it, is what taught him... 815 01:00:20,016 --> 01:00:23,786 "both the incredible patience and the shamanistic approach... 816 01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,689 to the sport that characterizes him today." 817 01:00:26,823 --> 01:00:29,225 Listen, I gotta get back to the paper. Uh... 818 01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:31,160 what do you say we meet again next week... 819 01:00:31,294 --> 01:00:32,962 and you tell me some more? 820 01:00:33,096 --> 01:00:37,600 Okay. But only if you put a message in the paper for me. 821 01:00:37,734 --> 01:00:39,268 "Will the girl who ran from the guy... 822 01:00:39,402 --> 01:00:41,403 "who recited lzaak Walton in the tree... 823 01:00:41,538 --> 01:00:45,174 "please contact Gus on the other river he named. 824 01:00:45,308 --> 01:00:47,443 "He has your pole and your fish... 825 01:00:47,577 --> 01:00:49,111 "and wants to return them. 826 01:00:49,246 --> 01:00:51,046 "He's totally harmless but urges you... 827 01:00:51,181 --> 01:00:53,082 "to bring a loaded gun if scared. 828 01:00:53,216 --> 01:00:55,985 As long as you come. Thank you ." 829 01:01:16,540 --> 01:01:18,240 Gus! 830 01:01:18,375 --> 01:01:19,642 We want to go fishing. 831 01:01:19,776 --> 01:01:21,510 It's time for another lesson. 832 01:01:21,645 --> 01:01:23,345 Hey, guys. Can we do it another time? 833 01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,481 I just-- I just don't really feel like it. 834 01:01:25,615 --> 01:01:28,517 Fishing. Fishing. Fishing. 835 01:01:28,652 --> 01:01:31,353 Let's go fishing. 836 01:01:31,488 --> 01:01:33,155 Let's go. 837 01:01:33,290 --> 01:01:34,723 Here we go. 838 01:01:50,140 --> 01:01:51,173 Very nice. 839 01:01:57,113 --> 01:01:58,080 Hey, hey. 840 01:01:58,215 --> 01:01:59,148 Gimme. 841 01:01:59,282 --> 01:01:59,882 Stop. It's snagged. 842 01:02:00,016 --> 01:02:01,016 Gimme. 843 01:02:01,151 --> 01:02:02,084 What? 844 01:02:02,219 --> 01:02:03,852 It's snagged . See? 845 01:02:03,987 --> 01:02:04,887 Oh, man. 846 01:02:05,021 --> 01:02:06,422 Whoa, whoa, hey! 847 01:02:06,556 --> 01:02:07,957 Hemingway, come here. 848 01:02:08,091 --> 01:02:09,091 Come here. Hey! 849 01:02:09,226 --> 01:02:10,993 Do you wanna catch this fish? 850 01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:31,447 Just get right here. That's the spot, okay? 851 01:02:31,581 --> 01:02:34,817 Just head west. Just head west, all right? 852 01:02:34,951 --> 01:02:37,753 There you go. Good luck. 853 01:02:37,887 --> 01:02:40,522 How's it going? 854 01:02:40,657 --> 01:02:42,891 Yeah, I fish out here everyday with 'em. 855 01:02:43,026 --> 01:02:44,126 Those are good. 856 01:02:51,067 --> 01:02:52,067 Good luck. 857 01:02:52,202 --> 01:02:53,469 How's it going? 858 01:02:56,172 --> 01:02:57,273 Uh, 859 01:03:00,043 --> 01:03:02,578 Yeah. 860 01:03:02,712 --> 01:03:04,446 Uh. 861 01:03:04,581 --> 01:03:06,615 Good luck. 862 01:04:52,255 --> 01:04:56,024 See, I read that I should bring a loaded gun with me, so... 863 01:04:56,159 --> 01:04:59,128 I took your advice to the letter. 864 01:05:01,131 --> 01:05:03,465 I believe you have my pole. 865 01:05:05,568 --> 01:05:07,035 Right. 