I intend to spend the day, or the best part of it fishing! It has been six months since I last fished after taking it up last summer to help alleviate work stress. Saying that, I have fantasised nightly about fishing as a method of getting to sleep. Beats counting sheep.
About 50ft from our door is a small lake, or a large pond. In the summer months you can see the fish clearly swimming around, including large carp. These carp are my intended quarry today. I caught an 8 lb one last year, it took me 20 minutes to get it in the net. It was that experience that left me hooked.
Here's a nice fish http://www.ebrocatncarp.com/images/karens-30lb.jpg
The carp are a wily, clever fish, that have historically had fisherman spending hours hunting them down, and coming up with all methods to try and catch them. Its certainly not easy!
I hope when I come to the blog later I have a nice photo and a big smile on. However, it could more than likely be a tale of the one that got away.
As an ex veggie and a general fan of all things non violent, I'm still wrestling with fishing guilt. I have basically put the feelings of the fish to one side in favour of my own. Its entertainment at the end of the day, and I'm not sure I can justify dragging a fish half way across a pond with a super sharp piece of metal in its lip, just so I have something to do. Anyway. I'm gonna put the guilt to one side.
Despite the name of the thread, I'm not doing worms or maggots, I'll limit my environmental impact to sweetcorn, pork luncheon meat and bread. What a joyful lunch for a fish!
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