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<\/p>\nSo, always being the good samaritan, I offered him one of my flies that had proven itself the miracle of the season: my famous scarab. To my great surprise he didn’t even take the trouble to look at me, nor to respond.\u00a0 I thought that perhaps he was excessively timid. I was ready to do an about face when he turned toward me and, surprised by my presence, he uttered a phrase that sounded like: “Ourmf\u2026ourf\u2026 Greu\u2026 Grrr.”<\/p>\n
I quickly realized that the guy in question was deaf and dumb and that those sounds that came from his throat, resembling water running down a drain, were all that the poor soul could offer as conversation.<\/p>\n
I opened my metal box of flies that contained the invincible scarab and offered him one.<\/p>\n
After a few croakings he accepted my offer with a big smile. I’m here to tell you that I have never seen anything as luminous and sincere as his sunny smile (except, of course, for that of my wife). It was the kind of smile that that I saw as a kid when my christian friends had first communion cards with beaming cherubs, gold glitter and the good lord saying: “Hello!” with a gesture to invite you to refrain from messing around with young girls until anointed by a priest at the alter.![\"Le](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Le-Mouching-Fly-fishing-language-300x118.jpg?resize=300%2C118&ssl=1\")
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Naturally, we fished together like two old friends, I showed him the best spots in my river and he clucked and croaked like a family of happy frogs savoring a delicious dessert of flies.<\/p>\n
We spent an afternoon of pure delight, one of those rare moments of silence and perfect harmony. The next day I returned, in the hopes of seeing my deaf and dumb friend and enjoy again, rich hours of peace. I found, instead, two confusingly ugly guys who, each time they missed a fish, would squeal like pigs having their throats slit. I finally reached the riverbank where their wives encouraged them while listening to “Europe 1” as loud as possible and smacking their howling kids![\"Le](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Le-mouching-fly-fishing-gros-con.jpg?resize=650%2C594&ssl=1\")
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Even when I reached the other side of the river, way below past the bend, I could still hear the flow of nonsense, each more one vulgar than the other\u2026 vanished, the sweet silence of yesterday\u2026 gone, the almost zen harmony; with rage in my heart I packed up my gear and returned home to my wife for consolation (she does it so well!) and to a bottle of Cotes du Rhone.<\/p>\n
Dear readers, if, by the greatest coincidence, you know a deaf and dumb fly fisherman, I beg you to leave me his address at the office of le Mouching who will in turn pass it on to me. My mental health depends on it…![\"Le](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Le-mouching-fly-fishing-Hopital.jpg?resize=750%2C388&ssl=1\")
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