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AIDEN SAVAN
c o mplex than you could eve r i m ag i n e . O ve r t h e n ex t t h re e
m onths, only one fish came o u t o f th e ch a n n e l , a s t u n n i n g 2 8 l b
l i near caught by a local lad n am e d S am . S am m ove d i n to a s p o t
t h at I had vacated half an h o u r p rev i o us ly a n d w i n kl e d i t o u t
i n no time. Good angling, m a te .
Due to the lack of sighti n g s i n th e c h an n e l , I d e c id e d to c u t
d own on the number o f b a i te d s p o t s b u t a t t h e s am e t i m e
p romised myself that I wou ld s t i l l ke ep a wa tc h f u l eye o n wh a t
was going on. It was hard to i m ag i n e t h a t w i t h t h e a mo u n t o f
f i s h that were present the p rev i o us ye ar, t ha t th e re co u l d b e
s u ch a low level of activi ty 1 2 m o n th s o n .
The main focus now wa s t h e u p p e r r ive r. I d e c i d e d to
ex periment by pouring larg e b u cke ts o f p re p a re d p a rt i c l e s i n to
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