It’s been an interesting week of fishing. Dramatically unsuccessful. There are snakehead babies around and some big fish with them. Most afternoon/evenings I’ve had 2-4 shots. Although none yesterday evening, surprisingly. And none on Saturday evening for that matter either.

My casting has been a bit wild. Not the precise shots I expect and I was starting to lose confidence, which is never a good thing. I thought it was me being a bit off the ball. And spent some time reworking my shot. I haven’t chased babies for some months now.

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A video to show you areas you can take your rental car…photo’s show fish and a wild cat in the forest area.

No fishing this week. No park practice either. Work got me. Running businesses has a way of filling every gap that fishing might have occupied, and this week it filled all of them. So no trip report, and my late haul is no better that it was last Tuesday. Which is to say, improving, but not this week. Although I have a video of last week's fishing and it is interesting how once chasing fish is in the mix your park skills don't seem to work to the level of your best practice - something from Paul article this week as well. I also wanted to incorporate Martyn Whit’s observation on cell phone hollering, but not sure how to apply that to fishing, however I have sympathy for his view.

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Tracy is away this week so I’m on FP. I thought I had a couple of FPs in reserve from Kalyn but I can’t find them! So instead you get me again today. Party time!

Last night was my cooking night. Which has inspired me to write about things that I do once/week. Because, you guessed it, ordinarily I cook once/week. I don’t always cook the same meal and have half a dozen meals that I cook on some sort of random rotation. Last night was spuds. Or “French Potatoes” as I call them.

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Another coastal pattern this week, but a move away from the mullet to a suggestive seatrout pattern that you can press into service for bass too: the Brenda!

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Mid and South Europe is burning and dry as hell. We have had good summer for nature. Well this week we could do also less rain as it had been raining since Monday more or less, not heavy rain so accumulation of is not huge in our area, still everything is wet and you get wet if you do any outdoor work, either from outside if you are without raincoat or from inside if your wear one. 
 
Mushrooms are coming up fast and Satu is stressing out when it will dry up to pick those.   And I'm looking change to go fishing again. 

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I posted a bit about the Swedish nationals in the last FP. Even if I was a mess and a disaster, or as I use to ask Paul; how does it feel to coach a moron? I ended up doing quite good. 

I started by getting on the plane in the front of the plane when my seat was in the last row. The sitting down in the wrong seat on the wrong side. So a flight attendant came with some confused passengers and asked me if I was sure I was in the correct seat. 

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