After three days in Lithuania, some fishing and 1,103 weeks
🎣 After a long day yesterday, with just four hours of sleep the night before, I didn’t set an alarm this morning in order to go fishing.
However, I was awake at 5.00 a.m. with my body telling me to get up and go cast a line.
Although it’s a bank holiday Saturday, there were very few people around during the session and no other anglers.
There’s nothing like a drop of the wet stuff from the heavens to keep the masses away, is there?
The lake I fished has been very slow for a while now, as far as tench are concerned.
That proved to be the case today as well, although I didn’t blank, as roach saved the day.
📹 Footage from the water’s edge.
🪱 Tackle & bait: Fox Barbel Special 1.5 test curve rod and an Okuma Zeon reel.
6lb Maxima Chameleon, with a six-inch hook-length created by a small shot and 8mm bead.
Above that was a 1/2 ounce lead. Size 10 Drennan Super Specialist hook.
Single grain of corn over brown crumb and sweetcorn, twenty metres out.
🦆 Nature notes: Two noctules feeding around the car park area when I arrived.
Cormorant on the lake.
House martins (c.20) over the lake.
✍️ All these years later, I still think of Saturday as the start of my weekly blogging.
Beginning on the first Saturday of July twenty-one years ago, today on the last weekend of August 2024, that means I’ve posted something for 1,103 consecutive weeks.
The key to the blog’s longevity?
Quite simple really, because it’s always been a pleasure and never a burden.