A misty day in Mequeneza

Hi.

The crappy wifi signal in Mequenenza is getting even more iffy that is unless somebody has sussed out I am nicking their signal and spit their dummy out, somebody keeps turning the signal off.

I have been fishing most days now from about 12am to 12 pm and have bugger all to show for it apart from a sun tan, even fatter and being totally chilled out.
To be quite honest I couldn't care less if I catch anything or not, OK! one 40lb er plus would be nice, I think I blew that with the 2 that cracked me off when we first arrived still we have another 6 days to go and I am still whipping them up into a frenzy!.



Not a cloud in the sky but the moon is peeping out!.

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There are hardly any carp coming out of the lake, the ones I know about are from a lad who called in for a chat while passing a couple of days ago, he was on his way to catch the ferry from Barcelona to Ibiza to sell ice cream for the season, he said he always stops to break his journey with a spot of fishing here , he caught two, one at at 18lb and one at 15lb.
There was Eric the optician and his wife Leslie from Royston near Barnsley, he said he had caught one 28lb and that is all the fish I know about. Eric and co were a right laugh and we spent a good afternoon talking to them and they were the first to see the new DVD (Comedy) I made of the time when we were fishing the Barragem at Markadia Portugal.
Oh! I was told by one of the fishing guides who pop's in to see us there have been 2 Siluro (catfish) caught in the town length, one of 175lbs and one 130lbs. He was moaning that the punters were giving him grief because the carp were not crawling up the line, I suppose you can see their point they have come from the UK and are only here for a few days, and expect results. I wonder if Mequeneza is now a spent force with its glory days well over, if it is, it is a shame as so many folk over here rely on fishermen as it is the only tourist industry of any size, especially as it is over 100 miles away from the Costa holiday beaches.

I think when we come next year we will have a “Tourist Information” sign hung on the van as we seem to have a constant stream of folk stopping to ask about stuff and where they can camp without the Garda moving them on, even asking if they can stop for the night near us. “Get on with it mate its nothing to do with us”.

Well we should be in Honfluer at the mouth of the river Seine on Friday the 27th of march to have our Evie checked by the vet and then have her passport stamped up, we will probably stay for a few days as it is a beautiful medieval place and only about a 4 hour drive to the chunnel, which we have to arrive at on the 31st in the early hours of the morning. We set off through at about 5.30am and arrive in the UK at 4.45am, it must be the Tardis!.