FishTwits Blog

06-08-09

Some Dry times… or were they

So Steve and I have finally graduated which I might say feels great. As you may have noticed we have been a little inactive for the past weeks which solely had to do with the exams consuming all of our time, meaning no fishing. We were so excited to get back on the water we decided to set out to go fishing the following weekend. This proved to be  not as simple as we thought.

Now I must say one of the consequences of graduating is a celebratory drinking binge to make sure you forget everything you have learned the past year. I must sadly confess that our Bacchanalian exploits that weekend did cause us to oversleep the next morning. Everything however was not lost, waking up still drunk I somehow convinced Steve to go fishing. We somehow managed to get to the river lodde. It was a beautiful day, sunny and the temps in the 30s. We started by walking down the river to find a nice secluded spot. We found a nice spot and started fishing. Very quickly though we could not help but take a nap, a bad idea since we both completely fell asleep which proved to be the end of any chance to catching some fish. We ended up waking after several hours with some severe sun burns.

We also managed to get some more fishing done later that week. Our class managed to rent a beach house at Skanör to celebrate so we thought it would be some great multitasking skills to party at the beach house and fish at the same time. The beach ended up not being the typical beach I am use to. First off it resembled more of a marsh than a sandy Californian beach, secondly half of the beach was for nudist which at first I thought was great being in Sweden until we quickly realized it consisted of nothing but old men,  thirdly the beach ended being a huge sand bar which you could end up walking out for what seemed forever and Fourthly there were absolutely no fish!  Walking out on the sand bar the water was perfectly clear so I kept an eye out for any sign of life but the beach was barren, I didn’t see any bait fish seaweed or any bones of what once may have lived there. This beach trip quickly changed the focus from fishing to drinking after that.

All in all we ended up having some dry lines but some wet gullets.

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