We Have reached another Monday morning. And once again I can happily reveal that another excellent weekend has gone by and I can reveal glad news! I know that this may seem a touch pleased with myself to somebody that has had a terrible weekend, and to you I apologise and wish you a better one this coming Friday. In fact, if I have a poor weekend, you can be positive that I will be letting you know all about it as it will give me a straightforward topic to start the week with if it makes you feel better.
As well as a nice trip out with the family, I managed to discover an excellent place for a spot of fishing on the canal. At least, it’ll be perfect for the summer as the view depends considerably on cricket being played on the field over the canal, which won’t be seen in this hemisphere in January. But, once the new cricket season opens in May, it’s the finest location along the canal for drowning the fishing tackle as long as the batsman doesn’t crash one for six into the water where I’ve got a maggot drowning.
I’ve been on the watch for spots to fish when I start fishing again and so far it’s going well. There are a choice of locations I’ve found along the canal towpath so far that look good for setting up the fishing tackle for a quiet few hours pondering life on a Friday afternoon, so that’s one tick in the box.
Also, as we start to emerge from winter, I’m looking forward to spending Saturdays doing some angling if I can bribe the present Mrs Izzard to let me out. If, for no other excuse than I can have the complete day with Radio 5 which is unparalleled in my judgement for somebody at all interested in soccer. From Fighting Talk through to Six-Oh-Six, it’s a marvellous afternoon’s listening, and I consider that combine that with a day out with the fishing tackle, you can’t go wrong.
I am also after a lake or large pond nearby, hopefully a bit isolated like the fisheries I went to as a lad in Cranleigh.
For river fishing though, I know precisely where I am going, which is to the Severn near Arley where I can both sit by the water, dangle my fishing tackle and look at the steam trains on the Severn Valley Railway thundering up and down the line every twenty minutes or so. Can anything possibly be better? Radio 5, fishing and steam trains? If there’s a way to involve some cricket as well, I think it might be possible that I’ll never leave the riverbank.
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