Monday, June 25, 2012

Gone Fishing

Last Sunday we bought Rémi his first full season fishing permit, available in all public lakes anywhere in France, and all for 5€ (must be under 12yrs)!!! Now this I thought to myself, with visions of the Trout we caught on a trip to Italy a few years ago with big cousin Clement, could be the source of many a healthy, cheap BBQ.
Val Ferret, Italy

The permit in Italy is 40€/adult and 28€/child for the day only!, with a maximum of 5 trout per person (unless you have a wink wink nod nod agreement with the fishing warden, but I wouldn't know anything about that)
Alas you get what you pay for! In this case not much!! well nothing at all actually.





A fellow fisherman mentioned that we, and obviously him also, might have a little more success if Oban was constantly jumping in the water! - do you really think so?
Oh well never mind (lucky I bough some chicken that morning) if all else fails there's always bananas or chewy logs to be found!


Despite this, Rémi had a wonderful time, and is enthusiastic about going again.  Fine by me! I got to sit and knit (yes, in public no less) and Tino amused himself pulling faces and playing in a small stream near by.
Unfortunately 3 garden worms perished for our efforts!


4 comments:

  1. What a fun trip, even if there were no fish caught! Your boys' faces are priceless!

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  2. oh wow it's gorgeous there. what kind of fish will you catch emma? cute photos of your cute boys. and i'm so glad you brought your knitting!

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  3. You Photoshopped the children onto that background, that could not possibly be a place where real people live! What a setting! Your fellow fisherman was very subtle, I had to smile. I fear, in our case, it would not have been the dog making splashes. As with so many things, I think I will wait till the twins are 8 before we go fishing!

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  4. Just stumbled upon your blog via Soule mama, hoping to come to your part of the world next year for some mt biking/ family holiday - looks fantastic place to live.

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