{"id":82961,"date":"2013-06-19T09:47:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T07:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lemouching.com\/old\/2013\/06\/crossing-the-river\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T08:47:17","slug":"crossing-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemouching.com\/en\/2013\/06\/crossing-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"CROSSING THE RIVER."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poor guy was doing as well as he could, all the while squealing like a pig in a slaughter house: &#8220;Oh..Oh shit! Damn it, I&#8217;ll never make it to the other side! Oh&#8230;shit, damn!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So much so, that my pure christian soul was troubled and maybe because of Saint Whomever or Saint Whatever, I proposed to help to the poor devil.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lemouchingflyfishing-crue.jpg?resize=380%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could I give you a hand sir? I have non-slip shoes so I can easily help you across!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And its true that my new JMC shoes that I recently bartered with my friend Manu Vialle were awesome and efficient. The adherence was such, that I had the impression my soles were a many-tentacled octopus (Manu, please don&#8217;t forget the promised percentage! Thank you.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t refuse a helping hand!&#8221; replied the poor cast away. I grabbed his hand (my God! What a horrible sensation it is, to take a stranger&#8217;s hand and find it greasy with sun cream!)<\/p>\n<p>So there we were, the two of us slowly crossing the furious river.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tell me&#8221; said the fatty &#8220;with fly-fishing, are they biting?&#8221;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31334\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Le-Mouching-Fly-fishing-pieuvre.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not bad, not bad&#8230; I&#8217;ve had worse days!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me. I&#8217;m a hunter. 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