I'm surprised this purchase for the Jimny took so long, you see as someone who designs components for car interiors (most recent Polestar 5) and also gets involved in the very early stages of a cars design, why Suzuki thought to position the cupholder in the Jimny is such an awkward position to use is beyond me.
Maybe those that attended the ergonomic buck reviews had hypermobility syndrome or relaxed with yoga in the evenings, because they are more flexible than me for sure. You see you have to reach behind from your seated position with a contorted arm to position the cup in the cupholder, and to compound the issue you are placing it blind.
From this view the cupholder is actually behind the handbrake, where as this Chinese special fits in-between the 4x4 selector and the main gear stick so the cup can be not only seen in plain sight but easily placed as well without really looking. I could have designed one myself I suppose but for £7 including p&p FROM CHINA FFS I couldn't even get one 3D printed for that !!!
Anyway a really short session this as not only had I managed to sleep longer than expected but I completely forgot I had a curfew time.
So the stretch of convenience was about the best place really to try and get a quick bite and the fishing Gods must have been looking down on me, because the first swim I had a 3lb chub in the net within 5 minutes or so.
It was quite a turbulent swim but it's a deeper swim here and once the bread flake has settled on the bottom and starts fluttering about in the bottom it's a visual bait that at first light must be very attractive to the chub.
I thought it was the start of more to come but nope, 5 or 6 swims, even trotting for half an hour that was the only bite I had in the 2.5 hours I was there. I even tried a couple of swims I'd not tried in ages, one complete with a fallen tree that is now blocking much of it.
The water temperature was on the way up which is encouraging now 4.4 degrees, but it was clear that even the smaller fish were not really mulling about either. The ever reliable chub coming to the rescue though thankfully and at least I didn't blank again which has been the norm of late.
At least the fish are probably used to their new structure now as it fell a few months ago now. Tell that to the fish that did call this pound their home when we went for a nose yesterday. This stretch of canal has been drained in Stratford-upon-Avon to allow for a replacement set of lock gates to be installed as part of a £50m project.The work along the Stratford Canal near Maidenhead Road at Lock 53 is being carried out by The Canal & River Trust and is due to be completed by the end of February.
The specialist carpenters based in Bradley had hand-crafted new gates from solid oak, and the work is being undertaken during winter when, according to the trust, the canal has less boating activity. To be fair it was frozen above and below this pound, probably a good time to do it.
I assume MEM were commissioned to capture and safelyrelocate any fish held between the locks before drain down?
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I thought of to be fair !!! most likely to have been sold off and added to their Xmas party fund.
DeleteThey'll certainly re locate them. Not in the canal when any Tom, Dick or Harry can catch them though.
DeleteThink you might be very much correct on that one !!
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