Since the opening of the pike season over
here in Belgium,
is still several weeks away, everything evolves around trout at the moment
(that’s also the main reason why I didn’t post much lately).
At less than half an hour from my home, I
can go fishing for beautiful rainbows at the ‘Hawthorn’ club water.
So this is the water where I spend my
fishing time at the moment.
And this is my setup,
My favourite 7 weight, with (at the moment)
a floating line, and two of these (very easy to tie) flies/streamers on my
leader. I say flies/streamer, because you can fish them very slowly (imitating
for example a damsel nymph) or strip them faster (like a streamer).
And it works very well. This afternoon for
example, I was on the water for little over two hours, and I caught six of
these beauties (all between 40 and 48 cm long). I lost a very fat 50+ trout as
well, but it will still be there tomorrow, so…
I also bought me a new ‘fishing camera’. I
say ‘fishing camera’, because that’s exactly what it is. You see, in the last
two years, I broke three ‘normal’ digital camera’s. The first one fell into the
water (well actually,… I fell into the water and the camera with me,… but
that’s the same thing). The second fell on a rock. And the third one was ‘killed’
by the rain.
So it was time to spend a little bit more on a camera that is a little more ‘forgiving’ to us clumsy fishermen.
So I bought me a Nikon Coolpix AW100. It’s
waterproof (up 10 m) and shockproof (up to 1,5 m), which is exactly what I
needed (it has loads of other gadgets as well of course, like GPS, compass,…
although I really don’t care much about such things).
I can’t say much about it yet, but I
already held it underwater, which didn’t harm it (and that’s already a very good
sign) and it still took nice pictures afterwards. I didn’t drop it yet, but
since I only fished in a 9 m deep lake from a bellyboat, it was probably not
the right time to test that anyway. When I do start to have problems with it, I
will certainly post it.
‘Waterproof’ also means that you can take
pictures under water. Which is something I had to test of course, but I still
have much to learn I think, because in fact, rainbow trout don’t like posing
for a camera under water (please correct me if I’m wrong). I took several
pictures, but this is the only one with (part of) a fish on it.
But I’m sure it will deliver some nice
shots in the future…
