-English version follows Japanese-

ワンドル川へ、バーベル釣りへ。

第一夜:
釣り人多し。
買い物客行き交うスーバーマーケットの正面入り口前の橋付近にて人生初のバーベルが掛かる!…も、
猛ダッシュで水草の下に潜られ、ラインブレーク&エスケープ(T_T)

第二夜:
今宵もまた釣り人、通行人共に多し。
同じ場所、同じ時間、
待つこと1時間…
フィッシュ・オン!
凄いパワー、
猛烈なファイト!
こちらも強引な力技で!
新しく購入したネットが大活躍!
遂に念願の、初のロンドン・バーベルをゲット!
全長約50cmの猛者!
通りがかりのお姉さんがお魚とのツーショットを撮ってくれました。
このハンサム、比較的綺麗な川で育ったせいでしょうか、清潔で全く臭わない魚でした。
バイバイ、また遊ぼうね🐟🎶

二夜連続して薄ら寒い中での夜釣りとなったため、少々風邪気味?な感じがしますが、
その喜びは補って余りあるものでした!


Fishing Expedition on the Wandle

Night one:
The stretch was teeming with pedestrians as well as fishermen, for there is a large shopping complex right in front of this part of the river.
On my very first cast on the swim, I happened to hook what could have been my first ever London Barbel!... which, immediately dove fiercely underneath a patch of weeds and broke away(T_T)

Night two:
'My office' was 'business as usual' with my fellow anglers and the supermarket shoppers.
I put bait alarms on both of my rods.
An hour or so elapsed, while it was getting darker.
Around the same hour, same spot as the day before, one of the devices went off abruptly.
...Beep! Beep!
Fish on!
I sprang up from my chair and snatched the rod for the battle.
Power against power,
Will against will,
I cannot let you get away this time...!
Finally I managed to secure my opponent in my brand new landing net.
Yes, I did it!

A lady offered to take a photo of me with the wild beast, which I gratefully accepted.
Having grown up in clean water, the beautiful, healthy, 50cm animal completely lacked any unpleasent 'fishy' odour.

Two consecutive rather nippy evening sessions have left me with, what I suspect to be, a slight cold.
Was it worth it?
ABSO-FREEKING-LUTELY!!


KIMG1985
チャブ、また君か。
It's you again, Chub!?

KIMG1989
近い、近いよ君!
…竿の上で遊んだり、目の前でホバリングしたりと、
絶妙の距離感を心得ている都会の小鳥。
...Sometimes hovering right in front of my face, other times playing on my rod...
These street-smart little urban creatures have the perfect sense of comfortable distance between themselves and the rest of the world. 

KIMG1993
見よ、この精悍な面構えとフォルムを!
Look at the fighter!

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わーいヽ(^O^)/
Woo hooヽ(^O^)/

KIMG2026
ワンドルの清流よ、永遠なれ。
Long live the Wandle, the clear stream of the metropolis...