The Climate Is Giving Maggot Drowners The Chance To Get Out And Find Fresh Destinations

Here we go again with another let off for the country’s maggots which are seemingly being spared a freezing drowning as fishers avoid the water, even where it is not frozen over. I have sometimes wondered what happens at the fishing tackle shop at times like these when the build up of bait must begin to get critical, as must the smell. Naturally nobody is going to get their bait and tackle out unless they are a) lunatics b) very dedicated or c) being paid immense amounts of money to do so. And besides, even if any of those scenarios were applicable, the possibility of any fish feeding in these conditions is extremely remove.

The snow could mean that instead of stepping out into the country with bait and tackle, that people get the serious outdoor gear on and pack the camera instead and get the best of the wonderful scenes because despite the embuggerence to travel, if you get on from that it is awesome out there. Anywhere there is a tree will look like it ought to be on a picture postcard. However, there is a problem, because the amount of the snow has caused the buddleia on my drive to break which is very maddening.

I reckon that the only shopping being done at the fishing tackle shop this week is going to be for people shopping for prezzies for fisherman chums and family so that is probably the upside of what at any other season of the year would lead to bleak trading indeed. If it was me and it was not Christmas week, I’d either be firmly at home or donning some sturdy boots, taking the camera and my little lad and getting out into the Black Country hills.

Another advantage of venturing out into the countryside of course is that there is always the likelihood of uncovering a new location to dangle the tackle, maybe a pond or lake that had hitherto escaped notice or a branch of a river that may offer a good day’s sport. We don’t have many rivers in the immediate district close by here, though the Severn Valley is thirty minutes away, but there are many canals and a walk down the towpath could be instructive if a spot can be discovered to take the bait and tackle in more clement times.

We are being told that this cold snap is peculiar but is it? This is what the winter used to be like when I was a boy, though not usually in the approach to xmas, but it was usual to expect it in January and February and these were the times when days out with bait and tackle were out of the question, and with the end of the season coming anyway, from December to June I would very rarely decide to go tackle dangling and find something else, preferably warmer, to do instead. And this is what we should be doing; exercise off the fat accumulated over the xmas season, get out and look for somewhere fresh to go when fishing becomes an option again.

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