What's this lurch you are on about you fat fool. Well most call it long trotting but apparently those who watch the efforts of the Fat Bloke state that it's not. Some have even declared that Fatty doesn't trot the swim but lurches it, the late great Vic Beyer was one of the major players to offer such critique. However, you regard the efforts of Fatty, it works.
Biggish stick float, to hold back hard at times, alter the line and away again, then hold back, wait then away until either it gets too far to see the float or it has disappeared, hopefully with a fish on the end. Whilst this is being done keep flicking a few maggots round the float and scoff a pork pie at the same time.....multi tasking with the best of 'em!
Note of caution here, Learn to differentiate between pie and bait or it could lead to disaster!
If you know where the fish live in the river, so much the better and to actually catch your target, according to Dick Walker is the ultimate aim of the specimen hunter.
The ultimate aim achieved by Fatty:
This Perch has obviously followed the Fatty diet, what a porker.
Big enough to satisfy even the most sniffy critics of The Fat Mole, for it is he. Fish on the bank, pictures taken, pies scoffed, tea slurped, then it must mean time for home.
And it was so.
As ever,......
Moley
