I have to admit, I'v taken up fly fishing....
Not the boring, sat on a riverbank with a flask and a cane rod, casting for some old wiley trout but actually fishing for flies...with a big net on a long pole...much more fun and I'm getting pretty dexterous at it too!
The reason behind it is to keep the surface clear of creepy crawlees and ensuring the pool keeps looking at its best and sparklingly crystal clear. Some of the lucky bugs fished out are still alive and manage to get liberated but most meet a watery end in minutes and then float about looking unsightly.
That's where I step in...
You also won't believe the amount of insect life that finds its way through and into the filters. Every day I am faced with a mass carnage of insect casualties that have nipped in for a swift drink and not been able to escape, or accidentally flown too close and underestimated the viscosity of the surface. Some wriggle about for a while before getting filtrated to the infinity end and then over the lip into oblivion, ending up in the filtration system's dark underworld.
To date there has been an amazing variety of flies, wasps, bees, ants, butterflies and moths, even a rhinoceros beetle and the occasional unlucky praying- mantis. Every morning it's a surprise as to what gets found in the belly of the aqua-vac or inside the filters of the pumps along with a few leaves. Not had a scorpion yet but Iv seen a couple around.
Tight Lines Chaps...
Oh yeah, here's another small thing I spotted on the way back from Florence today...cool eh?
Blink 182 bring you this track from the archives and a raucous blast from 1999, a great pop song from the album 'Enema of the State'.
Sent wi' th'ipad
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