Rewards

Today was all about rewards.  Being selfish I decided to reward myself with an afternoon off to go-a-fishing.  Henry deserved a reward for being Henry so he came too.  The flies rewarded me by appearing in their multitudes for an hour or two.  The fish rewarded me for...

Applying those three principles that you know I keep going on and on about...

Reconnaissance suggested where the fish are so I went there...

and sat down to be stealthy and to observe.  Up there, by that angled dead stalk, in the middle, right at the water's edge... 

there was a rise by way of a reward for sitting low...

Then there was another!  I was being rewarded even more.

So a cast was made and the third reward came in the form of the first fish of the day.  The snap will come in handy in remembering this fish when it has grown a little bit bigger. 

Those "one, two, three, space, four, five, big space, six" spots behind the left gill are distinctive enough to recognise if they are ever seen again.

So it went on for a good two hours or so.  Henry wasn't bored because we kept moving on.  He still wants to retrieve the fish and is still amazed when I let them go, but he, like me, was happy to be out by the river and that was the biggest reward and good enough for the both of us.




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