EDP REPORTS

Or that's how it seems. A few just offshore, nothing of note from the beaches just tings and flats and that about sums the winter season up. There's always hope for a spring run and those fish that are just offshore could turn up in casting range at any time.

Rumours abounded of my old mate selling his kit. I had a chat with him today, the way his golf is going it's more likely that the clubs get binned before the rods and reels. Anyway it's not really worth selling your kit is it? You rarely get its value, you might as well keep it, at least you can go then when there are a few fish!

Geno's been fishing coarse matches and hasn't had it all his own way. He was telling me about a silver fish match he managed 10lb odd in for nowhere though his swim was wrecked by a couple carp that he managed to land on his roach kit, one a double and the other conservatively estimated at 15lb, not bad in January, if you added up all his beach catches you'd probably have to go backa couple of years to total 35lb!

I'm thinking about the spring now the nights are drawing out. I fancy another few days away with the boys, I'm not sure what they're up to. I fancy Wales for a change but I could get talked into going anywhere.

Aitch