It's for that I like fishing

In the end, after several week of bad weather in my city, I went fishing yesterday. 

Fishing is a hobby I took up when I was five. My father was very fond of fishing but I don't really know when he took up his hobby because my grandfather did not like it at all. 

I am the youngest of three brothers  and I belong to a humble family,  so going fishing was such a good way to keep the children entertained without spending too much money. In fact we did not spend a cent, because my father knew where to collect the bait in the sea and we get to the beach on foot because it was very near to our house, three hundred meters away more or less.

I still remember when I caught my first fish. I was astonished and a shiver went down my spine. My father taught me everything   about fishing, what's more, he taught me to respect the sea and its inhabitants. I learnt from him that we never had to catch small fish. He used to tell me, 'Vicent, they have to grow before being caught'.

I am forty-seven now and I still go fishing every weekend, if the weather is good of course, and I still feel the same shiver I felt when I was five. It is nice. I wonder how proud of me my father would be if he was able to read this letter. 

I will never forget looking the big smile that was drawn on his face when I went to see him after a fishing day. I showed him my captures but his face was the face of a person who has been captured by something darkness, something that told me that he was going to leave me soon.

My father died five years ago and I am not get used to living without him yet. It is for that every time I go fishing, I can see his face reflected in the sea, looking at me and it is for that I know he is very proud of me because he can see that I have followed his pieces of advice, and it's for that a tear starts going down my cheek while remembering this.

Vicent