Daily Cast Archive

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!!!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It started fast and burned with huge flame. It had up and downs as everything in life. There was some boring parts but that's kind of nice even it is little bit dull. Anyway it seems to be over and looks like it is not in my hands to fix it. Only thing I can do is cross fingers and wait to see how it turns out eventually.

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When I was home, I picked up new bladders for my tube and replaced my old heavily patched ones. The new ones seem to be heavier than the old ones and the seams have more overlap, maybe they go a lot of returns on the old ones. Hopefully this will solve my chronic puncture problem.

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This is going to be a very quick FP this week as we've not been up to much in the way of fishing or casting. The weekend just gone Tracy and I were at a friends wedding, so it was a case of too much to eat and too much to drink, followed by a recovery. Luckily the weather cleared for the time of the outdoor ceremony, which was very lucky because it had been pretty bad in the week leading up to it. However, the weather turned horrible the day after and has been like that since. I had hoped to be honing my accuracy casting for the BFCC meeting this Saturday, but so far this week I've barely been outside of the house (other than to the local shop).

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I’m back in Malaysia after almost a month in the UK. 11 days to IM Malaysia. When I went to the UK this time I gave myself 2 weeks to recover from the flight, reacclimatise and taper my training. A cunning plan, no less.

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