"Ah shucks Bob, thanks for helping me, but the fish was more important."

The fish??? Bob had forgotten about the fish. In his haste to insert his soft squid into Os' mouth, he'd knocked the rod out of Os' hand!

They scanned the bank in search of the rod ... only to see a rooster tail from the big buck's broomtail going through the riffle at the bottom of the hole. To their horror, the rod merrily skipped along the surface behind ...