Back out with the ‘family angling heirloom’
I often say to my wife that, “I’m popping out for an hour or so”, and return home several hours later. Well, it’s all about how you interpret ‘or so’, I guess, but, after 38 years of marriage she is well used to my angling time-keeping by now.
The reason for my intended short session on this occasion, was to fish once again with the ‘family angling heirloom’, as I recently described it. The three-foot rod that both my youngest daughter and grandson have used with positive effect over the years.
On a small pool, I flicked the float just over six-feet from the bank in fairly shallow water and trickled maggots into the swim in accordance with the action, which was minimal. Before I landed the first fish (a perch) though, I did have a couple of flickers on the float that didn’t develop.
Regardless of the total number (1 perch and 2 roach) of fish caught though, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and, as I so often say, that’s what angling is all about. Isn’t it? Plus, as I fish a lot anyway, sessions such as this are never a waste of valuable angling time.
On the nature front, I saw a pair of calling ravens in flight, then heard them in woodland for some time afterwards. I saw one grey wagtail, in undulating flight across the pool and five kingfisher sightings, most likely to be the same bird.
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