Restocking trout

 

This afternoon, some nice German fellows delivered a nice quantity of trout at the club water. And I surely didn’t want to miss that.

400 kg of rainbows between 800 gr. and 1 kg (that’s already a very nice size to catch).

 

This is Steven emptying one of the many barrels.

But after a whole week of horrible weather in Ireland (and it’s the same over here in Belgium now), you do think twice before hitting the water again.

 

Although I have to admit that after seeing this quantity of blue/silver beauties, I do feel an itch.

So I’ll light a candle that the weather changes soon. And if it doesn’t, well… f#”!ck the weather, I’ll go out anyway…

Restocking pike

From now on, I can call myself a proud new member of ‘The Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Fly Tying Club Belgium’. And my first time on the club water, was to work, well,... if you can call it work anyway, I just had a great time.

 

Because this gentleman delivered a nice quantity of pike.

 

I had the honour of releasing the first one (this is one of the smaller fish).

 

They are all between 1 and 3 kg (but they will grow!).

 

Then we did a tour on the lake to release them.

 

And a nice lake it is. 9 hectare with a depth of 9 m, reserved for 30 members maximum.

It’s stocked mainly with rainbow trout, but there’s also pike, zander and perch. So once we’re back from Ireland, this will be the place I’ll spend most of my fishing time.

 

You don’t get to be a member so easily. For example, you need a godfather to introduce you.

So I proudly present my godfather, Phillippe (aka the Grey Piker). You see him here testing my new Pikesaber (which he approved).

I’m very happy that I could enter this club, because the water is only at a 30 min drive from my house, it’s beautiful and quiet, and it’s loaded with fish. So you can expect a lot more posts from this location…