Thursday, 2 June 2011

100% RELAX

There’s nothing that makes you feel better than living outdoors for a while. I got home a couple of days ago and I’ve been very busy since, so I already want to go back, but that won’t be before another (demanding) week and a half. But here’s already something about my last trip.

 
This is what it’s all about of course, catching trout.
I won’t post a lot of pictures of them, because they were all between 25 and 30 cm, and they all look the same.







 


Except for the different way they are speckled.










 

I also have to say that I didn’t fish as much as I intended to. Sure, I’ve fished every day, but only in the evening. The rest of the day was purely relaxing, reading, enjoying nature and silence, and most of all tying flies (I’ll do an other post later on my most popular ties of the moment), and watching this family of swans (with 7 chicks!) who visited me a couple of times daily.


 

We are still only aloud to fish from the river bank in Belgium (until June 4), so I intended to fish in France, but this has been the warmest springtime since 1893 (and an extremely low water level), so all of the hot spots that I knew were totally covered with flowers.






 


And I am proud to present my pupil, Kylian Colmant, seriously infected by the fly-tying virus, and a natural talent to cast a fly rod. He visited me a couple of times a week to tie flies and learn how and where to cast them.








Even his twin sister Marion came along now and then, to give it a try (of course, all of her flies had to be pink).






 



And afterwards we had to test the flies of course.

I can guarantee a lot more pictures like this in the future, because he is a real natural when it comes to casting a fly, and we have big plans together for all kinds of species… 

4 comments:

e.m.b. said...

Wow! Love that extra-speckles! Your living out-of-doors holiday sounds absolutely divine. It was great to have you back and posting, but for your sake, I', glad you get to go back soon!

David Romanillos said...

Hello Lonesome !
Welcome to real life in the city.
Very nice river & trout. I see what you've been good and you have little fishermans. It´s the future ...
Greetings

Xavier C. said...

Hello Lonesome
Que la vie est simple ..... !!
elles sont bien belle les truites des chez toi
Xavier

the lonsome piker said...

Thanks guys (and lady!), it feels more like home at the moment, and I can’t wait to go back!