Sargent Stripes

Work had done me in. I had an hour to put things right. Half of which would be in the car. But half would be on the bank. Which seemed OK with me.

Dead simple, roll a bunch of worms around the mill pool which only had two indolents  (four short of  a rule of six gathering) basking briefly on the weir sill and to their credit they made for dry land once I parked my sorry arse on the old tank trap concrete block.

Lots of plucks and taps, and the occasional pull round and  a string of bright bristling perch were swung to hand/netted and one rescued from the jaws of  a pike. 

This one had more than it's fair share of stripes.

Two chublets too which is a good omen for the future. Lockdown has seen the whole village swimming in the pool which is a spawning area, and I'm sure there will be a year gap but these will be good back up. Very hard to keep your hands clean when you're using worms.

Mind repaired.