And when I was about ten years old, we fished on the Danube. “Na grunt” (On the bottom) we called it, with a ledger (lead weight). Meaning, no float, just a weight. Grund – that’s a purely German word. But back then, we drank water from the Danube. We drank water from the ponds. Meaning, living water. The water was unpolluted. And there were fishermen then; there was a fishing association with professional fishermen who had permits for the open Danube and permits for the ponds. … Today, that’s gone. There are no more fish in the Danube, fewer and fewer. The ponds are neglected. Silt… reeds… and water lilies have done their part. That other weed, which we called ‘drezga’ (pondweed), has silted it all up. So there aren’t many fish. Many species of fish are gone – extinct. Meaning, this is roughly 70 years ago and less. Those fish aren’t here anymore. We used to fish, back then there were no hooks to buy, so we used a… what’s it called – a pin! We bent a pin. Then the pin on a ‘repšnur’ (string), since there was no nylon, and we’d go to Krstatica, to the forest, cut a wild locust tree branch, tie it to the top, and fish like that.