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Jun 2024
38m 17s

PLAIN FISHING by FRANK STOCKTON

JON HAGADORN
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Our narrator tells a great fishing story whicfh begins at the home of an old local fisherman with two beautiful daughters and continues with a battle of wits between he and a huge trout followed by some good country advice.

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