Botham on the Fly - Salmon

" There is this thing with Irma. We always tease her that, you know, 1 game changed your life and all that. But it is so, I mean, of course he was a great athlete for a very long time and, you know, he did all sorts of tremendous performances and, you know, huge amount of wickets and, you know, amazing number of runs, but the famous Headingley Test is the one that everybody remembers. And I mean, to most of us who sort of spend a lot of our time socially with both of them, it just seems to be like since then, everything has gone right from this one amazing day. And basically since Headingley, which is a lot nicer if you weren't aware of that, he's never, ever, ever opened his wallet since."

" Being famous for 1 game is slightly more impressive than building your whole career around 1 joke. The city laugh in pouring custard over kids' heads. With the banter aside, the day was proven to be tough going. But after waiting 2 miles in the cold water at that time, Chris was finally rewarded."

" Yehey! "

" Thank God!"

" Finally."

" It's still the strongest fish. Look at this."

" It was strong."

" Is this strong enough?"

" Yes, a bit frustrating today. I don't know why, but anyway."

" I enjoy with the fly fishing. "

" I do love salmon fishing. I've salmon fished in Alaska. I've salmon fished in Russia. I've salmon fished, you know, all in Norway a lot and in Scotland a lot. I go up every year on the Tweed and it's, you know, it's extraordinarily satisfying. It is hard though. It's hard fishing. If you're pike fishing or you're carp fishing and it's slow and whatever, you can just sort of stick the rod out and have a smoke and have a drink or whatever, you know. And you still will, you know, you can catch. If you're salmon fishing, you just have to keep casting."

" Whoa!"

" I was getting him this time. We'll get him out. But I'm not bugging around with this one."

" Yeah, we play with the current with most of the fishing."

" Yeah, it's just solid, and it's using the current, isn't it?"

" Yeah."

" You're using it well as well. You gotta experience."

" I said turn him around."

" I can't just get the extra."

" Steady on him, baby."

" Yeah! Well done!"

" Whoo! Ha!"

" That's a good fish. That's a good fish."

" Yeah."

" Well do you think?"

" Yes!"

" Things that are banking little."

" Check the [unk]."

" What up, mate?"

" You're back!"

" So, you're going back here in a minute, well."

" Yeah, he's going back."

" I mean, to me it's all about the take. It's that `cause sometimes, we're like now here. You think there is nothing here at all. There is nothing beneath the surface. It is dead as a dodo and when suddenly that thing comes out, you think, God they really were here all the time, and I really wasn't fishing that badly. It's that moment that suddenly, you know, makes it all, you know worthwhile, but also makes sense of it `cause otherwise there's very little sense otherwise in any of it."

" It's a very weird way to spend our time."

" Okay. I'll come."

" Got it."

" There we go."

" Hang on Christian and hold him. Put him back."

" Nothing yet."

" Yeah."

" Your baby."

" Got a hold of that."

" What do you have? 14 pounds, something like that?"

" Yeah."

" Alright."

" [unk]."

" Nice fish, isn't it?"

" Whoa!"

" Nice."

" Well."

" There you go. That means it's alive."

" It's really, it's pretty alive."