The Spring Hunt Tests

I hate Pump Pond! It was a perfect day, warm, clear and shadows from the trees darkened the northeastern end of the pond. Earlier in the land series, Sport made two near perfect land retrieves and I was looking forward to the water series. Sport is a swimmer, he will swim to chase waterfowl, but he spooked in the dark waters.
I do not know if it was because the bottom of the pond drops off sharply or he did not know how to where to enter to get to the darker portion of the pond. This is the second time he has not entered and retrieved in a Hunt Test, in a Hunt Test at Pump Pond, in a Hunt Test at Pump Pond going into deep water on the Northeast end of Pump Pond. (Sense frustration? Thank the judges and go home.) Eventually he retrieved the drake, after the pick up dog also failed to the duck, so I do not feel as bad.