04-11-2018, 12:02 AM
Under Section 32
of the Salmon Act (UK), 1986.
You're nicked, he says.
Just like that. I've barely shook
the water from my boots,
rod's still out, whipping
and a waggling in the breeze.
Come along quietly, he says,
I'm trying to put my tackle away,
contain my flies, show the licences;
while all the while his hand
is starting to feel like a great big hook.
No, no, no, sonny boy, he says.
I'm attempting to explain myself,
tell him I'm not handling a salmon
in suspicious circumstances,
I landed it myself, fair and square.
Now, you look here my lad, he says,
I may be just a city copper,
know nothing of the the wild ways
of those anadromous fish and such,
but this river you've been fishing
is the bloody Serpentine.
It hasn't seen the sea since
1850 and back then
the Westbourne and the Thames
weren't as full of ordure as you.
of the Salmon Act (UK), 1986.
You're nicked, he says.
Just like that. I've barely shook
the water from my boots,
rod's still out, whipping
and a waggling in the breeze.
Come along quietly, he says,
I'm trying to put my tackle away,
contain my flies, show the licences;
while all the while his hand
is starting to feel like a great big hook.
No, no, no, sonny boy, he says.
I'm attempting to explain myself,
tell him I'm not handling a salmon
in suspicious circumstances,
I landed it myself, fair and square.
Now, you look here my lad, he says,
I may be just a city copper,
know nothing of the the wild ways
of those anadromous fish and such,
but this river you've been fishing
is the bloody Serpentine.
It hasn't seen the sea since
1850 and back then
the Westbourne and the Thames
weren't as full of ordure as you.