Social distancing measures have meant buying tackle and bait in person has become a different experience. No more mooching around, with a definite purchasing intention but the shopkeepers eyes burning into your neck willing you to add several unplanned and probably more costly items to your sweaty palms or basket. It's now 2 metre queuing, orders at door then in to pay by card and out again. I think my bank balance will be healthier. And no loutish boors clogging up the space dispensing largesse and loud opinion about F1 's, Matey whose been bivvied on the Point for 3 months and making Farage a national treasure.
Anyway, managed to get a bag of national treasure for myself. The Source of Everything. And Spicy Sausage pellets, equally seminal.
Following our first family rode out since lockdown along the North Norfolkcestershire coast, me in the navigators seat and the Commander in Chief behind the wheel I fired up Mark 2 for an al fresco feast. Blooming lovely it was too.
Despite finding the Source of Everything the humble golden grains would be the chosen bait for my post feast foray, fished under a waggler over hemp. Steady rather than spectacular fishing but very pleasant with mostly roach and the odd skimmer or hybrid on most casts.
I must remember to get some more B560's next time I head for Angler's Corner, #12's are just right for 2 grains of corn with their wider gape and easier to unhook without a disgorger than the finer B520's which I'd use for caster or maggot in #14 or #16. They are not tackle shy on here.
Only once did I need to flick off the anti reverse as the just set clutch came into play, plodding rather than surging and a lovely pre-spawn bumpy male bream took the Korum's to just under 6lb.
Wine o'clock called so it was back to BureBoi Villas to lay out the wet net, mat and sling and try something other than our usual LIDL 3.99 Cimarosa Shiraz. Nice label. Nuf said.
Not a fan of shell-on peanuts though.Too much phaff for too little reward. And too much chaff.
Just what's needed at this time, steady and pleasant.
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