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Walthamstow – 30/01/08

With storms forecasted for the last day of the season, I made a switch on my annual leave and took the Wednesday of instead of the 31st. Sunny day with a cold breezy wind blowing from the SW. Tried the usual spots and never got a pull.

Decided to fish the whole length of the causeway of #5 with the wind blowing from the right. I was using a Di5 shooting head and whacking a pair of boobs right out with an apps blood worm on a dropper. Thought I would have fish lined up, but only managed one pull. If I caught one it would have been a whopper, but no joy.

Met Gerry who had hooked a 5lb+ brownie the day before in #5 on a cove nymph and was his best brown in 20 years fishing at Wally!

I managed to catch a Tesco bag that went well at first (long time since anything gave a bend to the rod). The bag had quite a few zebra mussels on it and I threw it to the side on the bank. A few seconds later I was sure I saw something flapping around in it, and was amazed to see I had ‘bagged’ a 3” perch, nicely wrapped up for our eastern European friends – better and fresher than Lidl!!

Whilst moving along the causeway I gave a hefty pull on the double haul, when whack, I felt the line hit the back of my head and the belly of the line flew over the top of my head in front of me. I thought where is my boobies! Then realised one had gone all the way through my ear lobe – barb and all. I then spent around 2 mins trying to extract it, and there was a fair amount of blood. I had to squeeze my lobe with the left had while really pulling hard on the fly to pass the barb all the way back though the lobe. Had one all the way through my neck skin before, but this felt worse, plus I was on my own. Must get a hoodie!

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Walthamstow – 26/01/08

Managed a few hours on a cold breezy afternoon. A competition was being held and a few fish had been caught in #5.

I tried the spot in #4 where I have been having some success, but only managed one pull.
Went to #5 after the competition people had finished and a few fish had come from the corner by the hut and this was where the winner had been fishing. Met Frank who had only caught one. Started fishing the corner next to him and never got a sniff, finally lost 3 flies in 2 casts and packed up.

Gary (WFF editor) had caught a cracking 5.5lb in #5 along the centre of the causeway on an orange booby, and unfortunately caught it a few minutes after the competition had ended.
Also heard quite a few of the small stocked browns were still swimming close to the causeway in #5 and were still being caught and returned and a few of them looked like the had turned in to lepers!

Great to see fish still being caught, even though the last stocking was in November.

Reports the previous days were that fish were being hooked on bloodworms fished near the bottom on bungs.

Had a row with some c*nt on the tube who sat next to me blearing his music from a shity phone on the way there, got me really angry and I was ready for a fight instead of a relaxing few hours fishing!

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