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School-boy error

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Leon Dodd

Senior Member
Hi all,
went to the swale last night, made the 45 minute journey only to find I'd left my landing net hanging up to dry in the garage:(. made the long trip home. I don't think I was the best company on arrival:mad:
 
Thats nowt Leon . I went once and forgot the rod , thought it was in the holdall , nope . Luckily I wasn't too far from home , doh !
 
Thats nothing Leon..........I went once got there thought id been and came back home........
 
Hi fellas i once left my sleeping bag at home whlst on an overnighter miles from home, a very uncomfortable night was endured, and i vowed never to do that again - and i blanked!!
 
i once got to the river at 4am and grabbed the best swim, barbel were everywhere in the swim, happy i was until i found out i had forgotten my bait, so i dashed home, back a hour later to find the camo brigade bivvied up in my swim, gutted.
 
Fished the river Tees last week in what I considered a banker swim. 5 hours and one small chub later reality set in :p

ps tried to type this post after a bottle of Rioja :p
 
Leon Dodd said:
Hi all,
went to the swale last night, made the 45 minute journey only to find I'd left my landing net hanging up to dry in the garage:(. made the long trip home. I don't think I was the best company on arrival:mad:
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One thing can always be guaranteed if you have to return home to fetch the landing net.... you won't be needing it!
 
Years ago the missus dropped me off for an overnighter at a local carp lake.
Feeling tired, i decided to have a snooze on the bedchair before setting up the rods etc.
She came back in the morning to find me still asleep........i never even set the rods up!!

Steve
 
Expensive school boy loss of temper in the dim and distant past was when i lost a good carp at the net was to throw the offending rod down in temper. Now this wouldn't be to bad but i ended up throwing it down on my other two rods with such force that all three custom built harrisons ended up becoming 3 piece rods instead of 2 piece rods. Needless to say a few expletives were spoken that morning.:D:D:D
 
A few years ago I went to India to fish for mahseer with a good friend of mine.

I was quite taken aback on the first morning to hear a huge shout of angst from his tent as he tried to put together the top joint of one rod to the bottom section of another, finally realising that the other sections were actually 5,000miles away in England.

Thats a schoolboy error!!

In fact there are many more, but I'll not embarrass him any further as he's a contributor to the forum....
 
In my days of maggot drowning for anything silver I left my bait in the fridge on numerous occasions. I often didn't realise until all set up on the bank. It was either a case of digging around for some worms or asking the wife to bring them if not too far from home.

Worse thing I ever did was dropping the key to my Mk1 Escort in a swollen River Hull at Beverley as I was packing up on a winter's afternoon. Luckily I had a spare at home which my wife brought to me.
 
Whilst fishing a low river Dewent this summer I managed to get below a large snag which held elusive Derwent Barbel and I scrammbled to 'perch' on some alder roots which were usually submerged at normal summer level.
Just before Dark, with fish bubbling a slight tap on the rod occured.I thought the isoblob would be better positioned slightly to the left,so with one arm holding onto the tree and the other one moving the bankstick and rod rest I just had to lean out a couple more inches for the perfect location.
Next thing I was discovering that even in July these Northern rivers can be cool to say the least.
Fish dissappeared and after a hour sitting there like a sad knome dripping wet I went home to.Problem was when I got back to the car the key remote was wet through and would not work so I had to open the door with the key and as I started the car the alarm went off and I no matter how many times I pressed the remote it would not stop.
I had no option but to keep going with lights and horns,and as I had stipped off my wet gear down to the boxer shorts all I could think of was how could I explain this to the local bobby.
Ken:eek:
 
Went on a overnighter this season and forgot my 8 year old lads bedchair.Couldnt help but feel sorry for the poor lad crumpled up on the lumpy hard floor whilst I was lay there on my new 'wide boy ultimate comfort' bedchair .
 
Was fishing on my local canal a few years back with my cousin. We had just hooked into a Bream when we realised we had forgotten the landing net! Needless to say we improvised with a tesco bag! Fish was a 5lb,er
 
I went on a night session with my brother, he has no barrow so we chuck all the gear on mine, did the 40mile trip and got the gear out of the van only to find.........i brought the barrow and left the bleeping wheel and handles at home:rolleyes::mad::rolleyes:
Three long trips later and it was nearly dark before we got setup:rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
I was out barbel fishing the other week and only went and forgot both my priest and my bass bag!
Ended up scratching around for a suitable heavy stick, which was just as well, as I did quite well, and luckily I had a Waitrose carrier bag with me, though the handles did well not to break!
They didn't taste any better:)
 
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