| Monday: | Paul Arden |
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| Tuesday: | Graeme Christie |
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| Wednesday: | Tracy&James |
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| Thursday: | Martyn White |
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| Friday: | Mika Lappalainen |
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| Saturday: | Rickard Gustafsson |
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| Sunday: | David Siskind |
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The swimming starts now!
Monday, 9 November 2026
It’s less than two weeks to the Malaysian Ironman so it’s probably time to start swimming!! Everything else is pretty good. Running well. Cycling well. Have my nutrition planned. Now I just have to remember how to swim.
So I’ve placed the Battleship over some deep water, with few stumps, where I’m less likely to swim into a set of Snakehead babies… or snakes. And this week I will dedicate myself to getting the feel back.
A Knot in the Backing
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Auckland, North Island, NZ
Weather first. Saturday's forecast was thunderstorms most of the day, then the sun out in the evening and the sea going flat. After two weeks of writing about not fishing, I decided to strongly believe in the second half of that forecast and ignored the first.
The harbour is still warming, 17.4 degrees now, and warm water might mean the big migratory ones are back. Or might not. I hadn't had the boat out for a while. That was reason enough.
Choking
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
I missed last week's FP because I wasn't feeling too good after returning from France. I think that maybe some insect bites became infected and I ended up with an angry rash on my back, where I knew some River Dordogne inhabitant had nibbled me, along with a suspicious swelling in my groin area – according to Google the nearest lymph nodes to an infection can swell when called into defensive action. I'm almost back to normal now however, I'm just left with a slightly itchy patch of skin with some redness.
The Good Bunny
Thursday, 5 November 2026
This week's fly is about as easy as they come, and it'll serve you for fresh and saltwater whether it's flats carp, smallies or spooky bones. It's the Bunny Crab!
Last time
Friday, 6 November 2026
Temperatures are dropping and we had snowing again just to be gone mostly two days later. Lakes are slowly getting ice. I will have look today how it looks on ours. I haven't got time to get some whitefish for wintertime yet and might be it is too late.
A weekend of fishing
Saturday, 7 November 2026
I’m in the middle of packing for a weekend of fishing. The destination is Hökensås, a quite famous area for fishing. At least here in Sweden and I’ve seen some FPs from Viking Lars about fishing there. It is a beautiful area, it feels like being up north even if it is located in the “south” of Sweden. What south in Sweden is depends on who you ask. For the guys in Piteå south is what I call north. As Sweden is a quite long country. For me Piteå is really far north. If I go the equal distance south I think I end up I northern Italy.
Big Week!!!!
Sunday, 8 November 2026
Election Day in the US and probably the beginning of a protracted struggle to limit some of Donald Trump's so far unchecked power - if the results align with public opinion polls. These thugs have crossed so many lines of propriety and law, emiserating their constituents and spreading violence world-wide. Trump and the whole enabling bunch will fight tooth and nail to avoid the accountability that will surely come if they lose their grip. Step one is today. I’ve got my fingers crossed. Then someday knock down the ballroom, beautify the golf course - installing running trails and opening up free to the public, block the arch, defund ICE and prosecute their villains, release the detained, prosecute the operators of the detention facilities - the list can go on and on. But I’m fishing, or trying to, this week.
