Pike fishing is in the air! There is a chill in the mornings and evenings and the leaves on the trees are starting to turn. Autumn has arrived and that can mean only one thing; time to venture to the river in search of things with teeth!
My weir permit has arrived, new line on reels, traces made and some fab-looking new Storm Perch to try. Sent from America by
Paulos of
Shark Blog - thank you - can't wait to get them wet.
One problem with traveling to and from the venues by bike is transporting a bucket around. I've tried hanging it on the handle bars, where it bumps my knee every turn of the peddles. And I smashed the last one when it dropped off onto the concrete train platform.
But the local counsel have just delivered this food recycling container - between us, the cat, foxes and wormery it's never going to get used - perfect!
The addition of some air-holes and a pump (held on with velcro so it goes inside for transport) and it's good to go - a tackle box on the way there and back and it should hold five or six bleak livebaits for a bit of roaming.
...And I've just opened my weir permit to sign it... And it's junk mail... Agghhh... That changes tomorrows plans...
ReplyDeleteIt's here... They said it would be 2 days, turned up in 2 weeks!
DeleteI have one of them in my garage, only the other day I was wondering how I could use it for fishing instead of it sitting doing nothing. That's a great idea for it.
ReplyDeleteRight now for a battery pump off eBay......
Get the Rapala one, it sounds like an old lawnmower, really sounds like it doesn't want to start but even I haven't managed to break it!
DeleteThats a bummer Brian not getting the permit, I use one of these tubs for frozen baits as they stay frozen longer, The bucket and air pump is banned on our waters so you cant bring fish from anywhere else, You can catch livies and use them but they must be returned dead or alive before you leave the bank,
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the Toothy Criters,
,,,Paddy,,,
The permit arrived this morning - Yay!
DeleteI agree that you shouldn't transport fish between waters, but I'll catch the bait there and just use this when I'm wandering about.
Cheers