It rained today and we had another training session scheduled at the preserve with fliers. The rain had started about 2 AM and continued during the morning. We arrived at the pond in the rain, but what does a little rain matter with water retrieves?

The turnout was low, only 6 people showed up, which permitted several runs. When it was our turn to the line everything seemed to go wrong, the first bird was wiley enough to fly off into the trees, yes, the gunners missed, so we turned and faced the winger, the bird never left the winger, that left only one tried and true method, somebody threw the bird. Sport started straight out for the bird, but decided to take an arced path around via the edge of the pond and grabbed the bird. (Note to self: work more in the water.) Finally the bird in hand I put Sport back in the truck to help for a while.

Later on the second try of the land retrieve Sport went out and came straight back, bird in mouth happy to hand it to me.

So after 2 runs we packed up as the rain started up again and continued all the way home.