| Monday: | Paul Arden |
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| Tuesday: | Graeme Christie |
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| Wednesday: | Paul Arden |
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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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Back in the Swing of Things
Monday, 24 August 2026
It’s been a bit chaotic recently but life is a bit more normal again and there are fish to be caught as well! Today I’ve uploaded a video on shots, a bit about Snakehead and some thoughts on the HT8/Tornado 8.
This was the second rod we completed and it has certainly served me well. All my biggest Snakehead, ie over 6KG, my largest brown trout… from Russia at 11.5lbs and some nice bonefish in the Maldives too! For me it’s really my goto shot-taking rod for 1-1/0 sized flies.
Filed Under Other
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
No trip report again this week. Work is still eating the calendar, and the limestone maps are still sitting half-tested on my phone. But I have been doing some accounting. Not the business kind. I wear a sports watch, and sitting at the desk I pulled my activity data to see what it thinks I do with my life.
Fly casting practice is not on the list. Not under any name. The hours in the park with the HT 6, 7 and 8wt and the orange fluff, the hoops, the 123.4 feet. Invisible. If I want a park session recorded I have to file it under "Other", which is where the watch puts activities it doesn't believe in.
Once a week
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
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.
Brenda!
Thursday, 20 August 2026
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!
One day wonder
Friday, 21 August 2026
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.
Report from the Swedish nationals
Saturday, 22 August 2026
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.
Readiness
Sunday, 23 August 2026
I’m looking at Martyn’s Ghostbuster which brings to mind the flies I’ll need for my trip to Argentina in November. I’m running out of time to get ready. I can’t believe it’s late August already. I’ll be fishing for dorado. Apparently, in the rivers I’ll be visiting, they feed on smaller fish at night but while laid up during the day will reactively eat cicada and big hopper imitations. More often they’ll ignore all offerings. Like fishing for carp, it’s supposedly best to stalk stealthily looking for a cooperative fish rather than changing flies to hopefully fool one who’s disinclined, whatever the reason. It’s a walking, spotting, and presentation game. Only the first cast counts.
