After a great start to the season it has all pretty much turned to shit over the last couple of days.
Firstly as I tried to change spools on my reel the spool wouldn’t go on the spindle, a quick look revealed that the bearing had fallen to pieces so I re-fitted the spool holding the sinking line, the bearing in that now sounds and feels like it has a handful of sand in it (which it didn’t of course) so back to the shop they went.
I only purchased the reel and spare spool in march and for about 5 months since then the season has been closed so it has had very little use.
I was beginning to suffer withdrawal symptoms so I grabbed my old reels and headed off to my favourite spot on the Shag River. It was warm, calm, a little overcast and the fish were everywhere, In the first pool I got a shot at two quite good looking browns but ended up spooking both of them,
In the second pool there was an absolutely cracking brown so I very carefully got a cast away, nothing doing, it was then that I decided to try a second cast and as I back cast the fly hooked in a bush down the bank a little from where I was standing and it looked like the tip section had come off but no… The bloody rod had broken.
My nice new rod, purchased at the same time as the reels and used only a couple of dozen times is now buggered… Geeez I bet the rest of the season is going to be awesome.
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