Here we go again with another let off for the country’s maggots which are seemingly being spared a cold drowning as maggot drowners boycott the water, even if it is not frozen over. I have sometimes wondered what happens at the fishing tackle shop at times like these when the accumulation of bait must start to get critical, as must the pong. Of course nobody is going to get their bait and tackle out unless they are a) crazy b) foolhardy or c) trousering huge amounts of money to do so. And anyway, even if any of those scenarios were true, the possibility of any fish feeding in these conditions is remote in the extreme.
The snow might mean that instead of going out into the country with bait and tackle, that people put the big outdoor kit on and pack the camera instead and make the most of the beautiful scenes because despite the devastation to travel, when you get beyond that it is stunning out there. Anywhere with a tree is going to look like it should be on a picture postcard. However, there is a disadvantage, because the accumulation of the snow has caused the buddleia on my drive to snap which is very irritating.
I assume that the only trade being done at the fishing tackle shop this week will be for people shopping for gifts for fisherman friends and family so that is probably the best bit of what at any other month of the year would lead to bleak trading indeed. If it was me and it was not Christmas week, I would either be staying at home or pulling on some sturdy boots, grabbing the camera and my little lad and getting out into the Black Country hills.
Another upside of going out into the countryside of course is that there is always the chance of finding a new place to dangle the tackle, either a pond or lake that had hitherto avoided notice or a arm of a river that might offer a fun day’s sport. We do not have many rivers in the immediate vicinity near here, though the Severn Valley is half an hour away, but there are lots of canals and a walk along the towpath could be good if a location can be discovered to take the bait and tackle in more temperate times.
We are being led to believe that this weather is peculiar but is it? This is what winters was what we expected it to be like when I was a youngster, though not necessarily in the approach to Christmas, but it was usual to anticipate it in January and February and these were the months when expeditions with bait and tackle were out of the question, and with the end of the season looming anyway, from December to June I would very rarely want to go angling and find something different, preferably warmer, to do instead. And this is what we should be doing; work off the fat gathered over the advent period, get out and find somewhere fresh to go when fishing becomes available again.
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