"Beware lending your gear to a friend for their first attempt with lures."

I know what you mean but telling my son to sod off when I was supposed to be
teaching him would be a bit harsh and I did have the thought he may well be
the one with the power of attorney not so far off in my life.VBG

Sunday did see a dramatic change in the weather which I did wonder would be
a factor.

I thought we would loose some tackle but not so much to trees as we were
fishing open water. It was basically a dam wall we were fishing from and
always has been snaggy with boulders and rocks. I got it out a few times and
actually had the nose of the weighted head show the scratches that only
stone could have put on it.

Seems I did catch something though as this morning I have the worst head
cold ever, final victory to the lake me thinks.

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Gandalf

"Derek Moody" wrote in message
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In article , Gandalf
wrote:

However my son snagged up a few times and lost two of my traces and my
new
"chubby shad"

Something we tend to forget is how those new to them lose so many lures.
Most of us buy half a dozen new ones before a *special* trip, say the week
away or the trip to the expensive, renowned water - but then we keep using
the same lures until the next such trip a year later...

Beware lending your gear to a friend for their first attempt with lures.

With experience it's usually possible to extract even a well armed lure
from a far-bank branch or a surf-lashed rock - but the "I've never caught
a
fish on a spinner before" guest promptly loses lures to the value of 50
quid
before you even notice how he's getting hung up :-(

Lure fishing is actually very cheap when you get past the losing one lure
in
ten trips level...

Not a single bite all day and we tried everything, smelt and bluies
ledgerd,
bunged and even sink and drawn. Spinners, plugs and soft lures galore but
nothing. The only fish had out of about 10 anglers was a foul hooked
perch
on a spinner, right through the tail.

The big weather change will have put them down. We needed it and it will
have done the rivers no end of good but it'll be a week before I'd expect
the pike to feed again.

Best of all was that I was given two cheep little lures by three kids,
they

day they gave me these lure to say thank you which I think is so unusual
these days unfortunately.

Aw, there are a few decent kids around then. Well done them.

So it is not necessary to catch fish to have a good day me thinks.
However I
would have like to have caught one and not lost a lure I was really
looking
forward to using some day.VBG

g Console yourself: the lure -we- think looks really good is rarely the
one the fish think looks really good.

Cheerio,

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