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Blues For The Last Day...

John Cook

John Cook

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Well lads how did the last day go for those who could get out??? A big fat blank for me:( did anyone finish on a high note????
 
**** John I never bought 1 new piece of kit. ;-)
 
PB Chub 6lb 4oz from the Wye ..Now broke it 2 seasons in a row bring on end of next season for a 7 :D lol

Brian
 
Sat in an office then a train, so at least you lads got out on what looked a lovely day. I was taunted further my seeing lovely stretches of river while sat on the train just to rub salt into the wound. Just need to wait a few more weeks and then try for some tench.
 
After a couple of recent blanks I managed a last cast 11.14 - my best from my local river. Then came home and watched Chelsea win - great last day :)
 
Managed to fish short sessions on the Hants Avon after work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, blank, blank, blank! Never seen so little water in the river at this time of year.
 
Mark Walters said:
I'm actually looking forward to the break and doing something different
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Very sound, Mark. There will be days before too very long when I'll be over your way and further west with a fly rod or two and lots of boxes of the flies that I still can't seem to stop tying. Closer to home, I will be watching the trees come into bloom, the mallard drakes doing their annual dirty on the poor ladies, the birds, the bees, the spawning fish, the spring and summer a-comin' in...
 
Looking forward to tempting a tench , or like Paul maybe even chuck a little fluff .The comments on nature unfolding reminded me of the the song the 'big rock candy mountain ' ''Oh the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees , the soda water fountains , the lemonade springs where the bluebird sing , in the big rock candy mountains '' -Oh to live in such an idyll ...

Although we don't have a water problem at the moment up in Yorkshire , I will be hoping that the close season brings lots of rain to us all ,to replenish our cherished rivers where we live out our fishy dreams
 
PS - I forgot the Early Tomato Project. Currently have six each of the cherry tomato strains, Tumbling Tom and Gardeners' Delight, in little pots on a sunny windowsill close to my left shoulder, six inches high now and destined to go into, two in each, some 3-gallon buckets from Poundland and into the "garden" below the window some time in April, late frosts permitting.
 
Paul Boote said:
Very sound, Mark. There will be days before too very long when I'll be over your way and further west with a fly rod or two and lots of boxes of the flies that I still can't seem to stop tying. Closer to home, I will be watching the trees come into bloom, the mallard drakes doing their annual dirty on the poor ladies, the birds, the bees, the spawning fish, the spring and summer a-comin' in...
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I'm starting to get the urge to chuck some fluff myself Paul, with the river Usk a 5 minute wall from the door I'd be a fool not too
 
Fished Monday and Tuesday on the Lower Thames from early afternoon till gone midnight.Over 36 rod hours without a glimmer of a bite.Waved the white flag yesterday and had a small zed from a predator lake.Glad to see the back of this season:mad:
 
Out here in the sunny Charente there is no close season for coarse fish and the trout season opened on the 10th March. There are very few no-go areas on rivers. Apart from near to dams and a couple of private lengths once you have your Carte de Peche you are free to fish anywhere you can safely access.

Now that we have got the house mostly sorted and I have prepared two raised beds for little wife to sow her vegetables, fenced off the herb garden from marauding chickens and filled the pots situated against a warm south facing wall where rasberries, strawberries and tomatoes will hopefully flourish, all I have to do is collect our new LHD car tomorrow and the world is my whelk! A trouting I will go. The local trout rivers are all new to me so it is quite exciting.

Another difference between French and British ways of doing things is that when schoolchildren are being escorted across the road they don't have a pensioner in a yellow coat and lollipop. No. Today I stopped for crocodile of kids being chaperoned by a pretty young lady in a see-through mini skirt! Vive la difference!! :D
 
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