#10 Finding Nemo in amongst the Monochrome Set

Thus album was mostly one of my black and white phases..

This tench is from the first day of a season, can't remember which one and it was from the Match Pit, falling to Shanus. He always used a bit of laccy band as a hair stop.

We/I must have been on chick peas cos I have  a shot of a swan with a pea skin in its gob.
Also on there that day were two very unlikely lads, Biggles and Jack Russell. That's not an impressive bend on Biggle's rod, its a swingtip. He has got a bream on though.

Brief foray on Tynevales, behind Alresford. Me and Shanus found  a neglected fyke net stuffed with very dead eels.

Was reputed to hold crucians, think this might be a hooge brown goldfish?

Nice camera work...fill the fecking frame yer tosspot. Very pretty Alresford fish.

This one is one of the originals, a real corker.

Alresford carp and The Point.

Chalk and cheese set ups, Lobkin to the left

Was also fishing Frating a lot, feck did that tractor pump make a racket, when the diesel ran out we always cheered. Some lovely fish in there as well.

This one was clearly on chick peas...

Wasn't always so warm on Frating, this was one of the coldest days I have ever experienced without snow, a blank days perching at that.

On the river and  a banker swim on  the CPOAC stretch below Wiston.

Home to Nemo. Not obvious why called Nemo here.

On this flank though....

Caught it twice, 3.14 then another day  3,12, perhaps it could only swim in a circle with one pec so it lived in a circular beat... That field was notoriously muddy with Ski-tex  weighing about 25 kg on each foot at the end of a day.

Pretty little Pump Pit (live bait) roach

Lord Lite, then of Alresford with a couple from No 1. He also put some bait in really early that year for some Jan/Feb tench. The Walkman Years.

Wormingford Bridge

And some Portuguese mullet from Lagos harbour. Very tasty too.