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July/August Interlude

 

July & August (Interlude)

After the trip to Brenig at all went a bit quiet over the summer as life in general got in the way of fishing, there was also the issue of where to fish as Brenig is a 4 hour+ trip for me, which is fine if I can combine it with a weekend visiting my mum but no use as a day out.

Did some research and worked out that Draycote was roughly equidistant between myself and D so suggested to him that the next trip should be there, D in agreement so we agreed to catch up and sort out dates during September

Additional Equipment

  • ·       Boatseat – Wychwood fold away, plenty of support and reasonably priced
  • ·       Fishing Bag – rucksack not accessible enough for fishing with having to root around inside for everything so bought a new bag, bigger than I thought it was going to be when it arrived but will be in a boat so all good
  • ·       Rig winders and box – if I am going to fish with droppers then need to pre-make sufficient for the day as tying them on a boat would be tedious
  • ·       New fly box
  • ·       A few new flies
  • ·       Forceps
  • ·       Priest
  • ·       Fish bag

The 1st is obvious from my comments regarding the amount of fun it isn’t to have a full days fishing with no back support

Bag, priest and forceps come from the realisation as D was landing all of his fish that there were certain items of equipment that were actually pretty important that I no longer possessed

Flies and boxes you can never have enough of

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