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Morning Ian, there are some cracking gudgeon at Warford; they even put a bend in the rod!!!

He comes from a long line of crooks and snake oil salesmen, nothing to do with his ancestry, just the job requirements.

I didn't (no TV) but nothing about Cameron would surprise me. The bloke is a crook, and always has been.

With an afternoon off and a pint of maggots bored in the fridge, I took them to Hambridge for a quick session. Having been dry and sunny all day, the heavens opened as soon as I got bankside and left me soaked, making every bend down to toss in a few maggots in the swim an exercise in soggy bottomed unpleasantness. It got the fish feeding in order with a 1lb 2 brownie sandwiched between 4 small roach and 7 dace to a hunky 7 ounces. The last of the maggots coincided with a final lashing from the rain gods. This was my first expedition using braid (thanks, Chris) and apart from the biggest fish I hooked shaking himself off, everything else stuck, which was a big improvement on recent losses.