Saturday 11 February 2017

Once, twice, three times a loser.

Three days of temperatures struggling to stay above 0 and snow that wouldn't lay. Saturday was just miserable and damp. Two hours max and a trip back to the big old girl's lair. Decided to work an area just upstream first. The usual text to Lord Lite resulting in a take and a decent double was surging around when the hook pulled.
Dropped a bait in Shangri-La with a  prompt response. An even better fish, darker and leaner than the one I lost last week but looking upper doubles. At the net and disaster, hooks pulled. Made a desperate lunge,  fish in the net then gone.  Curfew aproaching and repositioned a bait further into the big slack. Must have landed right on a pike's nose as the float  never settled before heading downstream. A much more powerful fish that stayed deep and made it back to the slack three times before a sickening boil and slack line.   Even worse, knot had failed and left a set of trebles in the unseen fis
h. Never feel good after that.


2 comments:

  1. Get back down there and fish until you catch it. I'd like to abuse you for being a incompetent gumby, but as you know it's happened to me too.

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  2. Oh dear. There are some days when things don't go quite right. Always check your knots. I hope you are there now in the rain and wind while I enjoy a second cup of tea. John

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