Poorly pussy, what a gob! the fish not me

Hi.

Tuesday the 24 th of feb, this is the last time I will be able to log on in Ferraira as we are moving on to Spain on Thursday morning. The area around the village of Mequenenza at the side of the river Ebro is very rural and I do not think that television has arrived never mind the tinternet!, the hobby the inhabitants have is walking about looking lost and throwing bricks at one another.

It is 637 miles according to the navigator from Markadia, so we should just about manage it in a days driving, if we get fed up we will be able to pull into one of the petrol station overnight stops along with the lorry drivers. One thing about the trip back North is it will be very sunny and hot as the temperature as I write this is about 27 degrees in Ferraira.

It is there bank holiday this week until Thursday, with lots of Maddi Grass going on especially down on the Algarve about 80 miles from here, won't be going down this year as the weather is just as good where we are.

he fishing is now crap the hot weather has killed it, there is nothing moving on the lake, Sandra spanked me again yesterday she caught one and I blanked, just one massive take that cracked me off before I even picked up the rod.

Poorly pussy has appeared again I think I have caught it 4 times now and Sandra once, its a tenacious bugger and it always gives a good fight. I have taken a photo of it and I will put it on the blog.

A test bit of video I do not know if you will get it?

I will sign off now and will try to nick a wifi signal in Mequenenza or Fragga when we get to Spain.

From a very sunny hot Ferraria Portugal.

The biggest so far just over 15lbs

Hi.Thursday 19th Feb and the weather is absolutely glorious and has been for the last week, we have just been into Beja to the hypermarket and to McDonald's for an e:number sandwich, it was very nice !.

The fishing is not as good at the moment as the sun is beating down on the barragem and the fish have moved up above the thermocline into the warmer water but they are not even feeding on the surface. Never mind it is excellent for us, I sit in my shorts with no shirt on to take in the sun.

We have a picnic lunch with a few cold beers and wine at the side of the lake and watch the wildlife, the amount of wild rabbits running around has to be seen and the racket they make calling to each other has to be believed.

There are all kinds of exotic birds flying about, I will have to ask Adie what they are when I next see him, (the miserable old git).

Poorly pussy is showing quite regular!, I have caught it 3 times and Sandra once, there is now daughter of poorly pussy I caught her yesterday, the same mouth deformation but half the size.

I have taken a video of "Poorly Pussy" and I will try and load it down here, I do not know if it will work?.(

Nope it failed)

Sandra has adopted our next door neighbour Marjorie as her friend, they seem to get on quite well, her and husband ray have just had their dog put down at a local vet in Beja the same one we took Evie too when she had her ear problem, apparently it was not long after we arrived, so they have both semi-adopted our Evie and Marjorie is always bringing round snap for our Evie much to her delight.

I think we will be moving off the campsite and on to Mequeneza Spain on the 27th of this month, if the weather is half as nice as it is here it will be brilliant,!!!!!!!

Hi.

The weather has now bucked up in a big way it is glorious!.

Sandra and myself are never away from the lake fishing at every opportunity.

The biggest I have had is about 15lbs with a couple of 10 and 8 lb fish, most are about 4/5 lbs but all make very good fishing.

We have decide we can not be arsed moving now we are on the cheapest rate at Markadia, so we will be here for the next 2 weeks and then we will go straight to Mequeneza in Spain for about 2 weeks, we will then make our way to Hornfluer in France so Evie can see the vet and have her passport stamped up to get back into the UK.

We have just had a ride out to Pego De alter to see Arthur to collect a walking stick he has carved for Sandra, it is a work of art too good to use as a stick, well outside anyway. it will be good to beat the dog with so long as she doesn't bleed on it.

Just a few more photos looking out of the motor home window, the small dots on the far bank are Sandra and Evie.

Hi.

Sounds like you are getting it bad in the UK with the snow and ice, here in Portugal it is overcast at the moment but very warm and sticky.

It is a very relaxing place where we are at the moment, as I look out of the car window opposite the Tourist Information building there are loads of locals all hanging about chewing the fat, in fact that's all everybody seems to do for excitement round here, and drive around in there beat up pickups at 20 mph, about as fast as you can go as the roads are atrocious, any faster and your fillings would fall out.

The wifi signal the other day was rubbish and so slow I lost the will to live as I waited for the down load, so I just gave up. I will try to load down some more photos today so if you see them OK if not I have given up again.

The fishing has slowed down a touch, well it has for me as Sandra has spanked me twice the last time she caught 4 carp, me "water licked", hmmmm. The water level in the barragem has risen about 6ft over the last 2/3 days making the place where we sat fishing well underwater.

I have finally sussed out what was breaking me so much on the initial take, it is barbel. I caught one yesterday and it nearly pulled the rod out of the rest a very violent take, I also struck into one fish which went straight out and snapped 15lb line like cotton taking the bolt rig and everything with it, I suspect that was a barbel as well.

We are fishing at distance about the same as life belt to life belt on the caravan pond, and we are line clipping off to land in the same spot and build a pile of ground bait up with sweet corn in, this seems to work quite well as we are catching far more than anybody else.

I have found a fishing tackle shop not far from where I am typing this, he has just completed 60hours of English lessons and is more than happy to talk to me in English as I am his first English speaking customer, he is teaching me Portuguese words for different bits of fishing tackle, its a right laugh you just can not pronounce the words and he laughs his head off at my attempts, Foreign git.