Pete's Weighty ( Fly Fishing ) Words

Part of a good fishing trip is having the right music to go with the travelling part. If it is a long trip I’ll have a good selection of discs carefully selected and put together by my daughter Charlie. At 16 she is fully aware of what is hot and what isn’t and puts together an appropriate compilation. I don’t remember at her age having such eclectic tastes and I am sure your finger leaves the musical pulse when you get to 30 and it is only a short time before “Dad dancing” starts.

She manages to make the Beach Boys sit comfortably with The Chili Peppers via Soft Cell. I must admit there was a time last year when Mark and I were off bassing and drove through the middle of Barnstaple with “tainted love” blaring out of the CD player and open windows…strange lot us fly fishers!

On the outwood part of the trip I prefer faster music and it might be The Foo Fighters (a big SFFS team fave) or The Who but on the way back when there is plenty of conversation about the day something a little more mellow is required. A fave this year that has gone down well with clients is Sea Sick Steve. He churns out some high quality blues. I first saw him on Jools Holland’s Later program on BBC2. He stole the show and if you are unsure about whether to commit to an album of blues he appears on the Later Live album so that you can get a flavour.

Two albums that are a permanent feature are from the Live Lounge series. The cool thing about these are that you have well known acts covering other peoples songs. You have artists like Lemar covering The Darkness (it works!) or Keane covering U2. It is great to see other bands paying the ultimate compliment by copying another artists work. I know I for one would be take it as a compliment that my work were taken seriously and being acknowledged.

Bob has left for sunnier shores for a couple of weeks so I am at the helm for a bit whilst juggling tuition/guiding in between. It is fun being so busy but where does the day go to?

I left the office and popped down to the lake to let someone who had popped in cast a couple of rods and was surprised to see Mark teaching in a T shirt. I know they breed em tough in the midlands but perhaps the weather is on the turn. He took a camera and I hope he’ll have a shot or two.

I am on the river tomorrow with Paul and am really looking forward to it!