The Hopeful Match Fisher
I recently sent in a question to the Angling Times about festivals, which I was grateful that they printed, but I can't do that too often.
So any helpful souls out there?
1. Do I need a margin pole? My current pole can handle up to grade 20 elastic and is made as a carp pole (Preston 460).
2. Is there an advantage in buying worms bulk? Will they keep ok for weeks? I don't have a spare fridge.
3. I'm using traditional shot for pole rigs. Why would I move to Olivettes other types such as stots?
4. What size and pattern of hook is best for pellet waggler? I've been using 8mm pellets with a PR27 size 14/16. I seem to have issues connecting up with the fish.
5. Is premixed paste (in those little pots you get from Dynamite, etc) better or self-mixed?
Any help gratefully received!
Hopeful
Monday 22 September 2014
Sunday 21 September 2014
Mates, Pairs and Teams
The Hopeful Match Fisher
Having been out of the match game for a good while I'm very much a one man band. My old fishing sidekick moved away a few years back and we rarely meet up these days.
There is a winter pairs league coming up, but I just don't know anyone yet, so looks like I will miss out. Also I'm dead keen to get some festival bookings in and perhaps a week over to Ireland.
I need someone as keen as me to fish with!
My problem is that because I work a lot of Sundays there is no point me joining a club because they usually fish Sunday matches. I'm likely to fish the Saturday matches at Gold Valley and Willow, at least until the spring.
Hopeful
Having been out of the match game for a good while I'm very much a one man band. My old fishing sidekick moved away a few years back and we rarely meet up these days.
There is a winter pairs league coming up, but I just don't know anyone yet, so looks like I will miss out. Also I'm dead keen to get some festival bookings in and perhaps a week over to Ireland.
I need someone as keen as me to fish with!
My problem is that because I work a lot of Sundays there is no point me joining a club because they usually fish Sunday matches. I'm likely to fish the Saturday matches at Gold Valley and Willow, at least until the spring.
Hopeful
My First Match for Ages
The Hopeful Match Fisher
I finally got around to getting my first match booked up (well at least the first for about 20 years anyway). What allowed that was that I got my keepnet setup sorted out and found a free Saturday.
Willow Park is well known to southern anglers and it's one of the old commercial fisheries, which many would describe as a natural venue (at least to look at). The Saturday open matches seem to alternate between the small lake and middle lake. The small lake is considered to be better for weight than the middle lake and it's float only. I'm grateful to Willow Park for putting some details about match results, pegs and winning methods on their website. I mined the info to see what intelligence I could get about it.
The small lake at Willow Park is well lined with trees and willows in some of the corners. It was one of these corners that I drew from the bag, peg 1 in fact. A couple of the regulars were quick to point out that it was a fruitful peg but would be hard to get the lumps out of the jungle. So it was to prove.
The layout of the corner was such that I had a lot of my own water. I therefore opted to fish a longish pole (10m) out away from the corner where I potted in feed on 10o'clock, 12o'clock and 2 o'clock lines. I also regularly pinged a few pellets out to see what interest there might be up in the water.
First drop in on banded pellet hooked into a lump which charged out into the lake, which i was happy about (away from the roots), but then made for the jungle as I drew it in. Lost. There was evidence of a lot of fish rooting around on the feed, so I was confident I could get something moving. Looking around lake I couldn't see an awful lot happening so I was pleased to have some obvious activity.
Over the first hour I worked out a succession of skimmers and hooked into the odd carp - all with the same effect: lost fish. Hours two and three were very quiet and I reverted to silvers on corn to try build some weight. Around three hours I managed to get mirror of 5lb into the net, but now the problem was connecting with any carp at all, let alone getting them to the net. With around ninety minutes to go I fed both margins and the lumps moved in with a vengeance. Much to my frustration I lost all but one up until the hooter. I weighed in 11 pounds although I not sure why I bothered.
I recon I managed to get more carp on the end of my piece of string than most of the other anglers, but the peg and my approach just didn't allow me to get the buggers landed. I've fished pegs like this before and done better, but I concluded that my gear was not up to the job. My margin rig was a latex 16 elastic with 0.21 to 0.17 bottom. Most of the losses were bottomed-out hookpulls rather than breakages.
Anyway I enjoyed the experience and went away with some clear ideas about what to do next. A practice session a couple of days back saw me with purple hydro, 0.21s bottom and PR38s. I did a fair bit better.
