RBTraditional wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 3:33 pm
Izaak, Walker, Venables, Sherringham et al... were looking down upon you and shaking their heads with distain...I’d wait a couple of weeks (16th) until venturing out again if I were you.....
An interesting, if lighthearted point! I went many years without fishing in "the close season", and I'm still far from a 12-months-a-year angler. Some years I fish in the Spring, some years I don't, but I never feel like the season is properly open until I've had my Opening Day. However, in recent years, the effort of planning for the one big day has so often detracted from the enjoyment of it, to the extent that I'd decided that last year was to have been my last "Sixteenth". The fact that I'm primarily a stillwater angler has also made it much harder even to find somewhere where I can have a proper Opening Day.
This year, though, I just decided I wanted to go fishing, so I asked the owner's permission, chucked some gear together, went out and fished for four hours, saw a huge tench roll, caught nothing, came home and had a sleep. No fixed time to start or finish, no complex logistics, didn't matter that I blanked or came home early, or even whether I went at all, and it honestly felt like a weight off my mind. Mind you, I'm still suffering that head-spinning afternoon daze that tells me I got up in the middle of the night and I can't do that like I used to!
