"Trial and error, I guess...wh-woah!" Something tugged on the end of Maurice's line. He quickly stood up and started reeling. "It's heavy!"

His line didn't jerk around in the water the way it would have if he'd snagged a fighting fish. Maurice grunted and walked his line back from the bank and reeled gradually. He only had so much fishing line and he didn't want to break it.

"God, it better not be a skull this time."