Next match is on 27th September.
Hopeful
I finally got around to getting my first match booked up (well at least the first for about 20 years anyway). What allowed that was that I got my keepnet setup sorted out and found a free Saturday.
Willow Park is well known to southern anglers and it's one of the old commercial fisheries, which many would describe as a natural venue (at least to look at). The Saturday open matches seem to alternate between the small lake and middle lake. The small lake is considered to be better for weight than the middle lake and it's float only. I'm grateful to Willow Park for putting some details about match results, pegs and winning methods on their website. I mined the info to see what intelligence I could get about it.
The small lake at Willow Park is well lined with trees and willows in some of the corners. It was one of these corners that I drew from the bag, peg 1 in fact. A couple of the regulars were quick to point out that it was a fruitful peg but would be hard to get the lumps out of the jungle. So it was to prove.
The layout of the corner was such that I had a lot of my own water. I therefore opted to fish a longish pole (10m) out away from the corner where I potted in feed on 10o'clock, 12o'clock and 2 o'clock lines. I also regularly pinged a few pellets out to see what interest there might be up in the water.
First drop in on banded pellet hooked into a lump which charged out into the lake, which i was happy about (away from the roots), but then made for the jungle as I drew it in. Lost. There was evidence of a lot of fish rooting around on the feed, so I was confident I could get something moving. Looking around lake I couldn't see an awful lot happening so I was pleased to have some obvious activity.
Over the first hour I worked out a succession of skimmers and hooked into the odd carp - all with the same effect: lost fish. Hours two and three were very quiet and I reverted to silvers on corn to try build some weight. Around three hours I managed to get mirror of 5lb into the net, but now the problem was connecting with any carp at all, let alone getting them to the net. With around ninety minutes to go I fed both margins and the lumps moved in with a vengeance. Much to my frustration I lost all but one up until the hooter. I weighed in 11 pounds although I not sure why I bothered.
I recon I managed to get more carp on the end of my piece of string than most of the other anglers, but the peg and my approach just didn't allow me to get the buggers landed. I've fished pegs like this before and done better, but I concluded that my gear was not up to the job. My margin rig was a latex 16 elastic with 0.21 to 0.17 bottom. Most of the losses were bottomed-out hookpulls rather than breakages.
Anyway I enjoyed the experience and went away with some clear ideas about what to do next. A practice session a couple of days back saw me with purple hydro, 0.21s bottom and PR38s. I did a fair bit better.
Next match is on 27th September.
Hopeful
Making Choices
The Hopeful Match Fisher
I tend to think of my fishing from the bait upwards. A lot of care is put into sorting out decent bait, appropriate hooks and balanced hooklength lines. Tying up length and storing a variety of patterns is important to me, so I picked up a number of storage options for various types. After reading and experience of different possibilities I've settled on Preston's Reflo Power for hooklengths and Preston and Tuberitini hooks. I like the Preston line because its got a good balance of stretch and bounce (if you know what I mean) I also find if quite durable, and it ties up nicely. I think I've got a spool of every diameter expect the highest and lowest options.
The Preston PR and 400 series hooks are great, particularly the PR36 and 456 patterns. They seem really popular amongst anglers and I'm always seeing them get a mention. What strikes me about the PI range is that it is not so wide, like the Drennan and Kamasan offerings. I find I just get confused and paralyzed by too many options, so PI have got the balance just right I think.
My routine is to keep five of every chosen pattern I think I will need, varying on line and length, plus also whether I will give it a looped hair, long hair for bigger baits, a pellet band or a quickstop. I guess I have around 40 patterns and 200 hooklengths in store at any one time.
Another story is groundbait, and once again I'm looking for a range based on match needs rather than sales needs! What I sometimes find a pain is that companies (Dynamite and Marauku for example) have so many overlapping variants that I just can see the correct choice. I've tended to settle on Sonubaits and Bag 'Em because the ranges are better defined and described, and I can see the logic behind the choices. I particularly like the 2kg Sonubait bags, which I find more practical and better value. I also love the resealable bags which I keep to store pellets! Again the Bag 'Em range is also quite narrow but the groundbaits are distinctive and careful aimed at certain usages and conditions. The works in my brain! The fact that successful and respected matchmen have put their names to them also resonates with me.
