Image Above: Some new hybrid spoon lure colours
I left the lake shortly after the workmen arrived. They had
come to fix a hole; a hole that had opened up twenty years earlier and dropped
the water level by four feet. Only last week I spoke to a fellow angler about
the leak in the lake and he said, “They (the council) would never get round to
fixing it, especially in a recession.”
It hadn’t been a great a morning. Only yesterday on a day
tip to Wales I had been stood on an almost perfect beach staring out over the
breakers and thinking about bass. This morning it was back to the puddle at
least I had hooked a pike although I lost it. By way of compensation I snagged
a lure I had lost a few weeks back. Pedro (see prev. posts) a small spoon lure was returned to me
all be it missing and eye and the varnish I had hastily applied.
I trudged home wondering whether the lake
would miraculously refill before my next visit and if the island would return
to being a true island instead a patch of raised ground surrounded by mud.
At home it was back to coating lures and more photography
for my website which seems to have been under construction for far too long.
Image Below: Nefyn Beach, North Wales
