Do you ever get that “pulling” feeling?

The tug is very much the drug for me with this whole lure fishing thing, but yesterday evening I got one of those slightly different tugs, and it kinda makes me giggle when I think about what I felt and what the fish seemed to be trying to do. My mate Andy made the call on where to fish and I liked his idea very much when we turned up and found some pretty good looking conditions. We didn’t clean up, but I dropped an okay fish at my feet and we both got a couple of bumps through fishing paddletails in close and around the swirling water. What really made my evening though was the lack of weed and the chance to properly fish a few different lures nice and close……………

One of those bumps wasn’t your typical “bang” though. I was bringing the paddletail in through a good looking gully and letting it wash around when possible. All of a sudden I got this feeling down the rod that there was fish on the lure, but it never “banged”. I have had this a few times when fishing a paddletail, when it feels like the bass has got hold of the tail and is literally trying to pull it away. Because I was fishing close in, it really felt like I was picking up on the elasticity of the lure as the bass tried pulling it away from me to try and eat. I am guessing the fish didn’t like the feel of the lure because a second or two later it buggered off and I was left giggling at the mental image in my head of a bass playing a sort of tug of war with me.

I got it into my head on the journey home last night that I was going to run a 10k this morning - which I did, and it was my second fastest, with all things being relative of course! It’s been nearly one year since I had my heart attack, and yesterday I had my first ECG since that little “episode”. I was rather happy to learn that firstly my heart is still there, and secondly that it’s working really well. I was pleased and relieved so I thought why not smash a 10k and break in a new pair of running shoes. Just short of 100k for the month again, got a few days left to see if I can go past my previous figures. Please don’t have a heart attack if you can help it, but I’ve got a running addiction from it, I have never felt fitter or stronger, and I refuse to waste this opportunity I was given to carry on with this living thing. You all have a good weekend…………………