Watch the online article on a fieldtest I did for Patagonia's new Guidewater Waders.
[image: Expresso]
Expresso. The artificiality of intelligence
— via Goncalo Viana
Of een piepklein schorpioentje op je rechtschouderblad...
Mannen van het net, maar geen nette mannen...
Hoofdpijn van het alleen zijn? Ga e-daten!


Step into my portables...
Up close.... 
The artist used the engraved six works of mercy to clad the iconic shape of a house.
HOUSE OF MERCY by Wim van Willegen




An evening in my 'outdoor office' flyfishing with my buddy Bert for Bream and Ide in the great Haringvliet in the Netherlands. Bert, member of the Dutch Flyfishing Team, is a power caster. Here he is holding the better part of twenty meters of flyline in the air, ready to haul on his forward cast and shoot line.
My biggest Ide (Leuciscus idus or Winde in Dutch, Aland in German, Ide mélanote en Français) on the fly to date. A very heavy fish of 55 cm caught on a #4 flyroad and a tiny silverhead and black nymph.
After such a catch you sit yourself down and just gaze around awhile, utterly satisfied. The fish swims again unharmed.
Bert showing a smaller Ide.
One has to make do on days when one is fishing alone. 'Faire tableau' is the French term used in hunting to display a day's 'harvest'. The fish displayed here swim again with no harm done whatsoever. An hour's catch in the late evening along the shores of the great Haringvliet in the Netherlands.
In the evening sun the golden bream (Abramis brama or Brasem in Dutch) does its name proud.
A barbless goldheaded, green fluorescent nymph (left one) caught these three.
The fall of 2008: brittle bills in autumnal colours present zero value
Have a safe year. With lots of interest.
The lack of a comprehensible 'back door policy' in Holland's controversial stand on the purchase of soft drugs no longer divides the majority of Dutch mayors.
Patagonia’s great Guidewater fly fishing vest does not come with in-built retractors, but with attachment points designed almost in such a way that one would suspect the designer had this famous, strong and functional retractor in mind manufactured by a brand with an unspeakable name that begins with an S.

I might swear a lot when using the S-word, but I am capable of recognizing a good product when I see one. An essential product.