866 01:05:21,518 --> 01:05:23,385 And a fish. 867 01:05:37,500 --> 01:05:40,436 Wait, wait, wait. I--I get the pole and the fish, but... 868 01:05:43,173 --> 01:05:44,907 what's this? 869 01:05:45,041 --> 01:05:48,744 The belly reel that goes with the-- the pole. 870 01:05:54,017 --> 01:05:56,351 And how'd you know I'd come for them? 871 01:05:56,486 --> 01:05:58,353 I didn't. 872 01:06:00,457 --> 01:06:03,892 Everything in the world made me think you wouldn't. 873 01:06:12,068 --> 01:06:15,037 There is something I should tell you. 874 01:06:15,171 --> 01:06:19,241 About that day. 875 01:06:19,375 --> 01:06:21,710 I never ran. 876 01:06:21,845 --> 01:06:24,179 Huh? 877 01:06:24,314 --> 01:06:27,115 I never ran away. 878 01:06:27,250 --> 01:06:30,352 I was barefoot. So I... 879 01:06:30,487 --> 01:06:32,187 hid in the woods and... 880 01:06:32,322 --> 01:06:34,723 I saw you climb above that pole... 881 01:06:34,858 --> 01:06:36,725 where I hooked the steelhead. 882 01:06:39,596 --> 01:06:42,898 And then, I stepped on an orange... 883 01:06:45,068 --> 01:06:46,101 and this. 884 01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:53,108 See, when you came crashing along... 885 01:06:53,243 --> 01:06:55,377 you came from upstream. 886 01:06:55,512 --> 01:06:56,311 Uh-- 887 01:06:56,446 --> 01:06:57,679 And the orange-- 888 01:06:57,814 --> 01:07:01,483 Huh? And the orange and this, this telescope... 889 01:07:01,618 --> 01:07:04,620 this telescope were downstream. 890 01:07:04,754 --> 01:07:06,321 Now, I mean, come on. It doesn't take 891 01:07:06,456 --> 01:07:07,789 Sherlock freakin' Holmes-- 892 01:07:07,924 --> 01:07:08,824 Okay. 893 01:07:08,958 --> 01:07:09,958 Okay, okay, okay. 894 01:07:10,093 --> 01:07:11,793 Just listen to me for a second. 895 01:07:11,928 --> 01:07:13,328 Spying on me. While I was-- 896 01:07:13,463 --> 01:07:14,663 Okay, wait, hu-- Hold-- No-- 897 01:07:14,797 --> 01:07:15,964 While I was-- 898 01:07:16,099 --> 01:07:19,935 Hold on. Just give me a second. 899 01:07:20,069 --> 01:07:23,872 Okay, I admit that is my telescope. 900 01:07:24,007 --> 01:07:29,878 And I'm s-sorry that I was spying on you, but... 901 01:07:30,013 --> 01:07:32,014 really, I was just wandering around... 902 01:07:32,148 --> 01:07:34,883 looking for a place to swim and then... 903 01:07:37,053 --> 01:07:38,120 there was you. 904 01:07:41,457 --> 01:07:43,292 This beautiful girl. 905 01:07:43,426 --> 01:07:44,526 And you were fishing. 906 01:07:44,661 --> 01:07:46,028 And the "here goes nothing" way... 907 01:07:46,162 --> 01:07:47,729 you chucked that hazel pole... 908 01:07:47,864 --> 01:07:50,732 into the water, and the way you dove in and swam after it, I-- 909 01:07:50,867 --> 01:07:53,936 I just knew that you had some way of looking at things... 910 01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:56,038 some way of looking at life and the world... 911 01:07:56,172 --> 01:07:58,006 which is exactly the way of looking at things... 912 01:07:58,141 --> 01:07:59,875 that I've been trying to look at things. 913 01:08:00,009 --> 01:08:01,677 I n my whole life, I've only met two people... 914 01:08:01,811 --> 01:08:03,745 who have ever looked at things... 915 01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,348 any way close to that way. 916 01:08:06,482 --> 01:08:07,616 My little brother... 917 01:08:07,750 --> 01:08:09,384 and a philosopher who talks to his dog. 918 01:08:09,519 --> 01:08:12,821 And with both of them it was love at first sight, too. 919 01:08:19,128 --> 01:08:20,929 But I'm not sorry. 920 01:08:23,766 --> 01:08:25,000 When you see the most amazing... 921 01:08:25,134 --> 01:08:26,401 beautiful thing you've ever seen... 922 01:08:26,536 --> 01:08:29,104 you don't think about what's right or polite... 