sam vimes
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I've said it before, I don't really get the whole single species thing. I'd get bored doing the same thing for weeks, let alone months or years.
Within the limitations of what's available locally, I'll tend to fish for barbel and chub on the river, tench and carp in stillwaters interspersed with general sessions with match type gear for anything that swims. This is usually enough to keep me interested.
However, once in a while I'll do something a little different. Yesterday was one of those days. I had a single rod and reel, landing net and bag of bait/bits. I only fished for about two hours in around four spots that I had to clamber through undergrowth to get to. I trotted worms a very short distance below a small Avon float. If I'd have fallen in, I'd struggle to get my knees wet. I may even have banged my head on the far bank. I caught a whole ten little brown trout, not one of them over a pound, most significantly less.
They looked an awful lot like the following, perhaps a little darker as upland fish often are.
While it's not something I'll repeat for a year or two, I've not had as much fun fishing in quite some time.
Within the limitations of what's available locally, I'll tend to fish for barbel and chub on the river, tench and carp in stillwaters interspersed with general sessions with match type gear for anything that swims. This is usually enough to keep me interested.
However, once in a while I'll do something a little different. Yesterday was one of those days. I had a single rod and reel, landing net and bag of bait/bits. I only fished for about two hours in around four spots that I had to clamber through undergrowth to get to. I trotted worms a very short distance below a small Avon float. If I'd have fallen in, I'd struggle to get my knees wet. I may even have banged my head on the far bank. I caught a whole ten little brown trout, not one of them over a pound, most significantly less.
They looked an awful lot like the following, perhaps a little darker as upland fish often are.
While it's not something I'll repeat for a year or two, I've not had as much fun fishing in quite some time.
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