[ wp ] The first line of your story must include 'and I caught him with , of all things , a fishing pole ' .

It took me almost an hour of pushing through bush and hedgerows and I caught him with, of all things, a fishing pole. Sgt. Harrison had detailed myself and two other guys from second squad to go out on a early morning patrol before the push into St. Gilles. Petty retribution for winning in the card game last night I guess, but whatever. We had found a pair hobnail boot tracks in the soft normal earth after twenty minutes of walking, heading for a nearby pond. Lou cracked that perhaps the kraut was going to take a dump, but I was now corporal and supposed to be above that. 
 
 So there he was, fishing pole in hand, boots off and oblivious to the world. The guy was probably in his mid to late thirties, too old to really be out here but I guess Adolf was scraping the bottom of the barrel at this stage. It was a nice late June morning and who can fault the guy for wanting to get some early morning fishing in. I certanly ca n't, I love to fish. Lou raised his rifle to his arm, but i pushed it down quickly and put my finger to my lips. `` Alive'' I rasp softly and start moving carefully but quickly behind the kraut. 
 
 There was a sudden comotion that made my heart leap for a moment. That bastard had landed himself something and he was fighting it in. If he was oblivious to us before, he was thinking of only one thing now as he tried to wrestle what appeared to be a large perch out of the pond. He obviously knew what he was doing, and I can respect that. One angler to another. He finally got the prize out and raised it to the sky in triumph. He turned to gather his boots when he spotted us. He gasped and twiched in surprise, but Lou took that as a threat and shot him, twice, in the chest. 
 
 `` I said alive goddammit!'' 
 
 Lou gave me a wry smile as he ran up to the kraut and said `` Sorry, thought he was going for a gun. B'cides, we got us breakfast now''. He lifted the perch up by the gills. 
 
 Lou was such a shitheal.
