Been on a MAJOR Buckethead binge recently, so thought I would re-run this one from 2020. The man really does make some killer music to play in the background while building a rod or tying flies.

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Last week Phil Blackmar and I discussed the mental aspect of sport, I was particularly interested in how Phil learned to deal with the pressure in his professional career as a professional golf player and what we can learn from this and apply to flycasting sport.

It’s not just about flycasting sport of course, and also applies to taking fishing shots, instructor exams and even dangerous road conditions – as it turns out.

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Life for some of us is like a random ride, taking opportunist twists in the route, distracted down more interesting looking side streets and attractive avenues, as they offer variety from the growing drudgery; new vistas to be discovered across pastures new!

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I first saw a deer hair bass bug in the fishing section of a Canadian Tire during a family holiday in my early teens. I hadn't been tying for that long at the time and the handful of divers and poppers I threw in the basket were the only fly fishing things I bought along with a clutch of soft plastics, moss bosses, top props and other conventional lures that just weren't available in rural Scotland in the early 1990s. At that time, I'd definitely tied a muddler but that was the extent of my deer hair experience, so I was fascinated by the stacked bugs and spent ages trying to work out how they got the different colours of hair to sit in bands and patches across the fly.

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We had a amazing trip to Sungai Tiang with Satu. Fishing was great and everything was nicely organized. That will be topic on next front pages. We are on our way to Perhentian Island. (Might be mistake for resort as all alcohol is included, policy could change after we leave). Fishing part is over and now is Satu's holiday part. We will have one more fishing day in KL, I think it will be pacu fishing.

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Today should have been the first BFCC event of the year, unfortunately the cricket club was forced to cancel a week or so back due to a waterlogged pitch. As is typical with this sort of thing though, it has barely rained at all since the cancellation and the pitch is probably bone dry now, especially after today which was 25 deg C according to my car. I know a BFCC member popped in whilst passing and said the ground was ok but the grass was long – I suspect the club had to postpone the first mow of the year for fear of the tractor cutting ruts into the pristine wicket and outfield.

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