Left Moscow on Thursday evening for a 2-day and a half spearfishing trip. But first I had to endure 2 hours of traffic jams to get home and pick the equipment up. Set out at 11.00 pm, drove for about 2 hours along a two-lange road going North, passing by lorries, - lots of adrenaline, given the quality of the road and lack of roadside lights. Arrived at the spot near the Pleshcheev lake, from which the Nerl river flows, at about 1.00 pm, had some vodka and went to sleep in a tent. It was very humid, but I was in thermal overalls and fleece and slept in a good sleeping bag - that kept me warm and dry – mosquitos were real buggers – lots of them!
Woke up next morning (Friday), went right into the motoboat - the visibility was real good for our area - 3 meters - we could see breams take off as we went up the river to the lake. Speared a few breams as well as pikes and perches before coming back to find that a retired Naval aviation general and an Orthdox priest had already arribed to join our spearfishing/camping group. Both Friday and Saturday we enjoyed great sunny weather while it rained heavily in Moscow. On Saturday morning, my pal and the priest took off early to drive a car to a dam where they got two catfish (7 kilos each) while we stayed in the camp to cook and pack. See bad-quality pics (taken by an old mobile phone camera) of the pike and big bream grilled as well as local scenery here.
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