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FREE LINE / FIELD JOURNAL
Night-time common
STEVE CARTWRIGHT
Pawprint, 28lb
FIELD NOTES
Nothing happens overnight, and I pack up early next day and head home
for a kip and look forward to my nightshift that night. Most of my fishing
tends to be single overnighters. It can be hard work sometimes getting
the right swim or right area, but it s swings and roundabouts.
I am very relaxed with my fishing gone are the days when I used to
beat myself up if blanked etc. Fortunately the blanks are seldom, but they
do happen.
Ten days later, and Friday morning comes around. I work Sunday to
Thursday night at the moment I say I work, but you know, office jockey.
Anyway, I say, right, I am leaving at 5am, as I need to get to the lake. They
know I fish, as I bore them all the time. We say our fond farewells, and I
am off to where I have been dying to get to for the last ten days. I get in
the car park, and there are only a couple on. I have a chat with Rick who
is fishing the car park end, trying to get the info out of him, but like me,
he tells you what you want to hear, so I make my way to other end of the
lake, two swims down from where was ten days previously.
I only have 24 hours; I d had no sleep since the day before, but I knew it
would be a no-brainer sleep-wise. The 70-yard chuck from the previous
session was now a mere 55ft chuck. It has some nice weed there, and this
was the area I baited up. I do use quite a bit of bait if I am honest; it is an
expensive hobby, but it is the bait that makes things happen.
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