Well after a Saturday of 30 degrees ( you read that right) in October and the promise of summer skies again it was off to Longford for a day where i quote ' 50lb easy and carp / tench mixed bag'.....
The two musketeers ( missing The Shropshire Dangler) arrived after a few scratches of the heads regarding directions, but also secretly relishing the new ' free' contact offered by Mr Jobs apple revolution as we travelled down the A38....
The Ostrich Pub a future visit is needed.....
Points to remember at this stage 1. Its dark until 6.45am.....2. its not normally like this in October...3. Derek had two pints of maggots .....
We jumped on the first lake as we arrived as Derek had read that in 1982 UB40 had first had the idea for ' Rat in my Kitchen' and apparently someone caught something that day....how profound it was to be.
We chose pegs and a few fish played the game by flapping as we walked down the lake. It was all going very well..sun was rising and shorts were a good choice.
Within an hour and with one fish between us.....( Derek being on maggot for 58 mins of that)...the confidence began to erode a little.....the usual " lake view" " butterley" " Makins" all had a claim but instead i watched a Rat swim over to my swim on its way to the Local Rat Boot Sale....
To be fair i had a carp or three and a few tench but nothing over 1.5lb and we started to rumble the day.....
I walked up to the Cafe and discovered two alluring sites...my large bacon and egg cob and the girl serving it....There was more to Longford than our pegs with almost all other anglers up on the bigger lakes .....oh well...
It finished very close....maybe 3lb each.....manic .....
we'll probably be back but not until we've forget how bad it is......
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