I’m not sure if it works this way with everyone, but as I spend time on a skill or a hobby, I tend to keep moving the goal posts to make things harder. I used to really enjoy hunting deer, but I only get the intense exhilaration when hunting them with a bow. There is just something about honing your ability to accurately shoot, putting yourself in a situation where you may see your quarry, and being so close to them in the heat of the act that you can smell their breathe. Unfortunately, that time of year has been taken over by fly fishing, and I don’t expect there to be many changes to that anytime soon.

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Ronan is currently visiting for four days of fishing. Hopefully by the time this page goes live he will have hooked and landed a Snakehead! So far we haven’t flipped any boats, or been electrocuted. But the adventure is still young!!

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I saw a hand specialist at the local hospital last week, a bit late having injured myself in April but that's the Welsh NHS for you. The upshot was that I'd have probably been operated on if I'd of had my accident at home, but as my 'recovery' was so far down the line, operating now would come with absolutely no guarantees that any improvement could be made. As such, I'm now waiting for an appointment with a physiotherapist plus I'm on the list for some nerve conduction tests to try and bottom out why I have such limited movement and why my hand goes numb after only a few minutes of holding a fly rod.

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Busy August is behind. It was good one, lot of guiding and some own fishing included. First half went more or less with making silage and other stuff. Then we really kicked off. Really good days with guests, August is still my favourite fishing month here.
 
I missed last week’s FP as we were returning from Sweden and driving home on last Friday. Satu was too tired to drive so I had to drive and I couldn't write FP. Thursday evening went around snooker table as we had some really tight games with Stefan. We played until 3 am.

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When you want to improve in some technical activity it is good to think about technical aspects. Why and how things work or not. Look and analyse what top performers do good, what they do and still perform good. Everything a top performer does isn’t the most optimal thing to do, sometimes they do perform good even though they do something a bit wrong. But sometimes you pick up bad things from this, when you do you hopefully quickly find that it wasn’t good for you and can move on. Sometimes you can really get into trouble just because of thinking.

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Labor day has passed. The prime corbina season is slipping away. I don’t have a lot of good shots remaining this year. I’m sad. I extended my range a little and drove up to a beach north of Ventura. Surfline had predicted a small low-energy swell but, alas, the swells were two feet anyway and came in every which way. I fished the quarter moon so the tide was a bit too high and the beach too steep throughout the morning to allow fish to feed leisurely. Also I got there a little late. But as I walked the beach I immediately spotted some backs and fins amidst the chaos. But when the waves are energetic and inconsistent it’s hard to follow the fish or predict exactly where they’ll pop up. I was reduced to fishing the water with a pinkish-orange corbina crack fly. I hooked up once but lost the fish after a couple of runs. My take away is that the fish are often in tight and feeding but conditions dictate whether they can be spotted. They’re in there. God knows what they’re doing and how they’re feeding. Thank goodness casting is a pleasure and that it’s not insane to fish the water. 

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