Of course, nobody thinks about it again. Or the mussel when it's lying around filtering. All they see from below are the fins. One Lake Garda trout asks the other: "Hey, do you know what that is? A fin without a fish on it? A back float?" - "Nah, none of us are that daft, a USO maybe." - "What?" - "An Unidentified Swimming Object." - "Wow, you're always with your out-of-water fantasies."
Defi Wind. Hundreds of fins cut through the salt water, jibe at the buoy and race back, again and again. Down below, the common mackerel wonders: "Do these things actually know where they want to go? Left, right, back again." "I don't trust it," says the octopus, "I'll hide away, nothing good has ever come from up there!" The flying fish could tell us what's going on up there. Every now and then he does a lap above the water, but they don't talk to him. "He's so conceited because of his stupid flying."
If at some point orcas start hunting slalom fins instead of the rudders of sailing yachts - no big deal, orcas aren't fish at all. The gurnard wastes no thought at all on this fin story, he's always angry anyway, the way he looks. The sneaky sea urchin doesn't really care - the main thing is that someone kicks his spines into his foot. That's enough for him.
Keep your distance when fins are flitting around in shallow waters! Plaice, flounders and brill have already adapted perfectly. Shallow is safe. The shark is food-orientated. Even the very young learn from their shark mum: "If you see a fin like that, always swim after it. They often stop suddenly and then food splashes into the water!"
For the unfortunate herring, things sometimes go the other way round, otherwise where would these delicious matjes double fillets, cut lengthways, come from?
More from Tommy Brandner:
- Under-80s or over-80s? Diets for windsurfers
- A visit to the tuning workshop for windsurfers
- Motorhome for beginners
- Attention drone!
- Through the shorebreak
- The avalanche of traffic jams is rolling again
- Happy B-Day, King!
- Used is still too expensive
- That was 2023
- To foil or not to foil
- Faster, faster, faster... or: Who is this Lüderitz anyway?
- Windy stories
- The handsome Hansi
- AI hysteria
- News from the Spocht
- Get fit without training
- Madhouse on the beach
