A Short Story
I rode my bike down the road too the bridge above the creek. It had rained yesterday so the water was above average hight and flowing hard. I pulled over into the woods on my bike and dropped it off into the bushes. I came out of the woods and back onto the bridge to look down at he flowing water. I watched as the leaves got sucked under by the current and then resurfaced a couple seconds later on a calmer stretch of the creek. After watching the water for a while I walked along the bridge to the other side where there was a tiny pond off to the left side of the road. I walked up to the bank of the shallow pond. The water was sort of murky. I made a cast and my lure skipped across the surface of the water all the way to a log sticking up out of the water. The lure skipped and bounced off the log with a thud and then sank slowly into the water. It hadn't even reached the bottom when I felt a giant tap and set the hook. The line shot off to the side and then a big bas...