I am not burying my head in the sand, but I’m going to keep on talking about fishing on here

Anybody else feeling a sense of deja-vu combined with a genuine worry that we might not actually get our lives back? I am not sure how I should be feeling as we enter a period of lockdown yet again, but I do know that I am going to do all I can to remain strong and positive for my family. We are going to come through this. You can get all the doom and gloom you want in the papers and on the various news channels, but I refuse to give in to it on here. I am not being a typical bloke and burying my head in the sand and hoping that it could all in fact be a bad dream and I’m going to wake up soon - if only! - but if anything I now need this blog more than ever. I think about all things fishing a lot if you hadn’t already guessed, and I need an outlet more than ever to communicate with you kind people……………

So let’s keep things going on here, and if in some small way this blog can provide a bit of a “not actually going” fishing fix for a few of you then that’s more than enough for me. I cling to how good it’s going to feel when our lives do get back to normal. I know it’s selfish to think about my own situation when there are countless people being directly affected by this bastard virus in so many different ways, but I have always been honest with you on here. I count myself lucky to have never suffered from any mental health issues, but sometimes I wonder what I would do if I couldn’t grab the dog and head out for a walk in the fresh air and clear my head of virus related thoughts and potential ramifications. Please don’t be afraid to reach out to friends and family if needs be. We are all in this together, and physical strength or “manliness” has got nothing to with mental health. Communication has never been more important.

If you will indulge me then I shall carry on talking about fishing on here. I am working on lots of exciting stuff with Savage Gear that I so want to shout about but I am not allowed to quite yet, but when did a bit of a gag-order ever stop all the other fishing related contents of my head pouring forth upon these online pages? I think back to my own lure fishing for bass in 2020 and I realise yet again how little I really know, and how much there is for me to keep on learning about and trying new stuff and so on. I look at the areas I might fish and how many times when locations I think I know pretty well then go and surprise me or completely confound me from time to time. You all please stay safe and well, please keep in touch via the comments section below or send me emails via the About/Contact Me page on this website. There is no hiding from the state of the world, but I will do all I can to keep this blog going. In the grand scheme of things it amounts to very little of course, but when did a bit of obsessed with fishing stuff ever do any of us any harm at all?