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FREE LINE / FIELD JOURNAL
STEVE CARTWRIGHT
Twigs float - supplied photograph
FIELD NOTES
I had used it the day before, so it had to be somewhere, but no, it wasn t,
so I constructed a makeshift one. I have to say I was very happy with the
resulting vision I had made, and I cast it out. To be honest, it was next to
useless, but you have to try at least, right? Yes I really do these daft things.
Fish were still cruising, and I was getting annoyed with myself as to where
I had put this controller float. I emptied the bivvy twice and had bags and
buckets everywhere!
There was a eureka moment as I saw that I had a small marker float in my
tackle box. That will do it! Ok, it was the brightest orange that orange could
get, but that will do, surely? Out it goes, and I had to put my sunglasses on,
as the float was brighter than the sun. A couple of fish passed by the float,
and I swear if fish had teeth, they would have been smiling at it going past,
but I stuck with it.
The geese were hammering the freebies, so I decided to just cast the single
whittled-down ASM pop-up I was using to imitate the dog biscuits. After
a good two hours, I cast one out, right over towards the far margin. As the
float settled and the bait sat nicely a foot or so from the float, a huge pair
of lips came up, and bang we are in!
It was a battle royale, and I had to get into the lake to land the fish.
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