It is not often that you get a chance to go fishing. And when you're invited to go catch mackerel in the open sea, make sure you don't pass on the opportunity.
I remember it as though it was yesterday. I was eight years old, and we were spending our summer holiday in Scotland.
One day it was announced that the whole family would be going on a fishing trip. We all sighed. Scotland can be chilly, even in the summer, though the days are often bright and sunny. We kids all wished that we wouldn't have to go. I pictured us sitting on a soggy river bank, freezing, clutching a fishing rod and a box of maggots, with nothing to show for it at the end of the day.
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