After a few drifts you stick the fish and immediately regret your decision. Your twig of a rod is connected to a true silver bullet and all you can do is hang on. It’s over quickly and in spectacular fashion. A number of cart wheeling leaps and belly flops prove too much for your 4x tippet and your left expressionless with a racing heart. The frustration and disappointment hits you first, but within a few seconds it’s gone. You know what this means. Turning upstream towards your buddy you notice his shit eating grin.
“They’re here man…They’re here!”
And the egg beaters know just why.