In honor of Father's day, I decided to re-run a piece from 2019. Hope all of you dads have a great Father's day, and a great week!

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Here in Malaysia we are still in lockdown. This means no outdoor exercise like running or cycling on your own. But you are allowed out to go to the supermarket, the hardware shop and work in the factories that are allowed to remain open (virtually all shops are shut). Factories of course is where the virus is mostly spread. It would be quite impossible to get Covid doing a solo activity on your own! Factories and Construction account for 60% of cases. Running, cycling and fly fishing I suspect zero. In fact I don’t know of a single cluster that has come from one person doing anything on their own in the middle of nowhere. My only contact with people is my weekly food shopping. To be honest it has always been like that – even before Covid!

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For many anglers summer means to fish early or late in the day. For me it means to fish both and then sleep some hours during midday and at night!

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Next basic stop during fishing and rafting is also real hotspot. It is quite easy to wade even when high water, nice spots and one awesome side stream. The side stream is only good in high water but what a run. There is two spots about side of 1 square meters together but you should never underestimate this small things.

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When you sit down to tie a batch of flies, you need somewhere to put them after the first coat of varnish (or super glue, if you are so inclined). I've placed them in a piece of foam, stuck them in my tool holder, hackle pliers, clothed hangers etc. for years. And all of these work fine, but I wanted something more convenient, where I could place the fly and get on with the next easier.

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The fishing on the Dee has been a bit of a mixed bag this week. Given all the travel restrictions in place at the moment preventing people travelling abroad on holiday it’s perhaps to be expected that some beats are busier than usual. Tracy and I were therefore pleasantly surprised to arrive at the river mid-morning to find that we had one of the more popular areas to ourselves, even more so as it was the weekend and the weather was lovely. From the car parking area there is the choice of going upstream or down, we decided we’d go up before lunch and then down afterwards.

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