Tuesday 16th October

Howling winds and rain to follow suit, the weather is less than ideal today, please keep checking back in a hope the weather improves.

Heres a quick review/article written by Member Steve Moffat about his recent days fishing, and new techniques he learnt. Thanks for the Email!

 "Just got back from fishing at curlies, i arrived this morning 

at 10.30am afterearning some points with my wife by going some

 DIY and bribing herwith a meal out in the evening.  The weather 

was good but a little cold so i started on pontoon 5 with agreen and yellow

 fritz pulling back with a steady retrieve for tenminutes or so , too no avail . 

 As i am new to Trout fishing with this been my first year  ,i always watch 

other anglers in the hope of learning something new and i noticed the 

angler on the next pontoon had just caught his third fish , all in the space

 of half an hour. I noticed he was winding back the line on his hand 

 with an occasion pluck, i decided to have a go and at first found it hard to

 replicate but after a few casts was into my first rainbow!! I then decided to

 move to pontoon 2 , nearer to to cafe ,been my motivation, and set up again

 using the same technique  , on the first cast i hooked into a really good fish , 

but lost it , so i decided to get a coffee and sandwich in the cafe.  On returning , 

fully refreshed from an excellent sandwich, i began again and was joined by Geoff

( bailiff)and we chatted as i attempted to look and cast like i know what i am 

talking about when Bang !!! the line went ,  tight and shot off to the middle 

of the lake ripping line off my real,as soon as i managed to get some line back

 it shot off again , diving deep and burring my floating line into the depths, this  

happened five times but with the expert guidance  of Geoff  i eventually got the 

fish to the net , a two and a half pounder , i couldn't believe such a sized fish could 

put up such a fight !! ,  my arm  is still aching and the adrenaline still pumping ,

 unfortunately i had to go for  1.00pm  ,  but cannot wait to return to try out my 

new technique .  

Kind regards Steve Moffat"

Tightlines,

Nathan Jones

nath_bailiff@hotmail.co.uk

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