923 01:08:29,238 --> 01:08:31,940 or tell it to cover up. 924 01:08:32,075 --> 01:08:34,543 Because you can't stop looking. 925 01:08:34,677 --> 01:08:36,044 You s-- 926 01:08:36,179 --> 01:08:38,246 You're just helpless. 927 01:08:53,930 --> 01:08:55,230 What's so funny? 928 01:08:55,365 --> 01:08:57,466 I'm sorry. 929 01:09:00,069 --> 01:09:01,737 You. 930 01:09:01,871 --> 01:09:03,939 I n a tree. 931 01:09:04,073 --> 01:09:07,242 Spouting off stuff like... 932 01:09:07,377 --> 01:09:09,711 "Oh, good scholar" 933 01:09:09,846 --> 01:09:13,281 and that "God never made... 934 01:09:13,416 --> 01:09:16,885 "a more pure, innocent recreation... 935 01:09:17,020 --> 01:09:19,254 than angling ." 936 01:09:24,460 --> 01:09:26,628 I like that, Gus. 937 01:09:30,066 --> 01:09:32,768 Can I ask you a question? 938 01:09:32,902 --> 01:09:34,436 Yeah. 939 01:09:34,570 --> 01:09:37,973 What are you doing here? 940 01:09:38,107 --> 01:09:39,274 This is my cabin. 941 01:09:39,409 --> 01:09:41,176 Shouldn't I be asking you that? 942 01:09:41,310 --> 01:09:43,645 No. 943 01:09:43,780 --> 01:09:47,082 Not here, here. I mean-- 944 01:09:47,216 --> 01:09:49,351 Here! 945 01:09:49,485 --> 01:09:51,687 Here. 946 01:09:51,821 --> 01:09:54,089 Alone. 947 01:10:02,665 --> 01:10:05,033 Fishing. 948 01:10:07,036 --> 01:10:09,004 What are you doing here? 949 01:10:12,341 --> 01:10:14,276 Here here? 950 01:10:16,112 --> 01:10:17,879 Here here. 951 01:10:22,585 --> 01:10:25,287 Fishing. 952 01:10:28,157 --> 01:10:30,025 You know, I saw you in Portland. 953 01:10:30,159 --> 01:10:33,829 You did? Where? 954 01:10:33,963 --> 01:10:37,866 I saw you rescue that trout from that filthy creek. 955 01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:41,136 I guess you could say it made me... 956 01:10:45,675 --> 01:10:46,608 So, I drove up here... 957 01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:49,578 to see what I could see. 958 01:10:49,712 --> 01:10:51,613 And I ran into this little boy... 959 01:10:51,748 --> 01:10:56,051 who called himself Hemingway. 960 01:10:56,185 --> 01:10:57,319 And he immediately... 961 01:10:57,453 --> 01:10:59,254 launched into this epic tale... 962 01:10:59,388 --> 01:11:03,058 about a giant fish that he caught with help... 963 01:11:03,192 --> 01:11:08,063 from a certain superhero named Gus. 964 01:11:08,197 --> 01:11:10,699 Who spent seven minutes under water 965 01:11:10,833 --> 01:11:13,602 before he wrassled the fish with his bare hands. 966 01:11:13,736 --> 01:11:14,770 Bullshit. 967 01:11:14,904 --> 01:11:15,804 I know. 968 01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:18,940 That's what I figured. 969 01:11:19,075 --> 01:11:21,810 But I could see in his eyes... 970 01:11:21,944 --> 01:11:25,580 what little Hemingway thought of you... 971 01:11:25,715 --> 01:11:29,551 and it made me even more curious. 972 01:11:36,859 --> 01:11:38,059 You know, I must have read... 973 01:11:38,194 --> 01:11:40,262 that Fishing Dutchman's article... 974 01:11:40,396 --> 01:11:43,165 like, 8000 times. 975 01:11:43,299 --> 01:11:45,500 I knew it was you. 976 01:11:45,635 --> 01:11:48,804 And this time I came to see you. 977 01:11:52,041 --> 01:11:54,943 And you know what happened next? 978 01:11:55,077 --> 01:11:58,580 Yeah. 979 01:11:58,714 --> 01:12:01,116 You do? 980 01:12:01,250 --> 01:12:03,318 Yeah. 981 01:12:31,013 --> 01:12:35,150 You threw his prize fish in the fire? 982 01:12:35,284 --> 01:12:36,952 It wasn't just any fish. 983 01:12:37,086 --> 01:12:39,187 He was Nijinsky. 