Posted in Musings on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The builders are in the final stages of completing my new rod, tackle tying room. This was carefully designed to be light and airy with plenty of space to store rods, dry lines and tie flies. This means having a glass roof and walls.
One strange thing; Mrs. S keeps referring to it as [...]
Posted in Other people's writing, Tackle on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For my first trial of the “Mark II”, I chose the well-known “Shopping Cart Pool” of my local stream. A cooperative Nature called when I was mid-river — and Science answered! Confident that a sufficient amount of liquid had passed through the catheter, I switched the vacuum pump on and…experienced the most unusual sensation. Perhaps [...]
Posted in Little Avon, Musings on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had an after-work visit to my therapist yesterday. She soothes my furrowed brow and washes away the cares of a complicated life but sometimes I come away thinking ‘what was she trying to tell me?’ Not this time though; I left with the clear and resounding message ‘you’re not very good at this; [...]
Posted in Friends, Good Stuff, Memories, Musings, Tales from the river bank, The Monnow on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Taken on the opening evening of the Monnow Social 2007 – Anyone want to hazard a guess at what this sagacious looking lot are saying?
Only a few days until we have to do it all over again
Posted in Friends, Good Stuff, Tackle on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I received this picture from Bob this morning. I’m amazed at how quickly this project is progressing.
Posted in Other people's writing on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More good news. Waterlines is back and Warren is once again posting some of the most readable fishing related stuff on the interweb. Amongst his latest offerings are a couple of short videos of rising fish.
Mopping up shows a confident fish rising again and again to a stream of duns – a great contrast to [...]
Posted in Friends, Good Stuff, Tackle on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s a little bit of alchemy going on in Michigan. Bob is busy turning grass stalks into objects of beauty and soul.
The blank in the centre is a Cattenach 6632 taper that has a Trans-Atlantic journey ahead of it. Mine. Mine Mine!!!
Posted in Musings on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…when you’re not having fun.
I’ve just realised that it’s about 6 weeks since my last post. Well I suppose I’ve been adhering to advice passed to me long ago – ‘if you’ve nothing to say, say nowt’. And that’s the problem; I’ve had nothing to say. After waiting so long for spring and the trout [...]
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