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dropped it onto a lovely clear
area tight to the bush , it went
down with firm donk I slowly
tightened down to the 2oz lead
and cranked the drag down
on my shimano power areos ,
I’d been in contact with Andy
again and he was grilling me
about why Leon had caught
and not me and what was I
doing wrong etc etc I said
about how he’d caught on
singles and I’d gone the other
way and put more bait out ,
put the phone down and with
that I had a few bleeps on the
maggot rod, again signalling a
drop back , I looked at the spot
, no birds , I stepped towards
the rod and the line twitched ,
immediately i picked it up and
must have wound 4/5 turns of
the reel before I made contact
with the fish, I was in ! At that
point the old knees started
knocking and I was trying to
control my breathing, I was
that excited and also relieved
to finally trick one, I waded
out the shallow margin to the
drop off and the fish came
straight towards under the rod
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