I'd still managed to get out every few days however which considering how pants the weather has been and the amount of holidays I'd taken this year, oh and the daily work drudgery still some decent banktime I suppose.
A memorable capture was this lovely 8lb 9oz canal Zander that fought like a demon and also a few new species caught during a holiday to Lanzarote back in February and another species from the UK seas when I caught a bull huss from Westward Ho! in November. A rather forgettable year really, oh well, I'm hoping 2025 will bring me some good fortune, oh and bring us all a better year outside the world of fishing.
Targets for the New Year well Barbara the barbel is certainly one of them, but also some big canal roach, Zander obviously and more trotting on the Wye in the summer. I'm also going to have a rethink on the club tickets I have and maybe some shuffling about and out with the old and in with the new. The rivers haven't really been that conducive to trotting bread flake on the Avon so I'm hoping in 2025 we have more settled conditions than we have had this year.Anyway see you all on the other side !!
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Oh and it will be the 15th year of Piscatorial Quagswagging WTF !!! where does the time go !!
Tight Lines for 2025 Blog Readers
Keep it up Mick
ReplyDeleteWill Do !!
DeleteReally has been a tough year’s fishing. Best of luck for 2025 - look forward to the reports
ReplyDeleteCheers Brian, hope you have a good year
DeleteArise Sir Sadiq 🤮🤦🏻♂️
ReplyDeleteThose fishing sessions keeping me sane in this mad world we live in 🙈
DeleteHappy New Year Mick, roll on the close season because i've met the Jimny but not the man.
ReplyDelete👍 really looking forward to fishing the canals again
DeleteHappy New Year and congrats on 15 years :)
ReplyDeleteCheers !! look forward to your bass exploits of 2025 !!
DeleteBest wishes for 2025
ReplyDeleteCheers Gale, hopefully try and meet up sometime this year 😀
DeleteBest of "British" Mick for 2025....twenty-five years have passed since millennium night...where has that gone. Good luck on the bank and have you mustered a plan to track down that big W.A Barbel? Mild conditions will get her moving around a fair bit, could have your name on it.
ReplyDeleteCheers James and you !! hopefully you can get out on the bank more and tick some more rivers off from your challenge. But yes Barbara the barbel is a target when the conditions improve. 😀
DeleteI did see you eluded to her in the post, sure if that's her holding area there will be others and that's why its so important to try and find these areas in the autumn before the floods come and the water dirties up, you will catch her and the accompanying pack that will no doubt have half a dozen sentries, some of which may also be 9-12lbs themselves. I will watch with interest!
DeleteAs for my angling, I will try my best to fish the conditions, once I am doing that I fancy my chances to get one or two more rivers knocked off before the dreaded March 15th comes.