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Wow that is goo d, i t ’s
o b viously no mug the n I
t h ought to myself, surely, i t ’s
g o t to make an app eara n c e
s o on. I then decided to s t a r t
s t udying the map of t h e
l a ke as we were no w in t h e
m i ddle of July and ho pin g a l l
s p awning had well and tr u l y
t a ken place, my plan wa s t o
s m a l l s o u n l e ss t h e f i s h w e r e
using the margins, then they
would have to come through
t h e g a p a s i t i s t h e o n l y a cc e s s .
F u l l y f i x a t ed o n t h e m a p , I
w a s s h a k e n fr e e o f t h e t r a n c e
b y m y p h o n e r i n g i n g, i t w a s
m y o l d m a t e, B r y a n F l o w e r. A s
normal the phone call started
with a barrage of friendly
s t art doing a few 24- h o u r
s e ssions. It was more j us t s o
I could start learning ab o u t
t h e swims really, so I ha d a
b e tter understanding c o m e
t h e Autumn.
As previously mentio n e d,
f o r a small lake ea ch sw i m
h a d a good amount of wate r i n
f r ont of them however, I re a l l y
f a ncied one of the swi m s
o u t of the m all. The swim i s
c a lled the M25, and it j ust f e l t
y o u had a lot more o pti o n s ,
n o t only reed lined bu t t h e
s wim gave you access to th e
g a p between the island s. I
j u st had a feeling th is wo u l d
t u rn out to be important a n d
t h e reason being the lake w a s
abuse before carrying on to a
normal conversation of (what
you up too Baldy)? I replied
w i t h I a m c ur r e n t l y l o o k i n g a t
t h e m a p o f Da r r o w t o w o r k o u t
t h e p l a n o f at t a c k .
B r y a n r e p l ie d, w h e n a r e y o u
thinking of fishing it and I
replied to next week if there
i s s p a c e. I c a n d o n e x t w e e k
h e r e p l i e d so b o o k m e o n a n d
l e t m e k n o w w h a t d a y.
A f u rt h e r o n s l a u g h t o f
b r o th e r l y
abuse
occurred
before the phone went dead.
N o w I k n e w B r y a n w a s c om i n g
I o p t e d f o r 2 s w i m s, T h e L a y b y a n d t h e M 2 5 . T h e L a y -b y
was the swim to the left of the
M25 but fished the other side
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