SATURDAY21st October 2000

Breakfast was early on the Terres Rouges beachfront today, wild fruit followed by tea and toast was consumed in record time as we watched Douda and his crewman Romanise load the Tipaul. We could see the shadowed outline of the fabled Mitsio Islands on the pink and orange line of the horizon as we ate….

Here is the “gist” of it: The problem has been cleared up. There is no longer an infection in the water. The water is open for fishing, and has been all through the period of time when the problem was present. The management have made a decision to stop providing trout for stocking into other…

For many years I have fished fast flowing rivers with float approaches. It’s a style of fishing I really enjoy as it’s challenging and very rewarding when you get it right. My apprenticeship saw me on rivers like the Derbyshire Derwent, the Upper Trent, the upper Avon, the Wye and, of course, the Severn. Whenever…

It’s been a long day, the Sun has shone, the fish came out to play, someone else was driving so you had a pint or two on the way home…what a brilliant day out.Two or three days later its time to sort your tackle bag out and have a clean up. Its then that you…

Booze and birds, the mainstay of my formative years, that and fishing of course: Statistically I have spent more time, energy and money on these three simple pleasures than I care to own up to. Still, Id hate to lie on my deathbed regretting I hadnt done something constructive with my life. Statistics suck anyway;…

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