of one, if I can be honest. I do my best though. During lunch, I like to sit on the boat dock, and, you guessed it, fish. I don't eat fish, just for fun, and when I do catch one, I just look at them a minute or two, swell up with pride, and throw them back in.

　　Surely that was a big day for me. When I snatched up my fishing pole, and started reeling(收线) the line in, my heart was filled with expectation. I had a vision come to mind, taking that big fish up to the house in a big bucket of water, and show off in front of my boy.

　　That big fish had gotten himself snagged(勾住) in the weeds on the opposite bank, and I could tell he was a big one, probably my biggest catch ever. I felt him pull, and twist, but no matter how I tried, I couldn't get him reeled in.

　　Not wanting to hurt the big one, I paddled(划桨) to the opposite bank of the river, while reeling my line in, and came up alongside the weeds he was snagged under. I could feel him pulling on my line. He was big and strong. I just hoped he wasn't too big to get into my boat. I was going to show my fisherman son a thing or two today, I just knew it. My heart beat with excitement, maybe I could get the boy to take a picture of me with my catch of the day. If it's big enough, maybe I'll even make the paper.

　　I finally worked the line free of the weeds, and pulled the big boy up from the water to come meet his momma. My blood ran cold at the horror which came up out of that water instead. The biggest, meanest, ugliest snake I'd ever seen in my life come out of that water, with my fishhook in his mouth, opening wide up.

　　I screamed bloody murder, let go of that line, fell back into the seat of the boat and paddled backward as if my life depended on it. I might have paddled all the way to the Gulf of Mexico if I'd had enough river to get away from that scaled man-eater.

　　I don't remember how fast I got out of that boat, but it was real fast. My hands shaking, I called my boy to come down and help me out. I'd finally caught a big one.

21. Why would the author go fishing?

　　A. Because she likes eating fish.

　　B. Because she is a fisherwoman.

　　C. Because her family lives on fish.

　　D. Because fishing is one of her hobbies.

In the author's mind, when she caught the big one, she would probably .