Saturday May 4, on the banks of the Gardon d’Alès, the second edition of the “nature & rurality day”, initiated by the Gard fishing federation, supported by the town, was a hit.
This is surely the most “extraordinary” story of a first day of fishing. Saturday May 4, Giulia Virzi, rod in hand, enjoys repeating casts of a pink lure.
Under the gaze of his mother, Anna, an Italian teacher in Salindres, who for a long time told him how, in her youth, she had fined experienced fishermen from the Ustica golf course.
“I loved fishing and the fish came to me”smiled the one who was nicknamed, throughout the island, “professore pescatore”.
Midi Libre – STEPHANE BARBIER
And, like a legacy, this passion has been passed on. Like the one shared, a little further on the bank, by Julien Sanmiquel, providing a fishing demonstration equipped with Smith equipment. A nurse by profession, in Mende (48) it is at the water’s edge that he introduces new techniques to Nicolas Charaix, Randy Jordan and their sons.
The speech becomes more technical when the spectacle of the dog Padie swimming to the aid of a skateboarder feigning illness attracts people to the banks of the Gardon. Christophe Eck, aquatic rescue dog handler and owner of this 5-year-old Newfoundland, never tires of talking about the qualities of this mastiff. Arousing astonishment when he reveals that this dog has… webbed paws.
Midi Libre – STEPHANE BARBIER
On the top of the banks of the Gardon, the Ribautain farmer Louis Julian, film in support, evokes the unfortunately little-known link between the earth and the climate, Adéline Constance evokes the valorization of a castanéiculture founding a cosmetic without water and initiating the creation of his business The accent while Jean-Marie David, former restaurateur in Aramon, remembers the miracle of these shad fisheries on a now polluted Rhône…
Midi Libre – STEPHANE BARBIER
Along the way, reflections are initiated, knowledge is enriched and, like rivers ending at the sea, fuels awareness of a fragile element. To preserve.
