First Cast Of 2021

What a very lucky, or jammy as we say in the UK, start to 2021. My first session of the year was at BJ's Fishery. I cast out to plumb the float, and when I reeled in, I thought I'd got snagged. Then my line spooled off, and I realised I'd hooked a fish!

There wasn't any bait on the hook, and I could tell by the way the fish was fighting I'd foul-hooked it, so did it really count? After a few attempts to slip the net under the fish, I managed to land a lovely scaled Mirror Carp. All be it a bit of a fluke!

I didn't weigh the fish, and I had a cup of tea to recover after returning it to the chilly water. Then I plumbed up again and fished red maggots until mid-afternoon, catching Roach and Ide.

"Angling is a refuge from competitiveness, from rat-racing, from status-seeking. So let it remain." Bernard Venables