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angling as hard as I could. If have too many dramas with
it took me two hours to find the weed.
them, and another hour to get
T h i s m i r r o r w a s o n e I ’d s e e n
them out at 34 wraps over a shot of and earmarked as the
bait, then so be it.
‘most wanted’, even though I
T h e y s e e m e d t o s p e n d a l o t d i d n ’t w a n t t o s t a r t t h i n k i n g
o f t i m e o u t a t r a n g e i n t h e a b o u t t a r g e t s , I c o u l d n ’t h e l p
relatively safe middle zones, thinking this would be a mega
so it ended up being a range one to add to the album. By
g a m e,
trying
to
nick
bites far the best looking of the big
d u r i n g t h e h o u r s I w a s t h e r e. u n s .
The lake itself was an odd
I ’d s e e n a f e w s h o w s o u t a t
one – being painfully daytime range as I was packing up the
orientated it made trying to previous morning and noted
get
night
bites
a
difficult it
for
that
night,
arriving
prospect, and it took me a few back around 5.45 after work.
weeks to work it all out.
Being
predominantly
T h a n k f u l l y t h e a r e a w a s f r e e,
s i l t y, n o o n e e l s e h a d p r e - e m p t e d
shallow and with vast areas the fresh NW wind and I got
of low-lying silk weed in the them all out sweet, finding
late spring and summer meant a lovely firm spot amongst
t h a t h e l i ’s a n d l o n g h i n g e s t h e s i l t a n d w e e d r i g h t i n t h e
w e r e o f t e n f i r s t c h o i c e, n o t a r e a t h e y ’d s h o w n – w i t h o u t
wanting
to
spend
too
l o n g d o u b t a n a r e a t h e y ’d f r e s h l y
leading around as I was often harvested.
setting up on fish. Heli Safes
It
all
came
together
o n a f e w f e e t o f l e a d c o r e w i t h p e r f e c t l y. A r a r e o n e f r o m t h e
4-5oz
leads
for
the
r a n g e p i t , a n d o n e I d i d n ’t e x p e c t
w e r e t h e m a i n s t a y, e n s u r i n g I t o b e c r o s s i n g p a t h s w i t h –
could drop the leads and not ‘Blackspot’ at 43
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