The old man who had witnessed everything from the sidelines looked utterly incredulous. Even the wrinkles on his face seemed to smooth out.
It was beginner's luck!
It had to be beginner's luck!!!
He had lived here for so long, yet he had never known there were fish that big in the river.
Why could a Pokémon that looked as though it had never fished before catch one so easily?
Annihilape grabbed the fishing net, knocked out the fish Little Absol had landed, and put it in the bucket.
When Annihilape tossed the big fish into the bucket, the water splashed onto the old man's stunned face.
Having caught a big fish so easily, Little Absol immediately lost interest. Little Absol returned the rod to Annihilape and went off to chase a Butterfree fluttering above the flowers nearby.
Little Absol's sudden charge startled the Butterfree, which had just settled on a flower, into taking flight.
The old man looked at his empty bucket, then at Roy's enormous bucket, which was already almost full. He still refused to admit that he was the problem.
He decided that Roy and his Pokémon must have stolen his luck by coming here, which was why he could not catch anything.
Just as the old man was about to move to another fishing spot, a thought flashed through his mind.
He realized something was wrong. He was fishing so close to those two Pokémon that the fish could not possibly all bite their bait while ignoring his.
Then it had to be a problem with the equipment!!!
Sensing something amiss, the old man began observing them. He noticed that Annihilape's rod was one of the most common models on the market, though serious anglers generally would not use it.
Then the answer had to be