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Netherlands 28-12-2022

Netherlands 28-12-2022

As usual we ended the season with our “oliebollen snoeken” where the oliebollen stans for “deep fried raisin buns” and “snoeken” for pike fishing.
Five people dodged the wind and rain and caught a total of 8 pike.
Rod weights ranged from #8 to #4 with everything from switch rods to glass rods.

I tossed small streamers with the #4 Hardy glass rod and managed one little pike in front of a weir.
The only spectators where a couple of horses who showed quite an interest in flyfishing.
At the end of the day the tally was 3, 2, 2, 1, 0 – not bad for a late season session.
Around 4 pm it got dark so we called it quits and headed to a local restaurant.

Netherlands 26-06-2022

Netherlands 26-06-2022

And Now for Something Completely Different …

I almost forgot about the date today but it was that day when one of our retired palls would do a little guiding for us at an ornamental pond in order to catch carp.

The evil plan was to chum the carp up to the surface with dog biscuits and then use imitations to catch them. Not my kind of fishing but what the heck … one day was bearable.

So the dog biscuits flew into the pond and not long after that the carp came up carefully sucking down the biscuits. 
The Fulling Mill Disco Biscuit fly was by chance a quite accurate imitation of the dog biscuits
fed to the carp.

The fish were wary though and I missed quite a few strikes but I did manage to catch a few fish.
But it was fun to watch the fish come up and most of our group except the guide caught fish.