"The lake has a couple of deep holes where the fish hang out sometimes. Other times they are near surface, jumping for flies. It depends on the weather, the season, and the time of day."
"And a good Kahuna could just call them and they'd come."
"There you go again with the Kahuna stuff. What are you talking about?" Russ was truly baffled.
As they trolled slowly around the lake she gave him a very brief glimpse into the history and mystique of the ancient Polynesian Kahunas, or Keepers of the Secret. She had studied and written a paper on them for an English class in school, but the subject was so vast and covered so many sub-topics it couldn't easily be explained in one, or even many, conversations.
"They believed that everything in the Universe was connected by what they called 'Aka threads'. This was very much like what our current scientists have named the 'new' string theory of the Universe, even though it was being used by the Polynesians over two thousand years ago."
"They also believed that all thoughts have energy - something our scientists have already measured and proven - and that thoughts can influence and affect matter. Using these two beliefs, they were able to perform healing on others, even though they were at great distances from them. The thoughts and energy would travel on the Aka threads, bringing healing to the other person."
"They lived very closely with nature, believed in nature spirits who would do their bidding when asked, and could communicate with animals by telepathy. They were known to be able to call sea turtles. This being true, you should be able to call a trout and have him come to you here. Right?"
"If you say so. What else did they do?" Russ was more than a little skeptical, but curious.
"They would talk to the nature spirits and have them control the weather. So we should be able to bring a little white cloud over the sun while we are fishing. The thing I read that I liked the best about them was their belief system - no hurt, no sin. In other words, if you didn't intentionally hurt someone, then you were not committing a sin. Of course, the other side of that was that intentional hurt was a sin. If they did feel they had committed a sin against another, they would perform some sort of penance - usually quite rigorous."
Suddenly her eyes got big, she let out a yelp and said, "Help! Something just grabbed my bait. What do I do?"