Calling Lady Anglers!!

Hello Ladies!

This is an open invitation asking any other anglers’ wives to come along and submit a guest post to me, for publication on my blog. There must be a few of you out there who have something to say/write, so why not do it here, on an already established blog.

I want to hear your views on anything fishing-related, including how you feel about your hubby’s hobby – whether it’s positive or negative; whether you fish or not; whether you’d secretly like to learn or have a go at fishing; anything you’d like to say…

So come on, leave me a comment, send me an email: admin@reels-on-wheels.org  Get in touch and have your say!

Filing is fun…. (NOT)

Filing is soooooooooooo boring. Three hours spent filing yesterday felt like a day in a mind-funk. How people can do that for a living beats me! I also managed to lose a month’s paperwork, but compared to a year’s papers neatly stored, I’m sure I’ll cope with finding that today.

On the fishing front, my man is camped out at The Manderson Trust trying to rid their No. 5 Lake of a rogue catfish – about 5 feet long – which in all probability weighs in excess of 70lbs. It has devastated the lake’s 1500 head of bream and we think it has a ‘mild’ case of “Rod Rage” where it has been hooked frequently, but never been landed.

After sitting there since Sunday, I asked Nick if he was bored and he said No! He says it’s a challenge… They have been devising strategies and tactics over the past 2 days and trying out all sorts of elaborate rigs, etc. I am very confident that if he can only hook it, he will land it. He is a very experienced Cat-man! The last Wels he landed (with my help!), weighed 165lbs, so I’m pretty certain this one’ll be just as much fun!

Speaking of beasties… look what we had to deal with over the weekend: An ELF in the bathroom and slugs bonking in the garden – not much point gardening when they’re reproducing on my lawn, is there? (Mind, that’s an assumption as I’m no biologist…)

   Yuck! Big isn’t it? About 4″ long (10cm).

And the slugs were as thick as my middle finger… ewwwwwww!

Family Fish-In!!

We had a lot of fun today – fishing!! DD made us get up at stupid o’clock to go to ElDorado where she’d caught loads the first time she fished with a pole (whip!); we got there early, tackled up and she went to sleep in the Bus till I woke her at 9am!! Alright for some, innit?!!

She set up and started fishing but didn’t get instant bites, like the previous time and all I could hear (being in the next swim, it was hard NOT to hear her) was, “Oh dear, my swim is dead, my fish are dead, my float is dead…” Moan, moan, moan! Like a good fishing Mum, I did my best to encourage her and she did try (my patience, bless her!), so I went over and plumbed the depth where she was fishing… when I adjusted her float, she remained unconvinced – until she caught the first orfe-let!!

I think maybe she thinks I’m a ‘proper angler’ now, because I DO know what I’m doing!! Anyway she proceeded to fish for the next 4 hours, almost without a break and managed to catch 100 fish!! Okay, they were all small – around 1-2oz – but she stuck at it and thoroughly enjoyed herself… Here are a few pics of her in sequence as she chooses the best maggots for the job; baits up; watches her float diligently; unhooks her fish carefully and then poses for the camera!

     To be perfectly honest, apart from the occasional ‘Barbie’ squeal when one hit her in the face on the way in (*grins*), she was a complete star and we were both extremely proud of the way she fished – bearing in mind she’s only fished properly twice this year!

I had a lovely 8lber on my new carp rod, which was given to me as a ‘first’ carp rod of my own, by Claire and Julz (from reels on Wheels!) and my baitrunner and bite alarm – also pressies from them, were fab! I’ll put my pic up tomorrow – wouldn’t want to steal DD’s thunder now, would I?