I watched old Luke the 'Nuke' Littler absolutely demolish Raymond van Barneveld in the darts last night, what a performance, my twin brother was in Amsterdam watching the same match in a pub that gave appreciation of the win for Litter no matter who you wanted to win.
I really haven't a player like him to be honest, what a talent, but a short dip in to social media the negative comments about him and his family really were already there to see, what the heck is up with some people !!
I wish him all the success for the test of the competition and in the future, and considering he is only 16, I think it will be only a matter of time till he wins the PDC world championship, In all my years watching darts I don't think I've seen a player like him, well maybe Michael van Gerwen the exception.
Being only 16 I'm sure helps with his confidence and competitive darts is all confidence at the end of the day. Now talking of confidence with heavy rain overnight the local rivers are unfishable again I decided to venture over the Hallowed to at least try and get a bite from a predator.
My PB Pike of 17lb's and 8 oz's came from this canal and almost exactly 2 years ago, and the Hallowed is home to my PB zander of 11lb's and 8 oz's, and the likeminded have caught both Pike and Zander far bigger than mine too.
Anyway I didn't have much time so I hotfooted it to the swim when I caught both of my PB's from and got fishing with 2 deadbaits. Now this canal is hardly fished down here because well it's a good 15 minutes walk from the parking area and with the towpath as muddy as everywhere else, not exactly an easy task.
It usually throws up bites quite quick here especially if there is no boat movement, but I gave it a good hour and forty odd minutes or so before heading off on the rove.
I tried another couple of areas with the same result to headed off to the 2nd banker swim, not this was an area of extensive cover, in-fact easily the thickest I know of on this stretch, however sadly the cover is no more. It's been removed almost in its entirety so those predators that were here have now gone to another area of sanctuary.
I crossed my fingers and toes but after half an hour without even a nibble I decided to head down to a moored boat and give that a go fishing tight to the hull. I've had zander here before but nothing big but all I wanted was a bite but again nothing doing here whatsoever either.
This wasn't going well at all !!!!
After netting a pole anglers skimmer bream for him as he hooked a fish that needed a landing net, before setting up his own just on-route to here, that was the only fish action I got 🙈, the canal was dead for me sadly.
So no fish for the last session of 2023 and a stinky landing net to rub it in !! damn it
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