I know what you mean. About fifty years ago a friend and I hiked for three days to get up to Colby Lake in SEKI. We had fabulous fly-fishing all afternoon for golden trout. And we were counting on those trout for dinner.

But as I watched my friend fish, I realized that I didn't need to keep any fish--he was catching plenty of them. But when I met him back at camp for dinner, I learned that he had come to the same conclusion seeing my fishing success.

What followed was a frantic 45 minutes of fishing where we each struggled to catch a couple of trout for dinner.

We did. But I still remember the look of shock on our faces as we each realized that we had expected the other guy to keep some fish...and we had nothing to eat but instant rice.