Fishing Can Be Dangerous!

This month did not start well, and that's an understatement! On 1 May, with the day off, I decided to fish for some Spring Carp on legered bait at Woodrows.

After a few hours on the Earl water, my line screamed away, so I struck into what felt like a nice fish. The thing was, as I did so, sitting on the ground, I lost my balance and my right elbow went into my right upper leg, and I heard a snap.

At first I thought I had broken my rod, then realised my right foot was tilted over to the left; yes, I had broken my right femur. My left foot was under my right knee with nothing supporting my right upper leg, so the weight of my upper body as I lost my balance had snapped the bone.

To cut a long story short, I spent four days in hospital and, after having a plate fitted to fix the break, was allowed home. As I can’t feel that part of my leg, I was lucky in respect of the pain but had to take it easy for the first few weeks and couldn’t drive. Of course I lost the fish as I was somewhat distracted and the fish came off when the line went slack.

On a brighter note, just a few weeks later, after getting cabin fever and climbing the walls at home, on 22 May I carefully fished on a nice warm day at Springwood, and was rewarded with 10-plus Roach and two Carp around 4lb.

Finally, this eventful month, I took my nephew fishing, and we enjoyed float-fishing at Kilburn Lake and landed some nice Carp.