| Monday: | Kalyn Hoggard |
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| Tuesday: | Rickard Gustafsson |
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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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Meanwhile in Long Beach…
Monday, 15 December 2025
Huddled in the corner of a plane bound for Chicago, the glare of my phone reflects off of my fishing glasses, as I reflect on practice.
Im doing thumbjitsu typing the best that I can on my phone. I know there are at least 6 of you readers out there and I try to never let you down.
Paul is a bit off.
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
So at the moment I’m going around the lake and trying to figure stuff out. There has been quite a bit to figure out as Paul is sick. So my days have been like going out fishing for a while, coming back to check on Paul, rest a bit and out on the lake again.
Back in the land of the fishing
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Incredibly disappointing to get seriously ill for three days of Rickard’s trip. This has never happened before and I haven’t felt that ill for as long as I can remember. Even Covid was “like a birthday present” by comparison. Yes I’ve showed Rickard half of “Withnail and I.”
2 in 1 Perfection
Thursday, 18 December 2025
This week's fly of the week is another exercise in perfection. I'm really spoiling you, but it is nearly Christmas. What is this perfect fly? Bob Wyatt's deer hair emerger of course.
repeat repeat
Friday, 19 December 2025
Our mini holiday with Satu in Sweden was great. I had three weeks between playing snooker and using cue. During first frame on Friday I notice again similarity with fly casting. While making "fake" shot and aiming I could see easily how cue was moving sideways. And that lead missing easy shots, if I put more power, always missed a shot. When keeping so-called pocket speed, there was no problem. When doing backspin with white ball, often miss cueing and missed shot.
From the jungle to Gothenburg
Saturday, 20 December 2025
I’m on my way home from some really great, some less great and a bit scary days, and adventurous days in the jungle. Right now in the taxi and then 26 hours of air travel. Hopefully I’ll do that again. To get a redo of the missing days, it would’ve been fun to get some casting in and a number of more beers. It was a blast seeing Paul, or as some refers to him; my second girlfriend.
