Years ago I used to enjoy watching extreme sports....surfing, BMX, skateboarding, you name it I watched it. I can vividly recall an interview done with BMX rider Chad Kagy, when he was on one of Tony Hawk's mega extreme sports tours. There was a group of athletes in the back of the tour bus playing action sports oriented video games, while Chad sat up in the front of the bus by himself. When asked why it was that he wasn't in the back playing with the rest of the group he replied " BECUASE I RIDE THE BILE FOR REAL"

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By the time this FP is live I’ll be back in the UK at short notice. So for everyone who I’m coaching via Zoom, I’ll be on UK time for the next 3 weeks! I think that works out better for almost everyone. Graeme in NZ might be the only challenge to arrange, but I’m sure we will find a way!

I’m not going to have very much free time however; I have some family duties, Zoom coaching and an Ironman coming up, back in Malaysia in 5 weeks time. But I do plan for some casting and in particular I have 7 MED5s I want to thoroughly measure and test in the field. I think that will be very interesting. I’ve brought the tape measure, the vernier callipers and the drug dealer scales. I’ve also brought the HT6, HT10 and HT12 along for the ride.

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Flying back from Malaysia was a long trip this time. And I am in Zombie Land. Tracy and James are away today so it’s another exciting FP from me that I’ll upload before crashing — just in case I sleep in tomorrow! Although I do plan a 20km run and a one hour swim, some flycasting and no doubt other excitement.

In Rome airport I was watching a video from my mate Morsie on leaders failing to straighten. I thought it was excellent and I enjoyed it very much. All the details were in there, I would have just reversed the order.

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After being in Scotland for the wettest August since records began, early September has actually been quite nice to me. I found some old books while rummaging in my dad's cupboards and picked another few up in second hand bookshops. But more importantly, we've had cool, but stable weather and only a little rain. So Davie and I went out on the loch we grew up fishing. It's not a huge water at a couple of miles long and maybe 3/4 wide, but plenty big enough for a long day's lure or fly fishing.

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We are saying that all the great ideas born in sauna. That's means that all stupid ideas born there, sitting with friends and talking. My "great" ideas born normally when driving a car. I like driving, especially alone, music loud and just let thoughts run. Then I catch thought and turn that as "great" idea.

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Insects buzzed and clicked in the late summer haze, the sound lapped around me like the waters, sometimes blended and confused with the songbirds ducking and diving in the nearby undergrowth, wittering and chirruping too. As the stream side community nattered its way through a sunny hot afternoon and I waded my way upstream. Not expecting too much from the day, apart from peace, quiet, and respite from that life shared with humans and their ridiculously demanding customs and rules. The kind of day when a blank session is meaningless and irrelevant. Happier just to be part of the streams tale, controlled by the laws of nature only, and with just the chattering of birdsong for company. (and maybe the brief meeting with a Trout or maybe not; who cares?! )

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