Geoff's Rants

Floods floods and more floods. I reckon somebody up there wants to drown us all. When there is that much water and you cannot find a decent place to fish it's time to take up bloody tiddley winks. Having said that what a fabulous back up water the Shannon Erne link has now become. Anywhere you fish it will guarantee almost a bite every chuck. Fished it today for a couple of hours with my old mate Martin Blacow and we both had around 60 fish in less than three hours. I was talking to John Astell yesterday and heaven forbid last week he was approached by would you believe it, a FISHERIES OFFICER asking if he had seen anything suspicious taking place. I could have thought up a 1001 daft answers for that one but John asked him to elaborate. He also made the point that it was the first time in 30 years that John had met a Fisheries Officer on the bank. The chap asked John if he had seen anybody killing fish recently and John said he had witnessed it but not of late. My advice to the fisheries officer is to keep looking and keep at it until next spring when like the daffodils the perpetrators will all be out in force again. Like the leaves on the trees they tend to go out of view in winter. Hope the fisheries officers don't do likewise.