The one thing I've not yet had a hard look into is purchasing of bulk worms (Willyworms being an example). I'm not clear on worms as winter bait yet, so as it begins to cool down I'll give it a try. I just want to be able to buy in bulk and store what I don't use. I'm not sure how long worms will live in their sealed bucket for. Any advice greatly received.
Lastly, I've built up a fair collection of liquid additives. A lot of these are for pepping up groundbait for bream. I'm keen to push along on additives and see how I get on with them.
Hopeful
I tend to think of my fishing from the bait upwards. A lot of care is put into sorting out decent bait, appropriate hooks and balanced hooklength lines. Tying up length and storing a variety of patterns is important to me, so I picked up a number of storage options for various types. After reading and experience of different possibilities I've settled on Preston's Reflo Power for hooklengths and Preston and Tuberitini hooks. I like the Preston line because its got a good balance of stretch and bounce (if you know what I mean) I also find if quite durable, and it ties up nicely. I think I've got a spool of every diameter expect the highest and lowest options.
The Preston PR and 400 series hooks are great, particularly the PR36 and 456 patterns. They seem really popular amongst anglers and I'm always seeing them get a mention. What strikes me about the PI range is that it is not so wide, like the Drennan and Kamasan offerings. I find I just get confused and paralyzed by too many options, so PI have got the balance just right I think.
My routine is to keep five of every chosen pattern I think I will need, varying on line and length, plus also whether I will give it a looped hair, long hair for bigger baits, a pellet band or a quickstop. I guess I have around 40 patterns and 200 hooklengths in store at any one time.
Another story is groundbait, and once again I'm looking for a range based on match needs rather than sales needs! What I sometimes find a pain is that companies (Dynamite and Marauku for example) have so many overlapping variants that I just can see the correct choice. I've tended to settle on Sonubaits and Bag 'Em because the ranges are better defined and described, and I can see the logic behind the choices. I particularly like the 2kg Sonubait bags, which I find more practical and better value. I also love the resealable bags which I keep to store pellets! Again the Bag 'Em range is also quite narrow but the groundbaits are distinctive and careful aimed at certain usages and conditions. The works in my brain! The fact that successful and respected matchmen have put their names to them also resonates with me.
The one thing I've not yet had a hard look into is purchasing of bulk worms (Willyworms being an example). I'm not clear on worms as winter bait yet, so as it begins to cool down I'll give it a try. I just want to be able to buy in bulk and store what I don't use. I'm not sure how long worms will live in their sealed bucket for. Any advice greatly received.
Lastly, I've built up a fair collection of liquid additives. A lot of these are for pepping up groundbait for bream. I'm keen to push along on additives and see how I get on with them.
Hopeful
Saturday 20 September 2014
Practice and Pleasure
The Hopeful Match Fisher
I always went fishing for pleasure and I still do, but I enjoy competing with myself when I go. Every session has a plan, or a least an intention to try and improve on some method or other. My strongest suit is stillwater waggler or long pole for bream. I tend to connect with bream and I usually manage to get a decent swim going.
I think I'm trying to achieve one thing - control. You know that feeling when you have sorted out the method, got the fish in front of you, and you have them predictable and reliable as you fill your net. If I can't achieve that then I at least try to get a few methods working to keep the fishing coming from different swims in the peg. I can catch fish on any method you like, but I've not mastered each one to the extend of being able to get to that bagging-up stage. For instance I can catch on pellet waggler, but I've not yet managed to get it motoring long as I've seem other better anglers manage.
So I get out to the lakes at least once each week, I try to get a practice session in as well as a match. Each time there is a target method to practice, as long as conditions allow. It's a system which works for me and I analyse everything and work out what I might do different next time.
I never go fishing without a purpose, and I always enjoy it.
Hopeful
I always went fishing for pleasure and I still do, but I enjoy competing with myself when I go. Every session has a plan, or a least an intention to try and improve on some method or other. My strongest suit is stillwater waggler or long pole for bream. I tend to connect with bream and I usually manage to get a decent swim going.
I think I'm trying to achieve one thing - control. You know that feeling when you have sorted out the method, got the fish in front of you, and you have them predictable and reliable as you fill your net. If I can't achieve that then I at least try to get a few methods working to keep the fishing coming from different swims in the peg. I can catch fish on any method you like, but I've not mastered each one to the extend of being able to get to that bagging-up stage. For instance I can catch on pellet waggler, but I've not yet managed to get it motoring long as I've seem other better anglers manage.
