Almost Done

Well, time for The Loafer's end of year sermon. Pull up a chair, pour yourself a drink and listen to my self indulgent drivel.

Lots of local Stour trips, a couple to the Waveney and GUC at the beginning of the year to get the ball rolling.

Plenty of sessions on TBS, a three hundred and fifty acre venue very close to home. My tench campaign was a flop, unlike the bream trips which were very successful. A lovely place to fish.

Finally got stuck in to the Fens properly with several camper trips, the quality of the rudd fishing is incredible. Loads of fish to over 2lb, such a great way to start the season.

Mid summer through to autumn and I managed to find a nice quiet part of the Tidal Trent. What can you say, superb fishing not only for barbel but hybrids, silver bream, roach and bream. We had four or five three to five day trips through the summer and autumn and were never disappointed. Great social trips, lots of laughs and tremendous fishing.

Me and S had a great trip to Holland on August. I fished every morning at dawn, back to the van for breakfast, then a bike ride for provisions and a visit to a cafe and back for the evening session. Perfect.

Asp, more barbel, ide, massive silver bream, roach, the Ijssel has it all.

It's all about the places that fishing takes you to, the mates you fish with and the fire in your belly that gets the van loaded and headed for another adventure.

In a few weeks plans and dreams for 2024 will start emerging.

A big Stour chub before the end of the season , some good tench fishing somewhere, definitely asp  fishing in Holland and maybe another big tour of Europe. Oh and a really big roach. From a river ideally. 

We'll see.