A nice day to wet my pants

It was hot today, and for the second time in this summer, I was wading wet.

Fishing was slow at start, but I started getting hits in the afternoon. I think I got 5 fish with one break off at the end. I didn't think it was a big fish. It could be tailor biting off my tippet or just having a bad knot. After that, the wind and tide sifted, and fish were gone.

It was a nice wet wading weather today.


I don't know how the fish hit a fly to get the fly stuck like that.


Friday sky. It was beautiful but no fish.

Brompton folding bicycle

My fishing friend told me that fish were biting around lunch time last week, so I was curious to find out how it would be like this weekend. However, by the time we finished a coffee break around 11:00, it was already getting too hot.

So I stayed home to work on my new bicycle this afternoon instead.　It is a neat folding bike from England, and I am thinking to use it for my next fishing trip.

今朝は、久々に釣りに行ったのですが、一釣りして、コーヒーブレイクを終えた頃になると、暑くなりだしたので、さっさと帰って新しい自転車をいじる事にしました。

ブロンプトンと言うイギリスのフォールディング・バイクです。折り畳むと、とても小さくなります。

フィッシングトリップ仕様に金曜日に買って来たオプションの荷台を付ける事にしました。チャリンコ屋のおじさんは、「２時間の作業だ」と言っていましたが、なんの事はない、１時間で完了です。

Canon EF 24mm f2.8

Long time no fish

The end of year is always busy for teachers. Marking assignments, doing various paperwork, etc. So, I haven't been fishing for the past two weeks. For a person who fishes as regularly as those local pelicans, it is a fairy long time.

Actually I went out for an hour on Wednesday evening, but fishing was as unexciting as marking a test paper for a kid getting D grade.

Anyway, I got time this morning and the tide looked OK, so I went to fish with my friend, Trevor for a couple of hours. It was nice to be back on the water and to get something on the end of my line.

Speaking of a come back, my Canon D10 came to life again. It stopped working about a month ago for some reason. I left it for while, and when I turned on, it started working again. Lucky me.