No fishing again this week, so here is another no fishing one. Auckland, North Island, early November. The harbour temp is still climbing and I am still at the desk. The wind has been relentless this week.

I ran a half marathon this weekend. Fast enough. Finished, which was the point. Getting to the start line took many weeks. A muscle injury that was quite problematic, a rehabilitation, slow kilometres while the leg decided whether it was going to hold. It held. Fitness came back the way it always does, by doing the dull thing again on the days you don't feel like it. There is no trick.

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The lake here has risen and there are snakehead babies around with their parents. The adults that spawn at this time of year are generally smaller adults. Why this would be I don’t know, but the usual size is around 2.5KG. It’s certainly possible to find bigger adults (6-8KG) but this would be extremely unusual. There are however more sets of babies to be found, so I’ve always seen this as one of the prime times of year. You can still get 10-shot days which is as good as it gets nowadays.

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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!

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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