Close, but no blank

When we announced our second fishing- and testing day on this blog, we advised you to sue us if we would come home with a skunk. Well, it was pretty darn close, but Erik and Sander saved the day by catching not much more than a meter of pike together. Here's Sander's half:

There were other catches though, but they don't quite impress on the CV of a pike fly fishing team that's about to compete on an international platform:

And here's one of the excuses:

The other excuse is that our two sponsor-visits put some mayor cuts into our fishing time. But they were quite interesting and productive, so more about that later.