So I get out to the lakes at least once each week, I try to get a practice session in as well as a match. Each time there is a target method to practice, as long as conditions allow. It's a system which works for me and I analyse everything and work out what I might do different next time.
I never go fishing without a purpose, and I always enjoy it.
Hopeful
The Media Circus
The Hopeful Match Fisherman
Match fishing is no different to any other sport in that it has its own media merry-go-round and established companies and characters. But what I have found so useful is the huge range of instructional videos on YouTube that they produce. Recently I had a 10-day holiday in Gozo (just off Malta), to which I took several match fishing magazines, books and download videos onto my laptop. It kept me going for ages on the long boring days by the pool or on the beach.
There is much to be learnt, and certainly when coming back to match fishing after 20 years. I get the mags - Pole Fishing, Match Fishing and the good old Angling Times which is a must-read each week. I also watch, ask and drag around on the net looking for tips, ideas and generally absorbing as much info as I can.
So just a few words about guys I've found full of wisdom and well worth watching or reading:
Andy Findley - Has an angling brain the size of a planet. He seems cool as a cucumber and always has options. The Steve Davis of match fishing I recon.
Darren Cox - Another bloke who just always seems on his game, a fount of knowledge on everything.
Mark Pollard - I've got a great book he wrote (the Fox Book of Commercial Fishing) which is distilled wisdom.
It's always good to have some guides to follow, so thanks to these few.
Hopeful
Match fishing is no different to any other sport in that it has its own media merry-go-round and established companies and characters. But what I have found so useful is the huge range of instructional videos on YouTube that they produce. Recently I had a 10-day holiday in Gozo (just off Malta), to which I took several match fishing magazines, books and download videos onto my laptop. It kept me going for ages on the long boring days by the pool or on the beach.
There is much to be learnt, and certainly when coming back to match fishing after 20 years. I get the mags - Pole Fishing, Match Fishing and the good old Angling Times which is a must-read each week. I also watch, ask and drag around on the net looking for tips, ideas and generally absorbing as much info as I can.
So just a few words about guys I've found full of wisdom and well worth watching or reading:
Andy Findley - Has an angling brain the size of a planet. He seems cool as a cucumber and always has options. The Steve Davis of match fishing I recon.
Darren Cox - Another bloke who just always seems on his game, a fount of knowledge on everything.
Mark Pollard - I've got a great book he wrote (the Fox Book of Commercial Fishing) which is distilled wisdom.
It's always good to have some guides to follow, so thanks to these few.
Hopeful
Friday 19 September 2014
Ok I'm a Tackle Tart
The Hopeful Match Fisherman
I am a tackle tart and not ashamed of it. Having decided to replace all my crabby old gear I am now offended by the thought of having anything other than nice sexy looking cool gear. Decent bring confidence and that is no bad thing when competing.
Having made the decision to replace it all I dragged together £1,200 - just the start of it. After a lot of reading, Internet research and talking to local tackle shops I took a trip to Crowthorne Angling (Berkshire) and came away with a Matrix Superbox, Preston Pole, a Maver Powerline rod for pellet waggler, some luggage and a whole load of bits and bobs.
Since then I've added rollers, a Maver method feed rod, more luggage, a lovely Preston PXR reel, three keepnets and all I need to setup a good collection of hooklength and winders. I now have the necessary kit to fish a range of methods for matches on commercial fisheries! I suppose it's been about £2,500 so far - not even enough to by the most expensive pole! I've still got a long way to go.
Don't get me wrong, I well know that it's not all about the tackle, that won't be enough to do well. But I'm more confident with reliable and quality gear. Also, as a scuba diver I'm used to taking my kit very seriously because in that game your life depends on it when you are down on a shipwreck at 40m. Thankfully match fishing is not a dangerous....
Thanks also to my very tolerant wife......
Hopeful
I am a tackle tart and not ashamed of it. Having decided to replace all my crabby old gear I am now offended by the thought of having anything other than nice sexy looking cool gear. Decent bring confidence and that is no bad thing when competing.
Having made the decision to replace it all I dragged together £1,200 - just the start of it. After a lot of reading, Internet research and talking to local tackle shops I took a trip to Crowthorne Angling (Berkshire) and came away with a Matrix Superbox, Preston Pole, a Maver Powerline rod for pellet waggler, some luggage and a whole load of bits and bobs.
