I’d set my “new” rod pod up in the kitchen last night, complete with rod & bite alarm etc. as there was a hook and boilie on the line I stuck the hook into a cork and left it on the kitchen floor, I was generally messing about with the pod, changing different angles and just learning how best to make use of the pod when on the bank side. Then my parents turned up and I got distracted, catching up on the family news and making cups of tea and we had all settled in the lounge.
Then It happened, I got a screaming run, and for a few seconds I was stunned, the bite alarm was going mental, I could hear the bait runner going and yet still I stood there thinking “there’s no carp in my kitchen” !! So out I rushed into the kitchen and there it was, bait runner still going mental, bite alarm going ballistic then “bang” the cat flap went…then it dawned on me one of the cat’s had the bait/hook…..after a brief panic which resulted in me grabbing the line I followed it down the garden to find a very unhappy cat attached to the line, a quick inspection of the cat revealed that she had been caught around a rear leg, I soon found out the hook was NOT in the cat and managed to unravel the cats foot from the line, whilst doing this the cat managed to bite me and squirm enough for me to get jabbed by the hook !