It’s been an interesting week of fishing. Dramatically unsuccessful. There are snakehead babies around and some big fish with them. Most afternoon/evenings I’ve had 2-4 shots. Although none yesterday evening, surprisingly. And none on Saturday evening for that matter either.

My casting has been a bit wild. Not the precise shots I expect and I was starting to lose confidence, which is never a good thing. I thought it was me being a bit off the ball. And spent some time reworking my shot. I haven’t chased babies for some months now.

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A video to show you areas you can take your rental car…photo’s show fish and a wild cat in the forest area.

No fishing this week. No park practice either. Work got me. Running businesses has a way of filling every gap that fishing might have occupied, and this week it filled all of them. So no trip report, and my late haul is no better that it was last Tuesday. Which is to say, improving, but not this week. Although I have a video of last week's fishing and it is interesting how once chasing fish is in the mix your park skills don't seem to work to the level of your best practice - something from Paul article this week as well. I also wanted to incorporate Martyn Whit’s observation on cell phone hollering, but not sure how to apply that to fishing, however I have sympathy for his view.

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Tracy is away this week so I’m on FP. I thought I had a couple of FPs in reserve from Kalyn but I can’t find them! So instead you get me again today. Party time!

Last night was my cooking night. Which has inspired me to write about things that I do once/week. Because, you guessed it, ordinarily I cook once/week. I don’t always cook the same meal and have half a dozen meals that I cook on some sort of random rotation. Last night was spuds. Or “French Potatoes” as I call them.

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Another coastal pattern this week, but a move away from the mullet to a suggestive seatrout pattern that you can press into service for bass too: the Brenda!

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Mid and South Europe is burning and dry as hell. We have had good summer for nature. Well this week we could do also less rain as it had been raining since Monday more or less, not heavy rain so accumulation of is not huge in our area, still everything is wet and you get wet if you do any outdoor work, either from outside if you are without raincoat or from inside if your wear one. 
 
Mushrooms are coming up fast and Satu is stressing out when it will dry up to pick those.   And I'm looking change to go fishing again. 

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I heard from my meditation teacher this week. He’s decided to discontinue leading our Sangha which has been meeting weekly, then monthly, for practice and dharma talks for 15 years. The enterprise is running out of energy.  Dan was having a difficult time mining the sutras and the zeitgeist for fresh material. I get it.  The turning point was probably more than six years ago now, the beginning of the pandemic. I’m not sure whether it was the loss of face-to-face contact or just the passage of time - members grew old, dropped out, and in one case passed. Maybe it was neither. The nature of the practice may have seeded its own demise.  Jason Siff traveled to Sri Lanka in the 80s returning with a new practice he called Recollective Awareness - expanding attention to the moment to include recollection of the entire meditative experience. RA is atypical and did not easily attract new acolytes.  It’s also a little exhausting. I’m not sure how the group will wind down but I think I’ll lose touch with the members and I’ll miss them.

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