Top Five Best Things About My Last Fishing Trip...

[Wordbender]

1. Being all snug in my bivvy, reading Harry Potter* and sipping a cheeky glass of Merlot, while the rain hammered down and the sky turned to metallic purple.

 

2. Watching the setting sun replaced by a constellation of glow worms twinkling from the reeds all around me.

 

3. Practically hand-feeding a family of woodmice. One little chap even climbed on my boot and did that impossibly cute face-wash thing. Bless.

 

4. Managing to fry a 16-ounce rump steak to perfection and serving it to myself with new potatoes and sugar-snap peas. **The bloke in the next swim had some Pot-Vomit thing, so I gave him half of the steak and trimmings and made a new chum.

 

5. Caught carp of 23, 22, 25 and 27 pounds on a new bait I'm testing for a friend's company.

 

 

 

* Spookily, the lad who plays Draco Malfoy regularly fishes at this lake. Yes I know, how interesting.

 

** Erm...I'm not portraying myself as the ultimate hardcore carper at all, am I?

 

 

So, let's have your fishing-related top fives - lures, baits, species, methods, tackle items...whatever.

Edited July 31, 2007 by Wordbender

[Elton]

I'm disappointed that my phone calls didn't make it to the top 5

[Wordbender]

I'm disappointed that my phone calls didn't make it to the top 5

 

 

 

Well, obviously your constant interruptions of my angling/Harry Potter muse were wonderful things.

 

If I'd done a 'top 500', I'm sure they'd have snuck in...probably.

[Anderoo]

Sounds like a great trip, especially the mouse

 

And the steak

 

And the fish...

[Alan Stubbs]

Yesterday:

 

1) Fishing a gripmesh feeder looking for bream and tench - preventing the rod being taken for a journey to Davy Jones, all for a 3lb tench. After 15 minutes it was almost a fish a cast in the 4 swims I was feeding - none more than 25 yards away.

 

2) Bernadette and her daughter turning up and cooking dinner for the 3 of us. Chicken breast with cream and white wine sauce, rice with peas, peppers and sweetcorn. A bottle of Muscadet sur Lie and decent coffee (Jamaica blue Mountain)

 

3) 6 hours without seeing another person, no radio, no telephone signal = no disturbance.

 

4) Getting mullah-ed by skimmers - around 70 of them. I was so busy, I didn't bother with a 2nd rod, let alone 3.

 

5) Beautiful weather leaving me feeling of absolutely knackered at the end of the day. I put my brolly up for the first time... to keep the sun off me.

[Rob Ward]

Yesterday:

 

1) Fishing a gripmesh feeder looking for bream and tench - preventing the rod being taken for a journey to Davy Jones, all for a 3lb tench. After 15 minutes it was almost a fish a cast in the 4 swims I was feeding - none more than 25 yards away.

 

2) Bernadette and her daughter turning up and cooking dinner for the 3 of us. Chicken breast with cream and white wine sauce, rice with peas, peppers and sweetcorn. A bottle of Muscadet sur Lie and decent coffee (Jamaica blue Mountain)

 

3) 6 hours without seeing another person, no radio, no telephone signal = no disturbance.

 

4) Getting mullah-ed by skimmers - around 70 of them. I was so busy, I didn't bother with a 2nd rod, let alone 3.

 

5) Beautiful weather leaving me feeling of absolutely knackered at the end of the day. I put my brolly up for the first time... to keep the sun off me.

 

Do I know this venue?

[Houseplant]

1. Being all snug in my bivvy, reading Harry Potter* and sipping a cheeky glass of Merlot, while the rain hammered down and the sky turned to metallic purple.

 

2. Watching the setting sun replaced by a constellation of glow worms twinkling from the reeds all around me.

 

3. Practically hand-feeding a family of woodmice. One little chap even climbed on my boot and did that impossibly cute face-wash thing. Bless.

 

4. Managing to fry a 16-ounce rump steak to perfection and serving it to myself with new potatoes and sugar-snap peas. **The bloke in the next swim had some Pot-Vomit thing, so I gave him half of the steak and trimmings and made a new chum.

 

5. Caught carp of 23, 22, 25 and 27 pounds on a new bait I'm testing for a friend's company.

* Spookily, the lad who plays Draco Malfoy regularly fishes at this lake. Yes I know, how interesting.

 

i hope #5 didn't interfere with #1 to 4 too much!

[Wordbender]

i hope #5 didn't interfere with #1 to 4 too much!

 

Certainly not! It's all about priorities you know.

[Wordbender]

2) Bernadette and her daughter turning up and cooking dinner for the 3 of us. Chicken breast with cream and white wine sauce, rice with peas, peppers and sweetcorn. A bottle of Muscadet sur Lie and decent coffee (Jamaica blue Mountain)

 

 

Ah yes, you can't beat that bare essentials, no-frills approach. We suffer for our art, eh Alan.