He was doing pretty good with a piece of yarn on the bank. He had trouble with the wind resistant gurgler I gave him first so I switched it out with a weighted streamer that I thought would be more forgiving. He could feel that loading the rod better but still got out of sync and caught himself with the backcast. The worst of it was the doc destroyed my fly and wouldn't give us a discount on the bill for a replacement. He wasn't in any pain until they gave him the tetanus shot so we clowned around and had more fun than they usually see in the E.R.