The Leaping Fish

摘要

An atlantic salmon came up from the depths of the river to splash the Sunray Shadow, an ugly 3-inch fly, but the fish would not take the hook. So the fisherman gave up until his guide—a spiky-haired Icelander with impish energy—heard the story and took the angler back to the same spot on the Laxa i Adaldal, a famed salmon river in the north of Iceland. By 9:30 p.m., as a pink sun hovered on Iceland's tundra-and-lava horizon, the fish was a silver bar of fury jumping four times in the air before finally being beached.