I picked up stikflote from derby and headed of towards our destination ,down the country's hiways and byways .it was a pleasent journey ,well pleasent enough having to put up with my speed camera detector telling me too slow down every 5 min and the persuing arguments which followed poor keith (stikflote) must of thought i was mental ,talking back to a inanimate object !! and he's probably right.
we arrived in time for brekkies ,a loverly full english very nice ,we made the draw ,I got a end peg !!! .walked the whole of the 100yds or so to the swim .greated upon my arrival by the robust Mr Banks
who was collecting the peg fee's at a rate of 50 maggots per hour .I then carefully out my equipment all nicely stacket neatly and too hand
everything had a place ,i fixed in the keepnet (netto £7.99) and my rodrest i went to put up my collapsable landing net andpromptly broke it ,Mrs banks wasn't happy with my language
i set up a ledger outfit ,a 2oz bomb on a running ledger to 16's hook and single red maggot .
next i set up a float rod and my okuma kennet ,fished with one of my own avons and again a 16's hook-2-nylon (same packet as my other set up) with maggot as bait .
on the all in i chucked a couple of hands full of maggots in and began on the float ,if it wasn't for the awkward wind i would of casted to the far side but settled for mid river ,letting it trot through everso lightly held back with a dozen or so maggots every other cast .stuck too it for a hour with onlya few missed bites for my effort .
