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Tigger

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I remember when I was a student at the Institute of Freshwater Ecology in the Lake District. We used to go swimming in the lakes in summer. We had a young lad there who worked in the hatchery, and one time as he came out of Coniston Water a cleg bit him in the middle of the chest. With the anticoagulant in the bite and his skin being wet from swimming, the amount of blood from a tiny little bite was just ridiculous. Looked like he'd been stabbed!

I ashamedly had to look up what a cleg was ,round here in the land of horse everything that bites is just a horse fly and smudges pretty hard to ID but on of those pictures fits the "house" fly that bit me through my sock a few years ago ,it must have got through the nets we have on the doors and windows as we have horses ,sheep ,alpacas ,pigs and cows of all description surrounding us "horse" flies big and small abound and it they are full of cow blood the mozzies take over.

A really big one settled on a horse i was talking to (no its rider) and did that horse jump ,probably the fastest its moved for many a year as the majority of the riders i see on my rounds are as long in the tooth as their horses

 

The worst i have been bitten was pulling out grape vines full of grapes in the south of france,got covered in the juice and very attractive ,i kept an eye on the huge wasp like things but kept getting really painful bites from invisible things ,in the end i spotted a tiny black fly and boy did it smaft ,next day i was as lumpy as a ploughed field

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Hey P, i've still got "ALL" my hair remember LOL.

 

You caught 'ewt with that cackypoo rod yet ?

 

Nah, hardly been, work stopped play. Got done over by a pondpig on Bumswart last night, line was round the pin handle and it went off at a rate of knots, flatrodded me and "ping!", Would have got another one but that storm came over and I had washing out... Mapnez had been on earlier when I went to bait up, not sure if he had owt.

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Tigger,

 

Wish you were here. I've been invited on a week's venture trout trotting the river - alas - no way 9000+ ft elevation. If I could breath I sure as hell couldn't "trot" 3 or 4 miles. Notice not a lot of places to get out and rest. (Gunnison River Colorado).

(I don't know how to get the piccy closer to the type. Photo from pal who invited me.)

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