Trout Fisher Magazine

Simple Things

ife throws a few curve balls and as such my fishing this year to date has been extremely limited. As we grow older we lose the flexibility of youth and health issues take much longer to overcome than what they used to. Good things inevitably will take time, as is told in the cheese adverts, but some days it can be a struggle to achieve simple things like putting your socks on! Add Covid into the equation, politics, the environment, the cost of living and accommodation skyrocketing

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