Since then I've added rollers, a Maver method feed rod, more luggage, a lovely Preston PXR reel, three keepnets and all I need to setup a good collection of hooklength and winders. I now have the necessary kit to fish a range of methods for matches on commercial fisheries! I suppose it's been about £2,500 so far - not even enough to by the most expensive pole! I've still got a long way to go.
Don't get me wrong, I well know that it's not all about the tackle, that won't be enough to do well. But I'm more confident with reliable and quality gear. Also, as a scuba diver I'm used to taking my kit very seriously because in that game your life depends on it when you are down on a shipwreck at 40m. Thankfully match fishing is not a dangerous....
Thanks also to my very tolerant wife......
Hopeful
The Old Gear
The Hopeful Match Fisherman
Do you remember Bennetts of Sheffield? I loved this tackle shop although I never went there. For more years than I can remember they ran a regular back page on the Angler's Mail listing out all the gear they had for sale. I used to spend ages drooling over the possibilities of new gear. When I got my first full-time job aged 18 I phoned them up and placed a big order for gear, all of which I paid for with a weekly payment book. How times have changed!
In fact that gear was to last for a very long time - 26 years in fact and I still have most of it in my garage. But in order to step up as a match fisher I finally had to replace it, and with a little sadness. My old kit list is an exercise in angling history and many of those my age will nod knowingly from their own experiences.
For years I sat on the old Shakespeare seatbox. I think it was indestructible. Even with two side trays it still only consisted of four parts. I don't think there has ever been a seatbox with more storage space. I also got hold of a Shakespeare Omni pole, 8m and all glass. It weighed a ton and lasted about a year. Rods were a Normark Silver Medallion, which served me faultlessly (even for Pike!), an ABU wand, Daiwa and Mitchell Match reels (which was heavy even back then), Steadfast nets and Nash bags. Like everyone I had stacks of Drennan hooks, feedlinks and Maxima line.
All this was used faithfully for years, right up until May this year when I had its last outing - a fitting catch of over 100 pounds of bream from Gold Valley. The whole collection is still sitting in the garage and I can't bring myself to get rid of any of it.
Hopeful
Do you remember Bennetts of Sheffield? I loved this tackle shop although I never went there. For more years than I can remember they ran a regular back page on the Angler's Mail listing out all the gear they had for sale. I used to spend ages drooling over the possibilities of new gear. When I got my first full-time job aged 18 I phoned them up and placed a big order for gear, all of which I paid for with a weekly payment book. How times have changed!
In fact that gear was to last for a very long time - 26 years in fact and I still have most of it in my garage. But in order to step up as a match fisher I finally had to replace it, and with a little sadness. My old kit list is an exercise in angling history and many of those my age will nod knowingly from their own experiences.
For years I sat on the old Shakespeare seatbox. I think it was indestructible. Even with two side trays it still only consisted of four parts. I don't think there has ever been a seatbox with more storage space. I also got hold of a Shakespeare Omni pole, 8m and all glass. It weighed a ton and lasted about a year. Rods were a Normark Silver Medallion, which served me faultlessly (even for Pike!), an ABU wand, Daiwa and Mitchell Match reels (which was heavy even back then), Steadfast nets and Nash bags. Like everyone I had stacks of Drennan hooks, feedlinks and Maxima line.
All this was used faithfully for years, right up until May this year when I had its last outing - a fitting catch of over 100 pounds of bream from Gold Valley. The whole collection is still sitting in the garage and I can't bring myself to get rid of any of it.
Hopeful
The Hopeful Match Fisherman - Getting Going
The Hopeful Match Fisherman
So off we go with a new blog. I'm delighted if anyone wishes to read my ramblings, and any comments will be very well received.
I am a fisherman (or angler if you like) and have been for 40 of my 44 years so far. At times I've been keen to the point of obsession, and at other times just very interested. I grew up on the River Thames in Kingston and fishing a few of the lakes at Bushy Park or Old Bury Hill. Although at times I've toyed with specimen hunting (most notably for barbel) I'm not really single minded enough to concentrate on one species or chase a certain weight for a single fish. I watched with interest as the carp-boom got going in the 1980s but it never felt like it was for me.
