| Monday: | Andy Dear |
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| Tuesday: | Paul Arden |
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| Wednesday: | Paul Arden |
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| Thursday: | Martyn White |
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| Friday: | Mika Lappalainen |
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| Saturday: | Paul Arden |
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| Sunday: | Chris Avery |
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4 Year Anniversary
Monday, 7 October 2024
Figured I'd rerun this one since t's the 4 year anniversary of The Kings passing.
Miss you Ed.....the world is a much less interesting place without your music.
Tapering Training
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Apart from recovering from jet lag, which seems to affect me more and more these days, I’ve been busy tapering my training. The secret to good tapering is to gradually decrease the training workload but not so much that you feel stale, but instead are left primed and ready to go. But it never seems to work out that way!
Tomorrow Ashly and I drive to Langkawi for a holiday and the Malaysian Ironman. Ashly gets the holiday and I get the Ironman. Next year Ashly plans to do the 70.3 (the Half Ironman) – so that’s the end of her Langkawi holidays! I’m looking forward to managing Ashly’s pre-race stress!!!
Sungai Tiang 2025
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Next week I will be writing the website for Sungai Tiang. Currently it’s the beginning of the wet season in this part of Malaysia. As a result the river is high and dirty – and closed to fly fishing. However the Wet Season normally ends around late December or early January. At this point the river clears but continues to run high, making it very difficult or even dangerous to cross safely.
So the main season is Feb-April inclusive. This time of year has little or no rainfall, the river is low and clear and perfect for fly fishing. I know how some of you like to plan your trips in advance, usually through necessity, or just being very well organised, and so now is the time to book your spot for next year.
What season are we in?
Thursday, 10 October 2024
It's been a funny week here. At the start of the week Facebook showed me a memory of seabass fishing last year, I was bundled up against the cold, when I saw the notification it was almost 30 degrees and I was wearing flip-flops. This is after the hottest summer on record, and until Tuesday we'd been seeing record temps essentially each day. It's a worry.
Snow
Friday, 11 October 2024
Last Saturday with heavy rain and wind our lake opened again. I had great plan to go fishing on Sunday but weather didn't agree with me. Well you could also say that I was too slow. I missed the window either on river or at lake, as there was nice sunshine and not bad wind for about 2 hours period.
Freshwater camouflage
Saturday, 5 October 2024
Viking Lars is fishing in Sweden. I have an interesting story about camouflage, because about 6 months ago a small crustacean managed to get through my boat’s water filter system and ended up in the toilet! I have no idea how this happened but I spent the next hour trying to “save” him. My idea of saving him was to extract him and put him in the boat’s aquarium, with the idea that I could study it and tie some killer flies. However after accomplishing this challenging feat, it promptly disappeared and I assumed that the gourami had immediately eaten it. I swear that the gourami actually looked guilty.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Sunday, 6 October 2024
When I lived briefly in Blackpool as a photographer, I loved the place only as a backdrop to the fashion shots that I was doing, it was anti-glamourous and a little gritty. A complete counterpoint from that industry that I flirted on the fringes of.A dog tired, pig eared, Victorian seaside town full of faded kitsch, urban decay and some abominable bad taste.
