Roll on autumn..

I can't be the only one who's sick of it. Hardly had a proper summer, weather's done its best to scupper any decent fishing, round here at least. I took Aidan out for an ice cream at lunchtime, the sea looks more like January than August and I really wouldn't be surprised to see a few codling if anybody can be bothered to fish for them.

I'll probably have a go next week if I can rustle up any enthusiasm. PK did say, half in jest I reckon, that he might have a fling this Friday if the wind eased. I can't join him as I'm at work and busy over the weekend, if he goes don't be surprised if the old fox prises one or two out. Probably because I'm a sad, daft or a combination of both, I've reproduced below a joke I was emailed, as an engineer it tickled me:

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place." So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah right, like there are any Lawyers in heaven"

Right, I'm off to do some house bits before paid work takes over, will somebody go and catch a few fish please, I think we all need a pick me up.

A local rod fished Happisburgh way today and had a handful of bass and codling with a few flounders thrown in, cracking conditions at the minute and there'll be a few this weekend if the forecast is anything like right. Get some worms ordered and get out there! H.