Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

It was odd, when we thought about it, that all the healthiest fish had died, The ones we’d had concerns about were still with us. It was also odd that all our special friends amongst the fish had gone… the ones we had named as they taught us to know their characters. All except one… a huge sturgeon named Jay, for an old friend of Nick’s who was a gentle giant of a man.

Jay, at well over three feet long and with a girth to match, the gentle giant of the pond, who Nick was able to stroke and whose curiosity about the strange creatures above the water was as obvious as our own about him.

But Jay was not recovering well last night. Nick and I spoke on the phone and he told me the sturgeon was still struggling badly… so he stayed with the fish so it…