i apologise profusely for the lack of posts this last week. i have been away fishing in France.To escape from the stresses of duck farming i like to go to France for a week and just sit by a lake and fish 24/7. It is amazingly stress releasing though it does have points of high excitement. for example i hooked a whacking great carp after losing several over the first few days. It managed to swim into a weed bed about ten feet out and get itself stuck in full view of me and my mate Gaby who was fishing with me. the only was to extract it from the weed was for somebody to physically get in the lake and get it. Gaby was delegated as the fish retriever (as he is smaller than me and therefore lower in the food chain) he raised the valid possibility of drowning, which i countered with the certainty of being beaten to death with my fishing rod if he did not get in. to give him credit he overcame his fear of drowning and went in the lake (assisted by my right foot). the fish was released from the weed and duly landed. at 51lb it is my third fifty and second best carp.
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whereabouts in france?
ReplyDeletea little village called st dizier. about four hours from calais in the champagne region.
ReplyDeleteSounds wonderful, and the fish looks pretty good! Was just wondering how close you were to Jen (you have worked out that I'm Jen Cohen's Mum I presume??). She's been in Bordeaux at the Uni for 2 months and is now at a YWAM base near Avignon for 3 weeks, then home for what's left of the holidays.
ReplyDeleteKeep the blog going, it's nice to have something intelligent to read on the web.