Today I tried it out

Well I did go fishing!!

Alarm sets me going at 4:30am, it might as well not have been on, a restless night waking every hour on the hour..anticipation?
Don't know if it was really, it was a visit to a muddy puddle near Droitwich, so a two and a half hour drive.
If there had been frost on the windscreen I may have gone back to bed!!
Anyway it was the annual Chav's(Young'uns) v's Aces( Old'uns) from a friendly website forum, I say friendly, because it's by invitation/recommendation only and a black ball comes into play. 
So none of the usual trolls!
There were 22 of us, so equal sides ,and after a very full English provided by an anonymous member donor, the draw took place for a 10am kick off.
Christ it was cold on the bank top, with a north easterly whipping it's way along the length of the "pond" for the entire match, interspersed by wind whipped hail and rain, thankfully not too much.
I've never match fished let alone sat too often on one of these places, and it showed. 
Arthur sitting next to me (a Chav) was straight in catching almost from the all in, feeding constantly to the island feature. I plodded away with my usual pond tactics and despite getting bites failed to make contact with one of those things that swims. 
Shown the way though and stored in the memory bank.
The 3o'clock shout couldn't come soon enough,but the pair of buzzard kept me amused as they mewed overhead as did the hefty head banging of the woodpecker behind me for most of the time.
Arthur weighed in 56lb of the 202lb Chav's total, the Aces weighed in just under 104lb. So the youngsters won, our top weight 20lb ,didn't come in the prizes!
So after the weigh in, a burger laid on by our benefactor,then we said our goodbyes until Octoberto practice for our next meeting at the same venue.



The Barbel Show 

The first prize in the raffle will be a pair of hand built Torrix rods built by Vic Gibson.
They are being produced in association with Bevan Tackle and are numbered and inscribed to commemorate the Society's first book launch.
So the raffle is going to be a very special one with lots of other great prizes!
But to be in with a chance of winning...... you need to be there! :)