Pains of Match-Angling
1 Getting up early for a winter league match on a poor venue
2 Tying hooks while watching Coronation St
3 Having to go out for Lobbies when its peeing down.
4 Going to meetings
5 Drawing a bad section
6 Drawing a long walk
7 Drawing in the shade on a nice suny day and you cannot top your tan up
8 Dropping your mate off miles away at a good section and coming back to a crap one
9 No foreplay (due to Chrysodine stained hands)
10 Losing Fish
11 Your elastic breaking
12 A bad angler in the next peg
13 A good angler in next peg
14 Wife wanting to go out when you have had enough back at H.Q while waiting for result
15 Tide turning when you have just started bagging
16 Paying for your bait and tackle on Friday night {especially if you shop at Fowlers
17 Dry netting
18 Buying a license {although its not bad these days]
19 Winding in and the Maggots smashed and you haven't seen a bite for 4 hours
20 Boats coming through your swim
21 A pole section getting stuck on a rainy day
22 Strap breaking on your holdall at peg 20 when you have drawn peg 136
23 That piece of tooth breaking off which nipped off thousands of tied hooks lengths.
24 Spilling maggots in the car boot
25 Car full of fly's a warm week later
26 Kids wanting to come
27 Wife wanting to come {but its 1o,clock am and you have to be up at 6 }
28 Weddings
29Christenings
30 Unleaded shot
31 Pleasure angler in your peg on arrival
32 Pleasure angler opposite
33 Eyesight going
34 Drawing next to Tarffy in winter
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