Chris Yates Bank Tramp
- J.T
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Re: Chris Yates Bank Tramp
Wouldn't catch me sleeping on the floor like that knowing how big the rats get at Redmire!!!
"piscator non solum piscatur"
- Dave Burr
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Re: Chris Yates Bank Tramp
I use a bivvy or 'day' shelter but always leave the front door wide open. I tried sleeping in the open in France on what promised to be a dry night. It wasn't. I got soaked and bitten more than sixty times by some nocturnal insect monstrosity.
- MGs
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Re: Chris Yates Bank Tramp
Last time I went night fishing, I slept on the ground in a sleeping bag for a couple of hours (no line in the water at the time). Not too bad. Just took the edge off. I needed it. A 3 day 2 night session. Can't be bothered with anything like that these days
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- Carp Artist
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Re: Chris Yates Bank Tramp
I set up my canvas bivvy in winter conditions tucked back in the swim, but set up an umbrella and usually stay underneath it on my old bed chair, watching the stars, listening to the sounds of the night taking it all in. As Yatesy would say "Earthing the current"
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher