Chapter Three | The Secret Lake | Reflections | Volume Two

you finally got yours. I got hooked right under the tip of the rod and you lost it, yeah, but I got my hook back, so I didn't want to fight with the girls on the shore, but that's what they've been doing all day, they just came to look and think not, we. We are depressed but we haven't left the tent today yes, tomorrow will be our day tomorrow yes, tomorrow will be a better day I think it's time to go to sleep, I think it's time to have tea and after going to bed, we wake up before dawn and We found the pool shrouded in light fog and it wasn't long before Martin found some fish to cast mid-morning when nothing was happening.

Martin felt it was time to go back to the swim he had been fishing the night before while I was happily sitting on the dam catching up on my diary well I think a fish is now leaving this corner of the

lake

and it's been an hour no longer There's not a single bubble, not a single wave, so I'm going to roll up and it must be almost eleven o'clock, so that's what's going to happen. Now I have more back. Stern and then we'll approach again with Martin crawling around hoping to find a fish somewhere. I decided I swapped the pen for the Kelly, made a cup of tea and then even Martin felt it was probably a good idea to back off completely and let the pool settle refreshed from our tea and head back to the

lake

with my hopes compared to what It would happen when the days are popular.

In me, I'm sure, well, no, I tell him to lie down all the way. I had that opportunity. Just lying next to Bob Lemon has been so complicated that they can't want to go back to feeding with their heads down, hoping this is just a trigger and they're just me. All Chris, his fish, it wasn't long into my swim before the water was gently rocking around my float and I knew I was about to make contact, yeah, how does it increase the damn no, okay, there's the float, is he writing them? I love it. that look oh no, it's okay, still there, hold Rodney, look there, I don't think it is, no, I don't need it, I may not have taken any lines of that kind of influence that goes unbroken Creek right to take It's not, it's not, it's definitely, it's definitely chewing gum, do we attribute this to someone else?

Yes, Yates and the bowler, yes, a disaster, that son Joey, throw this rod now yes, just break it over your knee and put it in, oh, now one of mine, Chris always next time, I think. It's definitely time for lunch or tea or something a little strong, but after that I might even hug one more cast, please, no matter what the situation is, if it goes wrong, stay positive. Chris can still get something positive out of losing the fish because he would say yes, but we lost that fish and that fish will come down and tell grandma a little bait on the top end and we'll end up catching the bigger fish and the cup won't It's half full, it's up to the brim and that's it. why i love fishing with the lord after a loss like that there's only one thing to do put my cap over my eyes and let the sound of the flow take me to my dreams one under the lip treatment go bite me yeah grace yeah me Chris come on oh really robbing the place come on cool oh there you are would you like me to stab you?

No, unfortunately it is true that losses are only part of the fabric of all fishing and it is only through losses that you can truly appreciate those special catches. Which makes me wonder where Martin is now, but he's out there somewhere still trying to reach a car even though it's a cold winter night, but sometimes, sometimes, it's worth it.