I was supposed to fish a match this morning, and against my better judgement I went. The weather, well we had all seasons in one day. One minute it is almost black overhead. Then we had snow, sleet and rain. The wind was gusting to gale force then dropping right off, only to return a few moments later trying to whip the pole around behind me.
I remained dry sitting under my brolley which was clamped to my pole seat.
Guess what, I didn't bloody care as I was catching fish like no tomorrow on strawberry flavour jelly pellets. These were fished over a bed of ground bait containing betaine, hemp and some crushed corn.
I never caught anything really big, small mirrors and commons to about 1lb and some roach.
Now there comes a time when even I need a leak and the weather conditions didn't really help. With pole shipped back, I left to stand behind my seat to relieve myself.
Whilst in mid-flow the wind caught the umbrella and the whole caboodle ended up in the lake.
One of my top kits got smashed in the process and trying to retrieve the seat and umbrella another section got brokted.
The 4 drawers on the seat all opened and their contents went in the water. With this lot went my, mobile phone, flask and other bits and bobs.
Tomorrow I shall sort out my pole seat and see if I can rescue any of my pole that has been more or less smashed, which is what I am going to do now myself.
On a positive note, if I had continued catching at the rate I was, I may have one the match.
Second, all of the float-rigs that I re-tied the other day stayed in my seat as that section was locked.
Where's the corkscrew?
I remained dry sitting under my brolley which was clamped to my pole seat.
Guess what, I didn't bloody care as I was catching fish like no tomorrow on strawberry flavour jelly pellets. These were fished over a bed of ground bait containing betaine, hemp and some crushed corn.
I never caught anything really big, small mirrors and commons to about 1lb and some roach.
Now there comes a time when even I need a leak and the weather conditions didn't really help. With pole shipped back, I left to stand behind my seat to relieve myself.
Whilst in mid-flow the wind caught the umbrella and the whole caboodle ended up in the lake.
One of my top kits got smashed in the process and trying to retrieve the seat and umbrella another section got brokted.
The 4 drawers on the seat all opened and their contents went in the water. With this lot went my, mobile phone, flask and other bits and bobs.
Tomorrow I shall sort out my pole seat and see if I can rescue any of my pole that has been more or less smashed, which is what I am going to do now myself.
On a positive note, if I had continued catching at the rate I was, I may have one the match.
Second, all of the float-rigs that I re-tied the other day stayed in my seat as that section was locked.
Where's the corkscrew?