Who

Who is the idiot guy attempting this challenge?

Let me introduce myself, the name is Jason Walker or Mental [Mental as in wicked/great/rad/etc not mental in the head...] I’m 39 and have been fishing for over 30 years, starting out fishing the rivers of the East Midlands in the UK with my Granddad, and then fishing all over the midlands in rivers and lakes hunting all sorts of coarse fish. I fished a bit in the sea too in the UK, and then spent a few years hunting large Carp. In 1995 I ended up here in New Zealand where I spent a bit of time fishing for Koi Carp in Auckland lakes. Then a mate turned up one day with a little 12 foot fibreglass dingy with an eight horse hanging off the back, this got me into sea fishing in NZ, that little dingy was quickly followed by a succession of successively bigger boats so we could go further and wider…

Then came the dreaded petrol price hikes, this made fishing expensive, like crazy expensive, that and the fact that even though I owned my boat with a mate, 90% of the time I went out I’d have to go on my own, and the shine of beach launching of a boat on your own very quickly wore off, so…

Kayak fishing… Hmm I could give that a go… Right sell my half of the boat to my mate, give half the proceeds to my wife for a new kitchen and I get the rest to set myself up for kayak fishing, a kayak, some accessories, some fancy electronics, and some new tackle because of course all that boat gear I’ve filled my garage with will never work on the kayak, haha….

So that’s me, been fishing for ages, caught all sorts of fish, in all sorts of environments, but like my old school reports “could do better” – so how about trying fishing for thirty days, see if that improves anything..?