We started the fishing season a bit late this year. Though for a first showing, the catch wasn't half bad. This time though, all of our bait(worms and tiger beatle larvae) was dug up from the the compost heap. The breeze was warm and the water temperature quite comfortable. After an hour of steady reeling, we caught 6 bluegills, 2 sunfish, and 1 pumpkinseed. The fish were quickly gutted and the offal preserved. The offal represents a valuable soil enrichment resource that had previously been untapped. In anycase, the fish guts were carefully buried underneath a layer of packed soil within the compost pile and then topped by 2 additional layers: one of leaf and another one of packed grass clippings. This would eventually decompose into an extremely rich grade of compost, though it could also be quite smelly. Thus, another cycle has been created where the compost pile generates bait which generates fish which generates even richer compost!
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