Is it a week already?

Fishing


Another chance to fish the pond today, I was intending to do a late afternoon session, but decided it was better to remove myself from the house!!

Packed the kit in the front seat of the car, the boot was full with dead shrubbery, and the back seat had one of my water butts,ruptured during the freeze, and also filled with the shrubbery.
So a call into the council tip at Louth on my way to North Somercotes and the pond, was the first priority.

Job done and on my way to Pigeon Cottage,      http://www.pigeoncottage.co.uk/da/46406
in my hunt for the elusive "BIG" perch and roach.
arrived at about 11am my baits red maggots, worms and prawns.
The last time I fished here the successful bait was prawns, the worms didn't get a nudge.
Set myself up in a swim with a reed bed to the right side reaching two thirds of the way to the island a north west wind in my face.
Decided to fish prawn within a rod length, in about 7 foot of water, and set up about a foot overdepth.
Nothing for the first hour after droppering about a pint of red maggots and some chopped lobs,so I switched to lobworm head and immediately was into a tench of about 2lb quickly followed by a mirror carp of about 4lb, similar in colouration to the last visits fish.
Maintained a constant stream of droppered baits throughout the day, switching between prawn and worm regularly, and ended up with 10 tench of no more than 2lb a piece and 3 more mirror carp, that did in fact mirror each other in colouration, the biggest being 7lb. A bonus rudd of about a pound took some liking to a lob tail.
All in all a fun day's fishing, but that north westerly became chillier and chillier as the afternoon wore on so it was good to get back to the motor and back to the chilled house!





Duz tha speak Yorkshire ? (two)

A Yorkshireman’s wife dies and the widower decides that her headstone should have the words 
"She were thine" engraved on it.
He calls the stone mason, who assures him that the headstone will be ready a few days after the funeral.
True to his word the stone mason calls the widower to say that the headstone is ready and would he like to come and have a look.
When the widower gets there he takes one look at the stone to see that it's been engraved
 "She were thin".
He explodes: "'ells bells man, you've left the bloody "e" out, you've left the blood y"e" out!" 
The stone mason apologises profusely and assures the poor widower that it will be rectified the following morning.
Next day comes and the widower returns to the stone mason: "There you go sir, I've put the "e" on the stone for you".
The widower looks at the stone and then reads out aloud: "E, she were thin". 


Bloke from Barnsley with piles asks chemist "Nah then lad, does tha sell arse cream?"
Chemist replies "Aye, Magnum or Cornetto"?




Talking of Yorkshiremen


Well short ones........seems to be going out of his way to try and affect the Society's business!


My IP address by the way is 192.168.1.*** !!