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Terrible First Day

Kevin Pilgrim

Kevin Pilgrim

Senior Member
I went to fish a new section of the Lea today, a long walk from the car park only to find that the combination on my Club Card would not open the lock.

After 30 minutes of fumbling with the lock i decided to go to the Fishers Green stretch where i`ve been a member for a number of seasons.

This season on my Club Card the combination for the lock only has three digits every year for as far back as i can remember the combination always had four digits.

Guess what, i arrive at The Green only to find the lock still has four digits.
Two different parts of the Lea, two different Clubs and no access to either venue.

130 mile round trip, gutted or what.

How did your first day go ?
 
Thats very sad Kev, hopefully, things can only get better. My first trip out won,t be till next week, fingers crossed i don,t forget anything. :)
 
be nice to catch up this season

unlucky kev that really is a terrible opening day not many will top that:(

I didn't go out but will be fishing with the seal today by all accounts:eek:
 
Kevin Pilgrim said:
This season on my Club Card the combination for the lock only has three digits every year for as far back as i can remember the combination always had four digits.

How did your first day go ?
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That's a cr#p first day Kevin, mine was worse (I think) as I spent the day in the garden finishing my fencing and re-planting shrubs and stuff (just hate gardening); family round cos it's fathers day (what a daft day) and lots of time on the computer sorting logins and other stuff for folk.

The 4th digit is on the accompanying letter :)

paul4
 
Hi Paul, club cards were sent out before 1st April you would think someone would have noticed the mistake before now.
Managed to get on the Green for the evening yesterday ( first of many blanks no doubt ) my fishing pal had a 14lb 12oz that i tried to knock off twice when landing her for him.
 
I managed to shut my rod in the boot damaging two rings in the process. I then went fishless so not the best start.
 
I rarely post fishing reports on here but seeing as KP had a poor start, here is my little escapade (you can snigger in the back row!)

Suffice to say the wettest start to a season as I dived into the Middle Trent after my Trakker Pioneer at 8:30pm on Saturday night as the wind took it.
Cows took my attention (15 of the little beauties attempting to eat my car) and I did not get a peg in before turning to see the noise!

This was followed by the same cows chewing on my rods (one displaced butt ring) as I parked the car in a safe place
...a double figure Bream and lost carp due to hook pull rounded off the perfect day!
At least Sunday morning was warm enough that I could return home in my Trent washed clothes!
 
Darryl Davis said:
I rarely post fishing reports on here but seeing as KP had a poor start, here is my little escapade (you can snigger in the back row!)

Suffice to say the wettest start to a season as I dived into the Middle Trent after my Trakker Pioneer at 8:30pm on Saturday night as the wind took it.
Cows took my attention (15 of the little beauties attempting to eat my car) and I did not get a peg in before turning to see the noise!

This was followed by the same cows chewing on my rods (one displaced butt ring) as I parked the car in a safe place
...a double figure Bream and lost carp due to hook pull rounded off the perfect day!
At least Sunday morning was warm enough that I could return home in my Trent washed clothes!
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I`m feeling better already. :)
 
Darryl Davis said:
I rarely post fishing reports on here but seeing as KP had a poor start, here is my little escapade (you can snigger in the back row!)

Suffice to say the wettest start to a season as I dived into the Middle Trent after my Trakker Pioneer at 8:30pm on Saturday night as the wind took it.
Cows took my attention (15 of the little beauties attempting to eat my car) and I did not get a peg in before turning to see the noise!

This was followed by the same cows chewing on my rods (one displaced butt ring) as I parked the car in a safe place
...a double figure Bream and lost carp due to hook pull rounded off the perfect day!
At least Sunday morning was warm enough that I could return home in my Trent washed clothes!
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You should have just told everyone you had a double and left it at that Darryl :D:D:D

Cheers, Dave.
 
This is not about a bad first day,but will make anyone who had a bad day feel better. Every year i go to India Mahseer fishing i was booked this January. In late November the company i go with phoned and said 'the fishing on the Cauvery river has been banned'. A week went by and they phoned saying they had an alternative,Northern India,so we booked. Eight anglers got on the BA flight at Heathrow to Dehli on jan 20th, At 2045, the next 7 hours were spent driving the plane around Heathrow Airport in a little bit of snow,at 0400 they kicked us off, through customs again,to a hotel.We flew out the next day, we had missed the connecting train so had to drive across India for 20 hours.Arriving at the river you get rafts to the camp on the opposite bank,4 anglers luggage and cameras got soaked/ruined.The weather/river was Freezing,down to 2 degrees when we normally get 80 plus degrees in the south. Eight anglers fished dawn/dusk for 5.5 days, only 1 small Mahseer was caught but Hadrian (the doctor) caught 2 human bodies,(repeat capture).Sadly i saw the first capture,and it was not nice.
 
Blimey Mark, that's rum deal if ever I heard one. It certainly puts a blank into perspective. I heard about the mahseer ban; something about a blanket ban on game hunting, and angling is included?
 
Here is mine. Never caught anything that was bad enough.

However half way through the day whilst I was putting some bait onto the hair rig, my 8 year old son stepped on my line, this pulled the line from my hand and took the size 8 barbed hook straight down into my middle finger. It had buried itself down to the bend of the hook. Tried pulling it the same way it and gone in, nope there was no way it was coming out with the barb, unless I wanted to rip my finger.

Lucky I had my phone and googled how to take out a barbed hook :), options was to try and push down on hook towards finger and then pull out, could not get that to work. Other option was to push the hook all the way through the finger until the end and barb came out. Tried this and after a while managed to get the hook and barb all the way out, then managed to crimp the barb and pull it back out the same way it had gone in.
 
I know the feeling. Did you not have any cutters with you? Its much easier to cut the hook below the barb rather than squash the barb and pull back?
 
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