In a recent interview the great matchman and England team manager Mark Downes said, when asked about his biggest fish, 'I'm not sure and I don't care really, a carp I think about 20 pounds'. His point describes me well - I'm about lots of fish, not always large mind you, but lots in a single session! The draw of fishing for me is about working the piece of water in from of me to get the most from it. Be that river of lake I am looking to master the fish not once or twice, but tens or even hundred of times. Drawing the fish in and keeping them catchable in one place is a skill, and my fishing life is spent trying to do that at any time in the year, and in many different and diverse places.
This is why I am moving towards match fishing because that is what ever match fisherman is trying to do, just better than all the others. I would much rather catch 10 pounds of dace than a single 20 carp, and by the way, the dace are very much more difficult to catch!
I'm not new to match fishing mind you, I was once in a club (Epsom and District) 20 odd years ago, and I would also fish opens on the Thames and Kingston and Molesey, often on summer evenings. I didn't get far, and of course I ended up putting more into work, girlfriend, getting married and furthering my IT career. Fishing was just an occasional thing in those days.
So what has changed that now at 44 years old I'm finally getting round to starting my open match fishing career? Well it's not that easy to say really. But one main thing is that over the last few years I have been a very keen scuba diver. In fact I'm well qualified in the sport! But the problem has been that it's an unreliable pass time. You can't just go diving anywhere you like and at any time. Weather and tides determine everything and that makes it a hit and miss affair. I just get tired of planning diving only to find it's called off and I'm stuck at home again. I need something more accessible and predictable.
Also was the comment from my wife back in February who said 'what is the point of that direct debit for a fishing license? You never go anyway.' That stung me a bit actually and I realized that something which has given me so much pleasure in the past had been hardly touched. In fact in the last four years, two of them I didn't even go fishing once!
So this is me returning the old sport I love and now with new impetus! I feel like an excited kid again.
Hopeful
So off we go with a new blog. I'm delighted if anyone wishes to read my ramblings, and any comments will be very well received.
I am a fisherman (or angler if you like) and have been for 40 of my 44 years so far. At times I've been keen to the point of obsession, and at other times just very interested. I grew up on the River Thames in Kingston and fishing a few of the lakes at Bushy Park or Old Bury Hill. Although at times I've toyed with specimen hunting (most notably for barbel) I'm not really single minded enough to concentrate on one species or chase a certain weight for a single fish. I watched with interest as the carp-boom got going in the 1980s but it never felt like it was for me.
In a recent interview the great matchman and England team manager Mark Downes said, when asked about his biggest fish, 'I'm not sure and I don't care really, a carp I think about 20 pounds'. His point describes me well - I'm about lots of fish, not always large mind you, but lots in a single session! The draw of fishing for me is about working the piece of water in from of me to get the most from it. Be that river of lake I am looking to master the fish not once or twice, but tens or even hundred of times. Drawing the fish in and keeping them catchable in one place is a skill, and my fishing life is spent trying to do that at any time in the year, and in many different and diverse places.
This is why I am moving towards match fishing because that is what ever match fisherman is trying to do, just better than all the others. I would much rather catch 10 pounds of dace than a single 20 carp, and by the way, the dace are very much more difficult to catch!
I'm not new to match fishing mind you, I was once in a club (Epsom and District) 20 odd years ago, and I would also fish opens on the Thames and Kingston and Molesey, often on summer evenings. I didn't get far, and of course I ended up putting more into work, girlfriend, getting married and furthering my IT career. Fishing was just an occasional thing in those days.
So what has changed that now at 44 years old I'm finally getting round to starting my open match fishing career? Well it's not that easy to say really. But one main thing is that over the last few years I have been a very keen scuba diver. In fact I'm well qualified in the sport! But the problem has been that it's an unreliable pass time. You can't just go diving anywhere you like and at any time. Weather and tides determine everything and that makes it a hit and miss affair. I just get tired of planning diving only to find it's called off and I'm stuck at home again. I need something more accessible and predictable.
Also was the comment from my wife back in February who said 'what is the point of that direct debit for a fishing license? You never go anyway.' That stung me a bit actually and I realized that something which has given me so much pleasure in the past had been hardly touched. In fact in the last four years, two of them I didn't even go fishing once!
So this is me returning the old sport I love and now with new impetus! I feel like an excited kid again.
Hopeful
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