984 01:12:43,526 --> 01:12:45,627 That went over real well, I'm sure. 985 01:12:45,761 --> 01:12:48,964 Uh, not really. 986 01:12:49,098 --> 01:12:52,067 I haven't even spoken to either of them since. 987 01:12:52,201 --> 01:12:56,504 I don't even know why I came out here. 988 01:12:56,639 --> 01:12:59,074 Guess I just needed to get away. 989 01:12:59,208 --> 01:13:02,010 Your parents seem like an interesting match. 990 01:13:02,144 --> 01:13:05,747 I nteresting is a kind word for it. 991 01:13:24,166 --> 01:13:28,036 Bravo, Nijinsky. 992 01:13:28,170 --> 01:13:29,771 There are two stories... 993 01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:31,306 of how Nijinsky found his way... 994 01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:33,241 onto my parents' mantle. 995 01:13:33,376 --> 01:13:36,811 The one that landed my father his book deal. 996 01:13:36,946 --> 01:13:38,880 And the one that's the truth. 997 01:13:39,015 --> 01:13:41,349 Both versions begin the same way. 998 01:13:41,484 --> 01:13:42,784 With an epic struggle... 999 01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:45,020 between a determined young fly fisherman... 1000 01:13:45,154 --> 01:13:47,222 and a giant steelhead. 1001 01:13:47,356 --> 01:13:48,790 Little did either of them realize... 1002 01:13:48,925 --> 01:13:50,358 that their true nemesis... 1003 01:13:50,493 --> 01:13:53,061 was lurking somewhere down river. 1004 01:14:45,881 --> 01:14:48,483 It was my father's worst nightmare. 1005 01:14:48,617 --> 01:14:49,818 A mere plunker of worms... 1006 01:14:49,952 --> 01:14:52,053 had cost him his prized Nijinsky. 1007 01:14:52,188 --> 01:14:53,955 Whoever this crude interloper was... 1008 01:14:54,090 --> 01:14:55,223 he would have to be dealt with. 1009 01:14:55,358 --> 01:14:56,257 You-- 1010 01:14:56,392 --> 01:14:57,625 Man to man. 1011 01:14:57,760 --> 01:14:59,928 had best refrain from that pole and defend yourself. 1012 01:15:00,062 --> 01:15:01,930 Because one of us is going in that river... 1013 01:15:02,064 --> 01:15:03,565 in search of my fish! 1014 01:15:03,699 --> 01:15:05,066 So be it, slicker. 1015 01:15:05,201 --> 01:15:07,002 But I guaran-goddamn-tee ya... 1016 01:15:07,136 --> 01:15:08,703 It ain't gonna be me. 1017 01:15:11,107 --> 01:15:13,842 Come on and fight me! 1018 01:15:13,976 --> 01:15:16,544 Come on and fight me! Come on. 1019 01:15:25,755 --> 01:15:27,622 Oops. 1020 01:15:42,204 --> 01:15:44,272 As my father watched the woman... 1021 01:15:44,407 --> 01:15:46,207 reel in Nijinsky for herself... 1022 01:15:46,342 --> 01:15:47,809 he had no idea... 1023 01:15:47,943 --> 01:15:50,145 that she would become his lifetime adversary. 1024 01:15:51,547 --> 01:15:53,248 She would also become my mom. 1025 01:16:11,233 --> 01:16:14,202 Looks like you could use a little warming up. 1026 01:16:18,808 --> 01:16:21,376 My parents came to an understanding. 1027 01:16:21,510 --> 01:16:25,513 The story would be told as maybe it should have been. 1028 01:16:25,648 --> 01:16:27,248 After all, my father reasoned... 1029 01:16:27,383 --> 01:16:29,717 she did cause his six-pound tippet to snap... 1030 01:16:29,852 --> 01:16:33,121 and he had spent all that time tiring the fish out... 1031 01:16:33,255 --> 01:16:36,124 making it easy for Ma to just reel him in. 1032 01:16:41,097 --> 01:16:42,664 So the deal was sealed. 1033 01:16:42,798 --> 01:16:44,432 H2O would have his story. 