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Monday: Andy Dear
Tuesday: Paul Arden
Wednesday: Tim Kempton
Thursday: Martyn White
Friday: Mika Lappalainen
Saturday: Rickard Gustafsson
Sunday: David Siskind
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My final page

Monday, 3 February 2025

“So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
– Douglas Adams

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The Oven

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

week I bought an oven online. It runs on the small gas canisters that I already use for cooking on the boat. This is an exciting development in the Battleship beans and potatoes department. And also means I can prepare my annual lasagne, fresh bread and pizza. How times have changed!

Tomorow I’ll be buying oven pans. It is really very exciting. And I’m looking forward to feasts.

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Fly-casting and Injuries

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Follow up to Rickard excellent article on elbow injuries….great advice after the event.

I am compelled to write as I am concerned about the injuries that can be caused by poor casting technique, trying too hard, and misapplication of power.  Fly fishing is an expensive sport, and so the demographic is mainly older folk who can afford it, but are not at the elite casting level.  In our fly casting schools, we ask for several overhead casts, with and without hauling. Usually  nice tight  forward loops and wide, non energised back loops.   Further, the line hand moves in unison with the rod hand…there is no haul…the line hand is going along for the ride.  So poor back cast and little or no haul. Many are trout fishermen however and these casts get the job done.

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Piss Poor Preparation Equals Normal Performance?

Thursday, 6 February 2025

It's been absolutely freezing here this week, but we've also had a decent bit of rain too which has got the river in decent shape for the coming weekend. It's also getting to time for the crayfish to start waking up and the early season smallmouth fishing.

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I finally touch it

Friday, 7 February 2025

Horror week start to be behind. Tractor came from repair last Friday evening and it was helpful as we got some snowing again. Also reindeer feeding is easier when you have tractor to spread silage.
 
Saturday I had feeling in my tooth which got worst during Sunday. Painkillers was needed. Monday I had to call dentists as feeling was there and not really help from painkillers.

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Fly Casting Elbow Exercises

Saturday, 1 February 2025

Since the last time I wrote about pain in the elbow area I have learned some new things that have helped me progress in the recovery. On the post Paul made on Facebook to share the FP David Thompson commented and shared what he has used to recover from fly casting elbow. That was some good stuff and I have been using it since I read about it and made really good progress with my pain. It has made the recovery progress better than with my own strategies.

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Chuck and Duck

Sunday, 2 February 2025

I was at the beach Wednesday looking for surf perch or halibut. There was also a possibility of striped bass near the outlet of Ballona creek. I was fishing a checkerboard while walking north and fished a no-name weighted blue and white streamer - sort of a clouser with synthetic bushy wing - on the way back south. A couple of bops on my head reminded me of a video from a couple of years ago by Gunnar Brammer. Gunner is a Canadian streamer fly tier and designer who I think currently lives in Minnesota. While I don’t buy everything he recommends, he’s obviously a knowledgeable and skilled fisher adept at casting big heavy flies. He advocates years of practice (I can get behind that) because, he says, “Alls you want to do is fish for musky because everything else is pointless.”

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Ronan's Report

Saoirse Don Phalaistín

Fishing continues, both work and pleasure. It’s been one of the most challenging seasons to date with extreme wind being the hardest factor. Some days I tried to hide from it, other days I went into the teeth of it. I got the desired results most days but they didn’t come easy. With the challenge […]

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