An ambition achieved

It is always good to set an ambition, invest some time and achieve that goal. Yesterday was one of those pivotal days where one of my ambitions came to fruition. One day a week from March until June I along with some other equally challenged stalwarts pitch our skills against the Atlantic Salmon. Whatever the weather we spend a day each week up to our nickynacks wading in the river Avon in pursuit of that illusive fish. To land a Salmon at over twenty pounds in weight drives us on, and this is a very rare event in these challenged ecological times. At one with the wild life, this day is the equivalent of my weekly brain shower, when all problems are reduced to mere trivialities compared with the task at hand. Two seasons have passed without a sniff of my Hemingway moment, last week I did experience 35 minutes of athleticism against a monster but lost it to the flood and flotsam which collected around the nose of the fish. And then yesterday, joy on joy another take, the skies opened up raindrops like stair rods penetrated my collar, the fish took me up and down the river and for forty five minutes I hung on matching this magnificent beast move for move. Finally he succumbed and was landed with due ceremony, at last a result, weighing in at 21lbs the fish was back in the water in less than a minute and retreated quickly into the murky floodwaters. An ambition realised!