Fly fishing can really make you superstitious.
While Tapani, Joona and I had One Magical Day of flyfishing, Fredrik couldn´t catch anything, and got really frustrated. And that´s not normal. Fredrik is a highly skilled flyfisherman, and more often than not, he´s the one who catches the big one.
So there was definitely some strange stuff at work. Maybe some Sami shaman threw a curse on him – that happens a lot up there. I´ve tried to tell him that it´s absolutely necessary to make a sacrifice if you want to have good fishing in these areas, but Fredrik never listened…
Thats terrible Fredrik, there is nothing worse than a fishing jinx! You made the ultimate sacrifice, a dram of Whisky to a pease the God of fishing, Izaak! I’m sure good look will follow 😀
It’s a tuff thing to sacrifice whisky during these circumstances. Well, The curse finally disappeared. I got the trout! Or did I?
Haha I’m sure the dram did it’s magic and Iazzk Walton blessed you with the Trout of your dreams fredrik, but I must see…..what happened?
In the U.S. we call this getting “skunked”
[…] on dry flies. While we others were catching trout after trout, Fredrik was hit by some sort of Curse. The fish neglected his flies and he was very unlucky this […]