1034 01:16:44,567 --> 01:16:45,867 But never again... 1035 01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:48,136 would they use anything resembling reason... 1036 01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:51,206 in their discussion of the art of angling. 1037 01:16:51,340 --> 01:16:53,541 Never again would they go fishing together... 1038 01:16:53,676 --> 01:16:58,012 and never would their marriage vows waver or weaken. 1039 01:17:04,220 --> 01:17:06,888 Darn it. 1040 01:17:10,693 --> 01:17:12,961 Fly tying is for certain a tedious task... 1041 01:17:13,095 --> 01:17:17,332 but there's no need to let it get to you like that, my love. 1042 01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:22,203 Yeah, well, it ain't the fly that's bothering me. 1043 01:17:22,338 --> 01:17:24,506 Hm . Gus. 1044 01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:26,407 I just can't help but feel... 1045 01:17:26,542 --> 01:17:29,844 like we let him go. 1046 01:17:29,979 --> 01:17:31,179 You can't keep a person... 1047 01:17:31,313 --> 01:17:34,315 in a place he doesn't want to be. 1048 01:17:34,450 --> 01:17:37,051 No, but can't you at least make it a place... 1049 01:17:37,186 --> 01:17:39,721 that they might wanna visit? 1050 01:18:15,291 --> 01:18:17,725 Cripes. 1051 01:18:35,511 --> 01:18:38,813 Give me the other one. 1052 01:19:07,643 --> 01:19:09,844 What's that? 1053 01:19:09,979 --> 01:19:14,549 Um, it's today's dreefee. 1054 01:19:14,683 --> 01:19:17,919 What'd you say? 1055 01:19:18,053 --> 01:19:20,054 When you were a kid, didn't you have... 1056 01:19:20,189 --> 01:19:21,856 you know, some stuffed animal... 1057 01:19:21,991 --> 01:19:23,558 or a ratty blanket or something... 1058 01:19:23,692 --> 01:19:24,892 that you just absolutely... 1059 01:19:25,027 --> 01:19:26,494 could not go to sleep without? 1060 01:19:28,063 --> 01:19:30,031 I had the grossest pillow... 1061 01:19:30,165 --> 01:19:31,733 that I had to take everywhere. 1062 01:19:31,867 --> 01:19:34,869 Okay. Well, Bill Bob has dreefees. 1063 01:19:35,004 --> 01:19:36,471 Okay. 1064 01:19:38,741 --> 01:19:41,743 A dreefee is a, um... 1065 01:19:41,877 --> 01:19:43,478 it's a carefully selected relic... 1066 01:19:43,612 --> 01:19:45,446 of that day's adventure. 1067 01:19:45,581 --> 01:19:47,849 So there's a different one every night. 1068 01:19:47,983 --> 01:19:50,718 And just as important as the dreefee itself... 1069 01:19:50,853 --> 01:19:54,522 is the placement of the dreefee. 1070 01:19:54,657 --> 01:19:56,658 And if that's altered in any way... 1071 01:19:56,792 --> 01:19:58,259 before Bill Bob falls asleep... 1072 01:19:58,394 --> 01:20:01,629 it has the same effect of not having one at all. 1073 01:20:01,764 --> 01:20:04,832 And he doesn't fuss, he doesn't protest, he just-- 1074 01:20:04,967 --> 01:20:07,702 doesn't go to sleep. 1075 01:20:07,836 --> 01:20:09,070 All night long. 1076 01:20:09,204 --> 01:20:10,171 M m-hm. 1077 01:20:10,306 --> 01:20:11,639 Wow. 1078 01:20:15,611 --> 01:20:17,612 There was one time that the dreefee was... 1079 01:20:17,746 --> 01:20:21,849 a--it was a dried-up dog turd. 1080 01:20:21,984 --> 01:20:24,285 And it had just-- It had been bleached white... 1081 01:20:24,420 --> 01:20:27,522 by, you know, the sun and the elements, and... 1082 01:20:27,656 --> 01:20:31,626 and it was shaped exactly like a tiny sleeping polar bear. 1083 01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:35,029 But Bill Bob said that it was a tiny sleeping polar bear. 1084 01:20:35,164 --> 01:20:38,599 And that it had been eaten by a dog and then it had proved indigestible... 