The island I grew up and still live on has got one river; the rest are small and very small streams. Even though they are small they produce an incredible amount of sea trout.

In my early teenage days the river was way too far away and the sea a totally unsolved mystery. My friends and I roamed the moats and small lakes and that was about it, but it didn’t relieve the itch enough. In search of a cure I joined the local club and that gave access to a nice stream and to what became my personal heaven, an old gravel pit, to which a ten-mile bike ride was no problem.

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