Håvard and the whale

Music and fly fishing have always been intimately linked to my eyes. The evening song to ride the flies, the song of the car to go on the Scorff …

So when the great Rolf Nylinder and Håvard Stubö take in hand the song of the edge of the water of tomorrow, I sign on! Håvard and the whale is a song about big fish. “The big one” as he calls it. And indeed, it is this fish that matters most often. The big trout. This damn trout hard to find. Hard to catch. But when it’s there, in the net, it’s an indescribable feeling.

Whether it is the big trout of the riover l’Ain, that one of the Gaves or the big “less big than the others” of french Brittany, it is always this fish that we look for. Instinctively. It is the one that gives us the most palpitations once hooked. And we often say, “it is not in the net …”.