Late post, but here’s a sweet spotted bass that was a blast on the Seiryu-X 45:
20597218_10213914725887679_1290681336738752371_n by Chris Lynch, on Flickr
Fish photos
Chris_Lynch
(Chris Lynch)
#81
dwalker
(David Walker)
#83
Noooo, 'fraid not. I still have mine.
Just before TFForum closed you had a friend you believed was hot to buy one. I offered that maybe we could make a deal, have him email me, but I never heard from the guy.
Joakim
(Joakim Karlsson)
#85
I had a theory about a certain place, and it exceeded my expectations. Many good-sized brookies today.
Joakim
(Joakim Karlsson)
#87
Söderbärke isn’t far from here. My door is open to everyone, plenty of space.
Paul_Gaskell
(Paul Gaskell)
#88
Peder
(Peder)
#93
You’ve been fishing in the Dolomites recently?
Absolutely lovely part of the world.
Paul_Gaskell
(Paul Gaskell)
#94
Those two pics were from last year, but JP and Vito went back this year too. I’m hopefully going next summer again.
Joakim
(Joakim Karlsson)
#95
Fantastic photos Paul, thanks for sharing.
The Dolomites seems great, on the bucket list for sure, a long with the Pyrenees.
Evan3000
(Evan R.)
#96
Not fair, Paul: I was trying to get some writing done and then I saw your photos and now all I can think about is fishing. 
The Dolomites are amazing — I’ve never fished there but I’ve done some good snowboarding and a lot of eating there. The restaurants are incredible.
Paul_Gaskell
(Paul Gaskell)
#97
There is a small chance that we (me and JP) will be able to run a tenkara onstream seminar event there next year with some special Japanese guest instructors. I really hope that one comes off as the food, people, rivers, scenery and more are just stunning. The rivers, structurally, have quite a Japanese flavour while still being unique to their local geography and culture.
Keeping everything crossed.
P
Paul_Gaskell
(Paul Gaskell)
#99
There’s a few more from the Dolomites in the Spring Tenkara Angler issue from earlier this year (on p92):
Paul_Gaskell
(Paul Gaskell)
#100
Did a tenkara demo yesterday at a “World Rivers Day” event in Grantham…Had a little casting demo area roped off in a nice park next to a river where habitat restoration works had been done (shared with the excellent Peter Arfield who was doing western casting demos).
Although a couple of trout were spotted, these always got spooked by members of the public before I could do a fishing demo targeting them. But I did manage to find some willing chub and dace to show a few fly manipulations to.
Thanks to Tom Cull for the photos below:
