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c o mmon on the first n ight . S o
L 0 30 and miller mix it was.
I t got silly at times f r o m
m emory in the June 54 f i sh
w ere caught from king y we
h a d 48 of them between u s i t
r e ally was that good. Ho we v e r
s t i ll no Benson. I felt tha t i t
w ould only be a matter of t i m e
t h ough I fished that spo t r i g h t
b e n e a t h a sm a l l o v e r h a n g i n g
b r a n c h . I q ui c k l y r a n a r o u n d
t o m y s w i m an d g r a b b e d a r o d
and my baiting spoon and a
small bucket of bait I baited
t h e s p o t wi t h t h e s p o o n so n o t
to disturb them and placed
t h e r i g g i n g pe r f e c t l y. I f i l l e d
m y p o c k e ts w i t h a c o u p l e o f
handfuls of Boily and climbed
t h rough until august an d f e l t
I s hould have had her by n o w.
S i nce winter I had an othe r 4 3
f i s h from that spot. On o n e o f
my last sessions It was forecast
t o be one of the ho ttest d a y s
t h at year after the mo rn i n g
b i te time period had passe d, I
d e cided to have a reel in a n d
h a ve a good look arou n d . I
f i n ally found most of th e f i s h
i n the snags on the lo ck b a n k
a l l hidden in the sh ade f r o m
t h e blazing sun incl ud i n g
B e nson. I watched them f o r a
w hile, and it became evid e n t
t h at every time the y l eft t h e
s a nctuary of the snags t h e y
w ould tip up and have a l o o k
o n a small gravel spot that wa s
an overhanging tree to watch.
A s e a c h f i sh l e f t t h e s n a g s
t h e y wo u l d t r y a n d f e ed o n
the spot, I would throw 3 or 4
B o i l y s a t th em t o s p o o k t h e m
a s i t wa s B e ns o n o r b u s t ! T h i s
game of cat and mouse went
on for hours in the blazing
sun until eventually there was
only 2 fish left Benson and a
s m a l l m i d d o u b l e m i r r o r. T h e
mirror left passing the spot
without looking at the bait
and after another 20 minutes
h a d p a s s e d, c u r i o s i t y g o t t h e
b e t t e r o f m e. I c l i m b e d d o w n
to see if I could see Benson, I
c o u l d n ’t s e e h e r a n d t h o u g h t
she had left the snags by a
d i f f e r e n t r o u t e. I w a s w al k i n g
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