I cast Molly off into the wind and she started off somewhat half hearted and I was getting frustrated with her in the first few minutes. Then she stopped to empty herself and after that she found the gear box and started to motor nicely. I concentrated on keeping her close and flowing from side to side. She loves to get in under the brambles. We then crossed a drain in to mature area of pine trees with an ivy bottom and in the nice open ground she was really flying and doing a decent pattern. In amoung the tree though she sometimes lost sight of me and stopped a few times to look for me. I had to concentrate hard and move swiftly to try and stay in her peripheral vision as much as possible.
As we emerged from the pine plantation an into some more open ground a pigeon flew high over me and I shot it. Molly was in the middle of some bramble so didn't mark the fall. She was steady to the shot though. The pigeon fell into light cover on the far side of a small drainage trench about 35 yards away. I set Molly up and sent her for the blind. She took a line to the right of the fall and when she was out far enough I dropped her and waved her left towards the area of the fall. She started to hunt an area short of the fall so I dropped her again and gave her another left signal and she got into the fall area and found the pigeon fairly quickly and retrieved it nicely to hand. She is taking direction very well at the minute. Long may it continue.
We continued hunting in an arc back towards the car and Molly's pace stayed well up for the entire time which was very pleasing. She is very fit at the minute and looking strong. We were out for about 45 minutes in total.
There is a trial on next Sunday that I have entered. I hope to hear today if we managed to get a run. Fingers crossed.
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