{"id":69374,"date":"2025-04-18T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lemouching.com\/old\/2025\/04\/catch-release-in-saint-martin-darrossa\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:43:09","slug":"catch-release-in-saint-martin-darrossa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemouching.com\/en\/2025\/04\/catch-release-in-saint-martin-darrossa\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch & Release in Saint Martin d’Arrossa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m off this afternoon to the banks of the Nive, near Saint Martin d’Arrossa, in the French Basque Country.
\nI have friends there whose house borders the river. As is my habit, I’ll be wearing my beautiful toreador costume, an exact replica of the one Luis Mariano wore when he performed at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet<\/em> in Paris in 1959, and which brings me good luck when I fish in the Basque country. The locals are often astonished to see me dressed like this in the middle of the river, but I don’t pay any attention to their quips. I like to dress up for fishing, because that’s who I am, and I fish better that way.
\nAfter fishing, I’ll eat some nice Cambo sausages cooked gently with Espelette chillie. Chillies have always had this delicious effect on me, making me jump up and down on tables and sing out loud beautiful songs from the region: \u201cBidassoa<\/em>\u201d or \u201cAgur Agur<\/em>\u201d for example, sometimes my repertoire goes beyond the borders of the region and I sing \u201cLa belle de Cadix<\/em>\u201d, which is always a great success.
\nOn one occasion, dressed in my operetta costume and fishing the Nive de Ba\u00efgorri, I even let out Tarzan’s famous cry when I caught a magnificent 45 cm fario trout, which echoed from valley to valley.
\nThe next morning, I read in the press that Franska<\/em> the bear, no doubt panicking for some unknown reason, had been crushed on the expressway not far from Pau.<\/p>\n

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