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r o und and went ho me. T h i s
i n terest was certainl y fuck i n g
m y plans up. But after a co u p l e
o f weeks of them bl ankin g I
h a d the lake to mys elf ag a i n .
I started doing overnigh t e r s
g e tting there just before d a r k
a n d packing away earl y f o r
w ork in the morning but n o
a c tion was forthco ming a n d
to find an edge and this I felt
c o u l d b e th e a n s w e r.
I baited it with pungent
squid chop ups ready for my
r e t u r n t h e n e x t d a y.
O c t o b e r 1 2 th w a s a r e a l f o g g y
d a y, m y m e m o r y t o o k m e b a c k
to colne mere landing the
l i n e a r i n d e n s e f o g, t h i s f i r e d
m e u p a n d th a t a f t e r n o o n I s e t
s i ghtings were very li mi t e d .
We were now into Octo b e r
a n d time was running o ut .
As I was looking from a tree I
noticed the Big un just appear
from nowhere it looked huge,
but I couldn’t help thinking
why I hadn’t noticed it in the
shadow water getting to where
it was. This puzzled me so I
walked round the bog side of
the lake and with the polaroids
I could see a deeper crater in
the bottom with a gully leading
back to the pondweed, the
water around the crater was
only one foot deep.
Observation is key to fish i n g
a n d when you are strug g l i n g,
y o u have to look even ha r d e r
u p o n th e b o g s i d e 2 0 y a r d s
f r o m wa t e r s e d g e o n a h a r d
patch just big enough for my
E.S.P low pro umbrella and
b e d c h a i r, t h e t w o r o d s w e r e
a foot away from me and the
rods were locked into the
b u t t re s t s , I u n d e r a r m e d m y
r i g i n to t h e c r a t e r, I c o u l d
see my hookbait, the leadcore
was draped up the side of the
crater on the shallow area and
t h e r o d s wa l k e d b a c k 2 0 y a r d s
with rods high draping the
s e m i sl a c k l i n e o v e r t h e m a r s h
grass and clutches up tight.
A s I s a t t h e r e q u i e t l y, I n o t i c e d
t h e B i g u n ’s t a i l i n t h e w e e d
a b o u t 1 5 y a r ds a w a y f r o m t h e
c r a t e r, 3 0 m i n u t e s later as
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