On an overcast winter's day in London, The Rod and Rev. Goldwish ventured west to break-in the reverend's tackle, recently arrived from New Zealand.
Keen to make an good impression upon our fishy hosts, while at the same time protecting his cranium from the winter chill, the reverend employed an innovative arrangement of tweed cap and woolly hat, that was met with quiet approval by the trout.
The Rod on the other hand, recently returned from his "It was THIS big" lecture tour of Norway, was sporting a furry monstrosity of a hat designed to keep the most vicious arctic blizzards at bay
Ridiculous as he already looked, The Rod then had the temerity to attempt a demonstration of the 10 o'clock, 2 o'clock method. (Not the well known timing approach for the intake of tea and biscuits, but rather a method of fine tuning one's fly casting style)
The wise among you will know that a self-respecting trout would never venture onto the hook of a tweedless vagrant, much less a know-it-all-tweedless-vagrant-with-a-rediculous-hat. So how, must we ask, could this have happened;
Well, every action has a reaction, as we shall see.
Back home The Rod attempted to cook Britains best dish*, Trout Mousse. The basic procedure is as follows: cook the trout, mix it with mousse, bake in a ramekin and turn out onto a plate. Before turning out, the dish looked positively enticing
Unfortunately, upon attempting to "turn out" the mousse onto the plate, it was the trout who had the last laugh indeed
One wonders whether, had he turned out in more appropriate attire, The Rod would have had more success with his mousse.
* as chosen by ITV on October 27 2007
