Mar
6
Whose Trout?
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Jamie in Brooklyn, winner of February’s $100 Poegle Challenge, has sent another fine poegle. Enjoy.
My Trout
There is a regional slang in which
someone may call someone
with whom he is acquainted
“my trout” (or “me trout”).
“Me oul’ trout”
and “sound as a trout”
are used here (Ireland)
to describe a dependable person.
Perhaps it’s related
to the Arcadian (transplanted
to Louisiana cajun) “ma tout.”
Clifton Chenier had a Zydeco song
called “Ma Tout Tout.”
“It is my own fault,” said Ruiz.
“I cast my trout fly without truth,
and it came back and
struck me because
there was no truth in my hand.”
Jamie in Brooklyn (search phrase “my trout”)