Lured by bold stories from Sander and Henk-Jan about the great fall pike fishing in the 'polders' around Utrecht, Harmen-Jan and Erik felt they needed some decent proof of that. Also, the first sponsor rod arrived and required some serious testing. So a couple of days later, the first Dutch Four Training Session took place in Utrecht.
After Harmen-Jan and Erik traveled half the country to reach these promised rich fishing grounds, the first words of welcome from Sander and Henk-Jan contained a sneaky disclaimer. Sunday is the worst day of the week for pike fishing, they said. The waters are crowded with other fishermen, and so they were on saturday. At the end of the weekend, it would take a very stupid (meaning: small) pike to charge yet another fluffy, feathery thingy passing by.
And so it turned out te be. Perfect, because it gave us an excellent excuse for our obvious lack of fishing skills. We did catch some pike though and had lots of fun along the way.
Test-casting a sponsor rod over and over again eventually annoyed the hell out of...........
.......a small pike.
Nice markings on this one, despite the turbid water.
Captain HJ feeding his team.
The water from the Dutch polders is tasty and highly nutritious.
HJ with a sunday-pike.........
...........and one for Hajé.
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