Same old Yeni Kend.

The weather turned out rainy, just as the omnipresent and all-seeing eye of Gismeteo.ru had promised. Leaving the city at about half past five we got caught in rain that stopped just before Sangachal. A little hope sprang up that there'd be no rain, but unfortunately that hope died on the approach to Yeni Kend. All the day before, my wife and my father along with her tried to talk me out of this trip, but then again they can't understand me, we look at this hobby from different angles, them from the shore and me from behind a mask ). Generally, getting dressed in the cold isn't very pleasant, especially in the rain, even for a hardened guy. A quick wetsuit change (an eternity) and I'm in the water. I'll say right away, the water was a bit murky because of the rain, but visibility of about a meter and a half still made hunting possible. As it turned out there were very few fish; while I was getting used to it I missed a couple of pike and stirred up the silt in a very promising spot (next time I'll definitely check it out). I swam into the neighboring so-called sub-canal, drifted along with the weak current there and took two pike, medium by this canal's standards. After about 200 meters I realized I'd soon freeze if I kept drifting like that and decided to swim back. Bottom line: you can still dive, there are still fish, and rain is no obstacle for us. By the way, I ran into Nemo with a spinning rod and no wetsuit. Cold though!!!!!!!!!!