1085 01:20:38,734 --> 01:20:40,301 and then it had been eliminated... 1086 01:20:40,436 --> 01:20:42,270 and due to its unmentionable... 1087 01:20:42,404 --> 01:20:44,505 experience in the dog, it was in a coma. 1088 01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:48,543 Bill Bob was going to invoke the powers of the Tooth Fairy... 1089 01:20:48,677 --> 01:20:52,814 to bring it back to life. 1090 01:20:52,948 --> 01:20:57,051 But Ma just threw the poor polar bear out the window... 1091 01:20:57,186 --> 01:20:59,020 without a question or even a glance... 1092 01:20:59,154 --> 01:21:04,192 at its miraculously sculpted bearness. 1093 01:21:04,326 --> 01:21:07,895 She didn't believe his story. 1094 01:21:08,030 --> 01:21:11,065 Guess not. 1095 01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,168 And he didn't sleep all night long? 1096 01:21:14,303 --> 01:21:16,437 M m-mm. 1097 01:21:53,409 --> 01:21:54,375 Here we go. 1098 01:21:54,510 --> 01:21:56,511 Where are we going? 1099 01:21:59,515 --> 01:22:03,985 Well, I'm going to Portland tonight... 1100 01:22:04,119 --> 01:22:07,021 and you... 1101 01:22:07,156 --> 01:22:09,023 you're staying here. 1102 01:22:09,158 --> 01:22:10,158 Come on. 1103 01:22:10,292 --> 01:22:11,492 Come on what? 1104 01:22:11,627 --> 01:22:15,663 What's the lightest leader you've got? 1105 01:22:15,798 --> 01:22:17,465 Three pound. 1106 01:22:17,599 --> 01:22:20,201 All right, hand me the rod. 1107 01:22:20,335 --> 01:22:24,038 Tie it up and bait it. 1108 01:22:24,173 --> 01:22:25,740 Come on. 1109 01:22:25,874 --> 01:22:27,442 Will it... 1110 01:22:27,576 --> 01:22:29,844 will it mess up your plan if I ask... 1111 01:22:29,978 --> 01:22:32,713 what exactly you're doing? 1112 01:22:34,383 --> 01:22:35,616 I'm fishing. 1113 01:22:35,751 --> 01:22:36,717 You do realize... 1114 01:22:36,852 --> 01:22:38,286 there's nothing but Chinook... 1115 01:22:38,420 --> 01:22:41,389 in the water right now, don't you? 1116 01:22:41,523 --> 01:22:42,423 I know that. 1117 01:22:42,558 --> 01:22:44,692 Those can weigh fifty pounds. 1118 01:22:44,827 --> 01:22:48,229 I know. 1119 01:22:48,363 --> 01:22:49,797 So... 1120 01:22:49,932 --> 01:22:51,499 even if it were possible... 1121 01:22:51,633 --> 01:22:54,735 to hook a Chinook... 1122 01:22:54,870 --> 01:22:57,638 on that leader without breaking it 1123 01:22:57,773 --> 01:23:01,742 you couldn't land him even if you played him all night. 1124 01:23:05,414 --> 01:23:06,547 I know that. 1125 01:23:06,682 --> 01:23:11,519 But you have to leave before dark. 1126 01:23:11,653 --> 01:23:13,588 I do. 1127 01:23:13,722 --> 01:23:16,457 But you don't, Gus. 1128 01:23:16,592 --> 01:23:18,626 Got to follow through with the plan. 1129 01:23:37,846 --> 01:23:40,181 There. Come here, Gus. 1130 01:23:40,315 --> 01:23:42,650 Come here. 1131 01:23:42,784 --> 01:23:46,220 Take the rod. 1132 01:23:46,355 --> 01:23:48,723 Keep your tip up. 1133 01:23:48,857 --> 01:23:50,191 Don't fight it. 1134 01:23:54,930 --> 01:23:56,998 Play the Chinook. 1135 01:23:57,132 --> 01:23:58,699 What? 1136 01:26:35,624 --> 01:26:39,026 You getting a little tuckered out there? 1137 01:26:41,029 --> 01:26:43,397 Me too. 1138 01:27:32,881 --> 01:27:34,515 Aha. 1139 01:28:48,824 --> 01:28:50,124 You heading home? 1140 01:28:53,128 --> 01:28:55,663 I thought you might be a girl. 1141 01:29:22,023 --> 01:29:23,924 As we walked upriver... 