I have managed to fit in a quick day session, the weather supposed to be overcast and a chance of rain, I was feeling very confident.
However, as you can see that’s not quite the case! Oh well, better than being at home and doing the washing or house work.
Anyway, I have gone back onto the Airfield Lake, as it closes for Winter at the end of October. I have about two weeks left on here, unfortunately I can only do mostly days as the wife is away on business for a week.
There are a few on here as I would have expected, so I settled for a quiet bay at the back of the wind where I had spotted some fish along the tree line.
Less hope they don’t stay there.
The other rod I am using as a bit of a roving rod, to see if I can pick up the odd fish that way.
I am using a bag full of Polony meat chopped up.
The other rod is on the tree line, it has a poloni pop up with a small bag filled with micro pellets which have been soaking for some week’s.
I don’t think the weather is in my favour today and would you believe it 15 minutes before I am due to leave, the heavens open.
With not a bleep, I was on my way back to collect the kid’s.
I would like to give a brief snap shot of my life and introduce myself;
My name is Richard Handel and was born in 1965 in Suffolk. I have worked as a UK Operation & Intermodule Manager for a shipping company. I live in Hampshire now and am married with 2 young children, both girls so I am a bit outnumbered even the cat is a girl!
I have been fishing since I was about 7 years old. I started on small local rivers in Suffolk, then moved onto gravel pits and then carp fishing. My personal best is a 39.08 mirror, over recent years I have started river fishing again, on the Hampshire Avon, this is a nice break from the carp lakes.
My life has turned a big corner this year, the company I was working for relocated their Operation centre to Estonia. I was offered a job at the head office in London. This would have meant a 5 day commute and working in Stratford. As a family, we did not fancy this, as I would hardly spend any time with the children (and the Mrs). So after 22.5 years, I was given a nice redundancy package and with my wife is working full time. I became the house husband.
This has meant a complete turn around in my fishing, as I can pick and choose when I go. I have found a splendid new syndicate to fish this year, which includes 5 lakes and some 8 miles of river with only 150 members. It's an amazing change to the way I am able to fish.
I am now trying to start my own tackle business and make a bit of a name for myself in the world of fishing, as I have retired from real work.
Richard
UK Carp & Coarse Fishing 