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siggimuses saison de pêche du saumon a commmencé

it commmencé’d on friday, when siggimus & jodazzz went to elliðaár river, smack in the middle of reykjavik (hailed as the best salmon river in the world – that’s accessible by public transportation)

so, weather’s been freakishly good, and salmon freakishly scarce, so the outlook wasn’t too great when they put on the waders. temperatures south of 20°c & glaring sun meant that the pair were much likelier to catch a bad case of sunburn than anything with gills

on top of that everything seemed to go wrong; the bag of worms got left behind and locked in jodazzz’s place & before the first fly so much as got wet, it got tangled high up in a tree & refused to come back. after a few embarrassing moments, the line broke & jodazzz had to go through the whole thing again

after about an hour or so, jodazzz gets hold of a big’un, but loses it after a fight. seeing as it’s the first near-catch he has with a fly, he’s quite jubilant & seems happy

then about 3 hours after the season began, jodazzz got hold of another one. again, he screamed at siggimus to go get the fishing net (for some reason jodazzz never wants the fishing net around until the something is actually on – then he screams obscenities at siggimus and wants him to run to the car & get it). when siggimus got back, jodazzz was on his knees on the bank of the river, holding a beautiful 4-pound salmon down, trying to unhook the hook, a blissful expression on his face usually only found on the mentally challenged

he looked happier than he’s been in quite some time. way happier than 6 days, to name just one example…

after this, siggimus got to try a bit, but jodazzz was a bit impatient with clumsy siggimus & kinda wanted to demonstrate rather than watch

so, maybe it doesn’t seem like a lot, but seeing as the river only gave up 3 salmons that day, not bad at all