1142 01:29:24,059 --> 01:29:26,360 I felt like we were on a primordial journey... 1143 01:29:26,494 --> 01:29:29,930 to some forgotten, ancient home. 1144 01:29:30,065 --> 01:29:33,367 The fisherman in me was being unmade. 1145 01:29:33,501 --> 01:29:35,069 With so light a line... 1146 01:29:35,203 --> 01:29:36,670 there could be no question... 1147 01:29:36,805 --> 01:29:39,773 of ever bringing this great fish to bay. 1148 01:29:39,908 --> 01:29:42,042 So there would be no betrayal. 1149 01:29:42,177 --> 01:29:45,279 No struggle. No sacrifice. 1150 01:29:45,413 --> 01:29:47,314 No death. 1151 01:29:47,449 --> 01:29:48,916 There was only a Chinook... 1152 01:29:49,050 --> 01:29:50,517 leading an undone fisherman... 1153 01:29:50,652 --> 01:29:52,786 deeper into the night. 1154 01:32:05,587 --> 01:32:08,188 As I watched the sun wake the valley... 1155 01:32:08,323 --> 01:32:12,526 I felt as though an oldest, greatest, longest-lost friend... 1156 01:32:12,660 --> 01:32:16,663 had come to walk the road, unseen, beside me. 1157 01:32:16,798 --> 01:32:18,699 And just as quickly that feeling left... 1158 01:32:18,833 --> 01:32:21,468 and blended with the sunlight. 1159 01:32:23,538 --> 01:32:26,373 I knew from this point on there was no escape... 1160 01:32:26,508 --> 01:32:29,276 and nowhere to go. 1161 01:32:29,411 --> 01:32:31,779 I was already there. 1162 01:33:44,986 --> 01:33:46,753 ♫ When the bough broke ♫ 1163 01:33:46,888 --> 01:33:49,990 ♫ We were crossing America ♫ 1164 01:33:54,129 --> 01:33:55,996 ♫ You with your stories ♫ 1165 01:33:56,131 --> 01:33:59,066 ♫ And me hanging on ♫ 1166 01:34:03,104 --> 01:34:04,705 ♫ Hands on the wheel ♫ 1167 01:34:04,839 --> 01:34:07,674 ♫ Your hair out the window ♫ 1168 01:34:11,579 --> 01:34:13,714 ♫ lts counterfeit color ♫ 1169 01:34:13,848 --> 01:34:17,184 ♫ Danced in the September air ♫ 1170 01:34:20,722 --> 01:34:22,222 ♫ When the bough broke ♫ 1171 01:34:22,357 --> 01:34:26,727 ♫ We were flirting with Canada ♫ 1172 01:34:29,397 --> 01:34:31,832 ♫ You said prove that you Iove me ♫ 1173 01:34:31,966 --> 01:34:34,301 ♫ And live with me there ♫ 1174 01:34:34,435 --> 01:34:36,737 Today's dreefee. 1175 01:34:39,340 --> 01:34:41,074 ♫ And leave all the frivolous ♫ 1176 01:34:41,209 --> 01:34:44,178 ♫ Back in America ♫ 1177 01:34:48,283 --> 01:34:49,650 ♫ You found true love ♫ 1178 01:34:49,784 --> 01:34:54,588 ♫ In a picture that you saw somewhere ♫ 1179 01:34:57,258 --> 01:34:58,859 ♫ He took her hand ♫ 1180 01:34:58,993 --> 01:35:02,829 ♫ They did cartwheels right into the air ♫ 1181 01:35:05,266 --> 01:35:08,635 ♫♫ And then they fell ♫♫ 1182 01:35:43,972 --> 01:35:45,806 Eddy! 1183 01:36:05,793 --> 01:36:07,561 Ma? 1184 01:36:14,702 --> 01:36:16,703 What are you doing here? 1185 01:36:19,340 --> 01:36:21,174 I'm fishing with Eddy. 1186 01:36:39,093 --> 01:36:40,360 Cripes O'Reilly. 1187 01:36:40,495 --> 01:36:43,897 It's Glum Gus. 1188 01:36:47,802 --> 01:36:49,469 His name is... 1189 01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:53,840 Gus. 1190 01:37:05,586 --> 01:37:07,421 Hen? 1191 01:37:27,642 --> 01:37:30,744 People often don't know what they're talking about. 1192 01:37:30,878 --> 01:37:32,979 But when they talk about love... 1193 01:37:33,114 --> 01:37:36,717 they really don't know what they're talking about. 