I am pleased to say my casting is much improved. My ability to catch trout though, isn’t. I should not be too hard on myself really. I’m casting further and more consistently and I actually hooked a couple of trout but both managed to wriggle free whilst I played them in.
Of course ‘JR Hartley’ blithely caught a brace yet again. He even had the temerity to put the second one back so that he could ‘fish on’.
Not to be outdone though I did land something quite a bit more unusual: a Crayfish.
The advice from the trout pond owner was ‘If you manage to land one, stamp on it’.
Well I wasn’t so enamoured with this approach so being the big softie I am, I let her scurry back into the pond.
Editors note:
I have researched this further and have since found a minefield of byelaws protecting the English Crayfish with one hand and savagely curtailing the all non native Crayfish with the other. My advice if you see one is simply ‘run away’…which shouldn't be too difficult as they are quite ugly.
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