FishingMagic’s Junior Angling Academy 2006 for National Fishing WeekAt around ten to six in the evening I finally got to put my feet up as I laid back in my favourite chair, my dogs were barking (translation – “tired feet”)!
I’d been up since just gone 6am having taken the real dog for his woodland walk of three miles, then after finishing my two Wheatybangs and milk I had to load up the car with all the kid’s poles and goody bags. Then off to meet with Graham Marsden at Granny Anne’s B & B so I could show him how to get to the venue – he forgets you see.
Up to that point everything had run as smooth as silk, so I got out the attendance list and could immediately see that we had plenty of kids there so hopefully everyone had made it.
I read through the list and each youngster stepped forward to collect a 4 metre whip and a bag with bait, a magazine, some Dinsmore’s split shot and a pole rig whilst Graham sorted them out with an FM t-shirt and cap. Having completed the list we noticed that a few youngsters hadn’t been forward to collect their stuff. Straight away, we realised that we had about five or six extra that had simply turned up and there was only three that had booked that didn’t show. What to do?
You can’t refuse eager kids so we compromised and got them in. What we hadn’t realised until later was that with three of them, their mum and dad had dropped them off and then left almost immediately after giving us the responsibility of looking after them for the day. Next year we’ll have an official cr  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community.
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