1194 01:37:36,851 --> 01:37:38,919 The one sure thing you can say about love... 1195 01:37:39,053 --> 01:37:41,822 is that there isn't much you can say about it. 1196 01:37:41,956 --> 01:37:43,490 Not that you shouldn't try. 1197 01:37:43,624 --> 01:37:45,125 You can make analogies. 1198 01:37:45,259 --> 01:37:47,060 Love is like a lot of things. 1199 01:37:47,195 --> 01:37:49,863 One thing it's like is a trout stream. 1200 01:37:49,997 --> 01:37:52,733 Try to capture a trout stream with a dam... 1201 01:37:52,867 --> 01:37:54,401 and you get a lake. 1202 01:37:54,535 --> 01:37:56,203 Try to catch it in a bucket... 1203 01:37:56,337 --> 01:37:58,238 and you get a bucket of water. 1204 01:37:58,373 --> 01:38:00,107 Put some under a microscope... 1205 01:38:00,241 --> 01:38:01,575 and you get a close-up look... 1206 01:38:01,709 --> 01:38:04,511 at some writhing micro-cooties. 1207 01:38:04,645 --> 01:38:08,382 But a trout stream... 1208 01:38:08,516 --> 01:38:10,984 is only a trout stream... 1209 01:38:11,119 --> 01:38:14,788 when it's flowing between its own two banks... 1210 01:38:14,922 --> 01:38:18,158 at its own pace... 1211 01:38:18,292 --> 01:38:20,794 in its own sweet way. 1212 01:38:39,781 --> 01:38:41,648 Run run river 1213 01:38:41,783 --> 01:38:45,919 ♫ Carry me to my home in the ocean ♫ 1214 01:38:46,053 --> 01:38:49,156 ♫ Carry me away ♫ 1215 01:38:51,526 --> 01:38:53,560 ♫ I know I have a home ♫ 1216 01:38:53,694 --> 01:38:57,564 ♫ Somewhere far and removed like the stars ♫ 1217 01:38:57,698 --> 01:39:01,802 ♫ That make you feel like you got friends ♫ 1218 01:39:01,936 --> 01:39:05,338 ♫ Stars'II make you feel ♫ 1219 01:39:05,473 --> 01:39:09,176 ♫ Like you got friends ♫ 1220 01:39:37,939 --> 01:39:40,140 ♫ Follow the empty valley ♫ 1221 01:39:40,274 --> 01:39:44,444 ♫ Past the hills to the marshes of the estuary ♫ 1222 01:39:44,579 --> 01:39:49,950 ♫ Come in peaceful river ♫ 1223 01:39:50,084 --> 01:39:52,219 ♫ In the Iight of the moon ♫ 1224 01:39:52,353 --> 01:39:54,521 ♫ With the river I do run ♫ 1225 01:39:54,655 --> 01:39:59,459 ♫ In the hope that one day I will dive ♫ 1226 01:39:59,594 --> 01:40:03,396 ♫ Beneath the ocean ♫ 1227 01:40:05,700 --> 01:40:10,470 ♫♫ And that this river will forever run ♫♫ 1228 01:40:54,482 --> 01:40:57,784 ♫ Bet you're going fishing all of the time ♫ 1229 01:40:57,919 --> 01:41:01,621 ♫ Baby going fishing, too ♫ 1230 01:41:01,756 --> 01:41:05,292 ♫ I bet your Iife for your sweet wife ♫ 1231 01:41:05,426 --> 01:41:09,062 ♫ Gonna catch more fish than you ♫ 1232 01:41:09,196 --> 01:41:13,133 ♫ Oh, many fish bite if you got good bait ♫ 1233 01:41:13,267 --> 01:41:17,003 ♫ Here's a Iittle tip I would like to relate ♫ 1234 01:41:17,138 --> 01:41:20,574 ♫ Oh, many fish bite if you've got good bait ♫ 1235 01:41:20,708 --> 01:41:25,078 ♫ Oh, I'm going fishing ♫ ♫ Yes, I'm going fishing ♫ 1236 01:41:25,212 --> 01:41:28,448 ♫ And my baby's going fishing, too ♫ 1237 01:42:01,582 --> 01:42:05,385 ♫ Bet you're going fishing all of the time ♫ 1238 01:42:05,519 --> 01:42:09,022 ♫ Baby going fishing, too ♫ 1239 01:42:09,156 --> 01:42:12,559 ♫ I bet your Iife for your sweet wife ♫ 1240 01:42:12,693 --> 01:42:16,696 ♫ Gonna catch more fish than you ♫ 1241 01:42:16,831 --> 01:42:20,634 ♫ Oh, many fish bite if you got good bait ♫ 1242 01:42:20,768 --> 01:42:24,471 ♫ Here's a Iittle tip I would like to relate ♫ 1243 01:42:24,605 --> 01:42:28,141 ♫ Oh many fish bite if you've got good bait ♫ 1244 01:42:28,275 --> 01:42:32,445 ♫ Oh, I'm going fishing ♫ ♫ Yes, I'm going fishing ♫ 1245 01:42:32,580 --> 01:42:36,950 ♫ And my baby's going fishing, too ♫