1 P.M.
It is the only wrinkle , Tom . The captain fished a-top , and caught but three all day . They were n't going to catch a cold in their heads to please him or any man . Clouds burn up at 1 P.M. I put on a minnow , and kill three more ; I should have had lots , but for the image of the dirty hickory stick , which would ` walk the waters like a thing of life , ' just ahead of my minnow . Mem . -- Never fish with the sun in your back ; it 's bad enough with a fly , but with a minnow it 's strichnine and prussic acid . My eleven weighed together four and a-half pounds -- three to the pound ; not good , considering I had spased many a two-pound fish , I _ know _ .