[Read in english]Le but de la promenade était d’aller à la foire de Neuvic, pour y mater les coqs les plus beaux, et faire quelques affaires en achetant des mouches aux meilleurs fabricants. Et puis surtout, c’était l’occasion de partir en goguette, se taper de la tête de veau
The main reason was to go to Neuvic’s fair, where we could see the best roosters and buy some flies from the best tyers. But the real reason was an opportunity to have fun, have soeme « tête de veau », go dip our flies in the Dordogne and eat loads of foie-gras ! It was still chilly and the streets of neuvic were already packed with people, we had spent the evening with Charles Gaidy who told us fishing stories with fine posh anglers while eating venisons…that I had still in mouth the next morning ! Well we weren’t here for the fun, we were on a « fishing mission » ! I beleive I neverhad so many people stepping on my feet but at Neuvic’s fair, and in the narrow streets I bought a beach towel with Johnny Hallyday on it (the french Elvis…), an army trouser, and on the main square in front of the rooster’s breaders, a couple of fisfull of flies, enough to bother the trouts for a decade ! On the road to Argentat, we stopped at Oli’s, my best buddy, who ran to us arms wide opened and took us straight away to fish on a no-kill section by Tulle. After spending the rest of the afternoon in the shade he said « that’s enough of that bullshit, let’s go have diner in Argentat and stop at Guy Plas« . We arrived just before the shop closed, we didn’t even had the time to take a look at the haches from the bridge. The door closed behaind us and Guy and Oli jumped at each other’s huging like old mexicans !!!Then we had diner, just down the square, we talked of graylings, trouts, and dams. Then Oli left, waving at us as he vanished in the night. We went to our hotel room and snored ’till the next morning.