Got to sharpley at 7AM
on Sunday morning, Had forgot all about the Jack Charlton day being on so the Albert and Alice was out of bounds, Anyhow, Weather was mint warm and sunny already, Fished the Doxy for a bit, nowt doing so headed up to the Hangmans managed to land one on a diawl Bach and missed a few more, Drink time, headed to the lodge and had a cuppa and a bit of a chat.
This is the good / bad bit, after that we headed onto the doxy again and decided to fish the windy end, was quite hard casting into it but was managing to get a line out so persevered, was just looking into the margins when I got my eyes on this fish which looked more like a swimming pig, must have been in the high teens weight wise, it kept swimming along in front of me and in a triangle away from the bank and back past me, just carried on slowly fishing a couple of buzzers when I got a slow steady take, lifted the rod into it and wallop it was the "pig", expected all hell to break loose but it just held down in the water for a bit, I gave it a bit of a pull and it started to come up then it just took off, all the loose line I had at my feet went then all my fly line off the reel into the backing, it was off down the lake like a cross channel ferry! my backing was flying off by now and before I realised it was gone
as soon as it came to the spool it just pinged off, gutted wasnt the word, Its a good job there was a family fishing on the worming lake or I would have still been swearing yet.
Took me a few minutes to compose myself and wind my backing and line back onto the spool, put a simular buzzer on but in olive rather than black cast into the same area, a few seconds later wallop another slow steady take, this one hit the surface straight away and whist not as big as the "pig" was a good doubler then it really started it just took me where it wanted to go and before long snapped me off again, I was to take away by now
Of course I had no more simular buzzers but think if I did I would have left them in the box anyways,
Went home at dinner time to watch England get stuffed
Went back in the evening and It was windy and not a lot of fish moving around, only managed one in the evening again,
All in all a bad day
on Sunday morning, Had forgot all about the Jack Charlton day being on so the Albert and Alice was out of bounds, Anyhow, Weather was mint warm and sunny already, Fished the Doxy for a bit, nowt doing so headed up to the Hangmans managed to land one on a diawl Bach and missed a few more, Drink time, headed to the lodge and had a cuppa and a bit of a chat.This is the good / bad bit, after that we headed onto the doxy again and decided to fish the windy end, was quite hard casting into it but was managing to get a line out so persevered, was just looking into the margins when I got my eyes on this fish which looked more like a swimming pig, must have been in the high teens weight wise, it kept swimming along in front of me and in a triangle away from the bank and back past me, just carried on slowly fishing a couple of buzzers when I got a slow steady take, lifted the rod into it and wallop it was the "pig", expected all hell to break loose but it just held down in the water for a bit, I gave it a bit of a pull and it started to come up then it just took off, all the loose line I had at my feet went then all my fly line off the reel into the backing, it was off down the lake like a cross channel ferry! my backing was flying off by now and before I realised it was gone
as soon as it came to the spool it just pinged off, gutted wasnt the word, Its a good job there was a family fishing on the worming lake or I would have still been swearing yet.Took me a few minutes to compose myself and wind my backing and line back onto the spool, put a simular buzzer on but in olive rather than black cast into the same area, a few seconds later wallop another slow steady take, this one hit the surface straight away and whist not as big as the "pig" was a good doubler then it really started it just took me where it wanted to go and before long snapped me off again, I was to take away by now
Of course I had no more simular buzzers but think if I did I would have left them in the box anyways,
Went home at dinner time to watch England get stuffed
Went back in the evening and It was windy and not a lot of fish moving around, only managed one in the evening again,
All in all a bad day
