Rods have been talked to, my lures have had quite enough stroking, my Epic Berlingo has asked for its rod racks back - it’s time to get back out there boys and girls!

Just a quick blog post this morning to wish any of you here who can get out fishing today the best of luck and may you enjoy every single second of being out on our glorious coastline once more. I am seeing reports of bass catches from last night which I am sure were all landed after midnight (?!), but let’s be perfectly honest here and say that going fishing on the coast especially has to be about the most sensible and safest way to go about enjoying some much needed “out and about” time during these mad times when being close to other people is not on the cards. Hell, surely most of our fishing is a lot better when it’s away from most other people anyway?

Please stay safe and be responsible and all that, but above all let’s hope that these grass roots of a very gradual return to whatever normal ends up being can continue to expand. I have invested so many hopes and dreams into a bunch of Savage Gear sample lures I have here at home that my own return to normal isn’t a given at all! Hell, my starting, stroking and caressing of these lures has no doubt altered their original shapes. I have a particular soft plastic here that I know works well because I had a few bass on an early sample version last year, but we have done some modifications I asked for and if you are out fishing in Cornwall over the next few weeks and you hear a shout of sheer, unadulterated joy drifting upon a warm spring breeze, that’s me hooking into my first bass on this latest sample. Whatever you do or do not catch today or tomorrow or whenever, cling to the memory that our freedom of movement isn’t a given and this thing we do that we call fishing is to be savoured and enjoyed and never taken for granted. Now to squeeze into my sample, hot pink, all in one but two sizes too small to make me look more buff, waterproof and breathable lycra bodysuit and gallop to the coastline like the thoroughbred racehorse that I have never been. A gradual return to normal? I will let you decide………………...