Hi Folks
Wednesday 27 June
Keith and Carol arrived safe and sound on Monday after unpacking settling in lunch then it was straight down to the serious stuff, Fishing, The weather was good but the river was running very fast the conditions were not that favourable for a good fishing session however we persevered and won our true reward in both of us getting a good bag of fish, we had already decided that Tue morning we would take a leisurly sail up to Nothwich neither Keith or Carol had ever seen the river from this angle and its many interesting historic features on arriving in Northwich we were lucky to get the end mooring many boats were still moored from the weekend festival they all seemed to be awaiting time to get off the river via the Anderton lift. Carol and Noreen hit the shops Keith and I hit the fishing I am not sure why but we hit the Eels I must have caught 25 Keith the same I have never seen as many they (that is the ecologists) say that there is a shortage of eels and that they will soon become an endangered species, all I can say to them is get yourself down on the weaver it has thousands of them. Wednesday we decided to start back to Windsford staying overnight at a nice little spot were the fishing looked good with plenty of open water a nice grassy bank bordered by woodland and ideal spot by lunch the sun was scorching it was in fact too hot to fish we were baking, I have been after an Eel to top 3lb as that is my biggest on here so far so I set a rod up purely with that in mind I left it quite secure at the front of the boat as we were all on the stern when Noreens cries of woe were heard she had seen the Eel rod twitching and as nobody else was there decided to strike.
In her bewildering none fishing terms (lift it up) you guessed it she caught a 41/2lb Eel
Ok Keith landed it I netted it but in all fairness Noreen caught it, so Now I have her record to beat as well as my own. After dinner we all sat enjoying the evening air I decided to start a game of I-Spy However the rules became an entangled web of mischief, and idiotic childish behavour
One of Noreens was something beginning with TA which concluded as Tropical Attire We have no idea were it came from only to say thats how the game continued in pure lunacy.
Its now 22.00 and its only just started to cool down I expect that we will pay for today’s heat in tomorrows storms
Friday: I was right about the weather its turned again and yesterday we got very wet Again, however having Carol and Keith here for the last week has been great, Last night we went out for a celebratory dinner not celebrating their departure but the excelet week we have had travelling, fishing, and just having a good time Keith won the most fish Noreen won the biggest fish I came a good second on both accounts As we moored up yesterday we were treated to a rare sight as a Mink came swimming past (see photo) with a huge Eel in its mouth taking it back to feed its young quite a rare and spectacular sight. This morning our guests left dropping Noreen off at her dads on the way. I am left wondering how we get the boat back up the onto the canal. I have just phoned and grabbed the only free passage up the lift tomorrow but it goes at 12.10 we have to book in by 11.40 which is leaving it a bit tight we will get an early start but I am worried about the New Bridge swing bridge as coming down yesterday we only just got under it with 2 inches to spare now with the amount of rain we have just had and the North West in general the river is still rising if we have to wait for the bridge to be opened we will miss our slot on the lift so we can only hope
One thing in our favour is that we are going with the flow and the wind is NNW so I will be wind and flow assisted.
We have now a couple of weeks off before our next guests arrive just enough time for some long awaited repairs, painting and cleaning lets hope for the weather.
Speak soon Big Al
Wednesday 27 June
Keith and Carol arrived safe and sound on Monday after unpacking settling in lunch then it was straight down to the serious stuff, Fishing, The weather was good but the river was running very fast the conditions were not that favourable for a good fishing session however we persevered and won our true reward in both of us getting a good bag of fish, we had already decided that Tue morning we would take a leisurly sail up to Nothwich neither Keith or Carol had ever seen the river from this angle and its many interesting historic features on arriving in Northwich we were lucky to get the end mooring many boats were still moored from the weekend festival they all seemed to be awaiting time to get off the river via the Anderton lift. Carol and Noreen hit the shops Keith and I hit the fishing I am not sure why but we hit the Eels I must have caught 25 Keith the same I have never seen as many they (that is the ecologists) say that there is a shortage of eels and that they will soon become an endangered species, all I can say to them is get yourself down on the weaver it has thousands of them. Wednesday we decided to start back to Windsford staying overnight at a nice little spot were the fishing looked good with plenty of open water a nice grassy bank bordered by woodland and ideal spot by lunch the sun was scorching it was in fact too hot to fish we were baking, I have been after an Eel to top 3lb as that is my biggest on here so far so I set a rod up purely with that in mind I left it quite secure at the front of the boat as we were all on the stern when Noreens cries of woe were heard she had seen the Eel rod twitching and as nobody else was there decided to strike.
In her bewildering none fishing terms (lift it up) you guessed it she caught a 41/2lb Eel
Ok Keith landed it I netted it but in all fairness Noreen caught it, so Now I have her record to beat as well as my own. After dinner we all sat enjoying the evening air I decided to start a game of I-Spy However the rules became an entangled web of mischief, and idiotic childish behavour
One of Noreens was something beginning with TA which concluded as Tropical Attire We have no idea were it came from only to say thats how the game continued in pure lunacy.
Its now 22.00 and its only just started to cool down I expect that we will pay for today’s heat in tomorrows storms
Friday: I was right about the weather its turned again and yesterday we got very wet Again, however having Carol and Keith here for the last week has been great, Last night we went out for a celebratory dinner not celebrating their departure but the excelet week we have had travelling, fishing, and just having a good time Keith won the most fish Noreen won the biggest fish I came a good second on both accounts As we moored up yesterday we were treated to a rare sight as a Mink came swimming past (see photo) with a huge Eel in its mouth taking it back to feed its young quite a rare and spectacular sight. This morning our guests left dropping Noreen off at her dads on the way. I am left wondering how we get the boat back up the onto the canal. I have just phoned and grabbed the only free passage up the lift tomorrow but it goes at 12.10 we have to book in by 11.40 which is leaving it a bit tight we will get an early start but I am worried about the New Bridge swing bridge as coming down yesterday we only just got under it with 2 inches to spare now with the amount of rain we have just had and the North West in general the river is still rising if we have to wait for the bridge to be opened we will miss our slot on the lift so we can only hope
One thing in our favour is that we are going with the flow and the wind is NNW so I will be wind and flow assisted.
We have now a couple of weeks off before our next guests arrive just enough time for some long awaited repairs, painting and cleaning lets hope for the weather.
Speak soon Big Al
Lunch by the Boat at Dock House a very nice place
The Mink running off with a big Eel very rare sight
Some of the working boats moored up at the BW Yard
left over from the Boat Show
Carol in her TA which is I-Spy talk for
Tropical Atire
As you can see we did have some very nice weather
1 comment:
Great to hear from you again you've had better weather than Oz these last few days.
Had to laugh though, when I read in our local paper that we may all be suffering a mild case of depression here in OZ due to having to cope with so much rain this year, ( just had three days in a row!) It suggested we put some music on and get up and dance to lift our spirits.
Keep Baking in the Sun and Catching the Fish
'Oh! Happy Days'
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