Monday: | Andy Dear | |
Tuesday: | Paul Arden | |
Wednesday: | Chris Avery | |
Thursday: | Martyn White | |
Friday: | Mika Lappalainen | |
Saturday: | Viking Lars | |
Sunday: | Tracy&James | |
Big 'uns
Monday, 18 March 2024
Definition of Big 'un from Wikipedia;
Noun; big 'un (plural big 'un), (informal) A large thing. Example; Blimey, that's a big 'un!
Synonyms; A whopper
Thai Trip
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Ashly and I haven’t been to Thailand for quite some years now. In the past we used to go regularly, often car topping up the boat up and launching off the beach. She is in-between jobs, leaving Belum Rainforest Resort and moving to Marriott’s in Perhentian, where she plans to do her PHD in Business Management. So that sounds like a good excuse for a trip. Curiously vaping is illegal in Thailand, but recreational pot is legal! We are taking the bikes up, and plan to go swimming, running and biking. Where we will go exactly, I have no idea. We will see where the Snakehead Truck takes us. I fully intend to avoid other tourists!!!
…Of Gods and Devils and strange signs.
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
After a hard day of toil and trouble, I’d typically turn in to the long dirt track to take me to the serenity of those blissful waters, above the Packhorse bridge.
Get out of the car, open the gates; get back in the car; shuffle forward a few yards; get out of the car; close the gates; get back in; drive blunderingly Tortoise style the half mile of heavily pitted mud track under the trees, carefully dodging the biggest dips and disastrous, chassis scraping hollows. This steeplechase of obstacles, impediments and actions, seemed to be placed in front of me as a divine test of patience, to frustrate me from speedily reaching Nirvana in the waders, and engineered I guess, to emphasise the sweetness of that eventual moment. A narrative counterpoint.
Like A Virgin
Thursday, 14 March 2024
The weather has finally starte to resemble some sort of normality here, well just about, so it was time to get out on the river for a proper bit of maruta fishing. It also meant we gcould get John out in search of his first fish on the fly.
One more week
Friday, 15 March 2024
It is month from last zoom lesson with Paul. Time truly flies. I haven't been casting for one week now. I'm not really happy about that. There were multiple reasons why I had break for one week.
We have been still really busy at farm and I had some dinners to cook etc. Days are getting much longer, so I would have daylight still. It has been more like that I am really tired. Winter has been enormously tough, which is good but now I think my feets and some other muscles want to give up.
LCB Sink Tip Special
Saturday, 16 March 2024
Sink tip lines are hardly new on the market. I think I first became aware of them 25 years ago - or something. I used my first ones for winter grayling fishing. Today they are obviously hugely popular in many different forms. Mainly as Skagit systems or shooting heads. Skagit systems always with interchangeable tips, sometimes on shooting heads too.
Ready to go
Sunday, 17 March 2024
I've been busy finishing the tackle preparations for our upcoming saltwater trip this weekend. Firstly I spooled up two new Celestial fly lines that I've promised Steve (the owner) that we'd try out in a tropics environment. I was seriously let down by the Rio saltwater lines we had last time in that the coating de-bonded from the core along the entire length of the front tapers of 3 different fly lines. I think the root cause of this lies with a fundamental flaw in trying to get plastisol to adhere to a smooth nylon monofilament. I say this having spoken to a number of other flats anglers who have seen exactly the same issue with Rio saltwater lines. Now I know Rio have great customer service and would probably replace these (hugely) expensive lines if I contacted them, however I simply don't want another line made with this construction method. Celestial lines are built on braided cores, as per conventional fly lines, and the stiffness is controlled by the properties of the plastisol coating.