Death and the flybox

While fishing the coast for a few hour yesterday, I caught a nice sea trout. My intention was to release it, but things developed a little differently.

While fighting it, I wanted a picture of the fish in the water before I would slip out the hook and let it go. Unfortunately the fish was so deeply hooked that it bled from the gills, which is a bad sign. So I decided to take the fish anyway.

While handling it on the beach and snapping pics, I managed to drop the my beloved Aquafly flybox on the ground and in the water several times. I even managed to let my camera fall into the sand...No harm done, but still.

When finally the session was drawing to an end I wanted to rinse off sand from the box and shake off water. While shaking the box vividly, it slipped my fingers and hit a rock in shallow water.

The result was a shattered lid, bits of green plastic and loose flies all over the place!

That was the end of that box. Bad luck all around for both me and the fish.

10stille