Graham Braithwaite
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No-one on here will remember me, but a few of you - most memorably Baz - helped me with quite a few (fishing) problems that I was having early last year, but I've not really been back since then.
I doubt whether many of you will have heard of Yeadon Tarn near Leeds (it's right smack bang next to the airport, so you can watch jets and ducks and geese and swans flying all at the same time!), but I've recently started fishing again and, despite having my line broken and, ultimately, blanking yesterday, I pushed myself back in the fary this morning (with a 4.00am start!), and am delighted to say that I caught and 8-9lb Mirror on the Method, and feel like a Millionaire!
I think I've had a mental block for so long that it would always be 'other people' who would catch the biggish stuff, and whilst an 8lb Carp is hardly a record breaker, it nontheless represents real progress for me in a sport that I've always loved, even if I don't get by the water nearly half as much as I'd really like.
I know it's a pretty unremarkable tale that I've logged on to tell, but I do intend to get on here a whole lot more often now, and I always reccommend the site to anyone that I hapen to chat to.
One last thing; Do any of you listen to 'Fisherman's Blues' at the weekends on talkSPORT and, if so, what do you all think to it? I've never ever heard this site being mentioned, and would have thought it would have happened by now. I actually like the show a lot, but get a bit lost amidst all the name checks and the very, very (to me) technical stuff that I don't quite understand. Still, I find it a really good friendly listen. How about you?..
Tight lines!,
Graham
I doubt whether many of you will have heard of Yeadon Tarn near Leeds (it's right smack bang next to the airport, so you can watch jets and ducks and geese and swans flying all at the same time!), but I've recently started fishing again and, despite having my line broken and, ultimately, blanking yesterday, I pushed myself back in the fary this morning (with a 4.00am start!), and am delighted to say that I caught and 8-9lb Mirror on the Method, and feel like a Millionaire!
I think I've had a mental block for so long that it would always be 'other people' who would catch the biggish stuff, and whilst an 8lb Carp is hardly a record breaker, it nontheless represents real progress for me in a sport that I've always loved, even if I don't get by the water nearly half as much as I'd really like.
I know it's a pretty unremarkable tale that I've logged on to tell, but I do intend to get on here a whole lot more often now, and I always reccommend the site to anyone that I hapen to chat to.
One last thing; Do any of you listen to 'Fisherman's Blues' at the weekends on talkSPORT and, if so, what do you all think to it? I've never ever heard this site being mentioned, and would have thought it would have happened by now. I actually like the show a lot, but get a bit lost amidst all the name checks and the very, very (to me) technical stuff that I don't quite understand. Still, I find it a really good friendly listen. How about you?..
Tight lines!,
Graham