Nature Watch.

don't think i've seen as much poppy flowers as i have this year. i wonder if it's something i just did not notice the last years or if this year has more of them than usual. they are the most beautiful of all flowers, especially now that all the grasses, plants and trees are so green almost fluorescent and the red of the poppy flower is like a touch of god.

It's the first day of river fishing season tomorrow so I'm getting up early to go and fish the Severn off the island above the weir at Holt Fleet.

On the other stretch I fish between Alveley and Hempton Loade, there's another island in the river that some massive (fish eating, but that's another story) Otters that presumably live on there. You can be fishing then a massive dog Otter swims past.

Where I am tomorrow.

I went down yesterday to clear a peg.

Before...



After... some whacking with a stick I found to clear a spot.



And the river...



Hopefully no one else will be there when I arrive at 2am as it's the only peg on the island, but it's a spot to catch Bream which aren't as popular as Barbel. On the Barbel stretches people will be getting there later today ready to start fishing at midnight, and probably catch nothing anyway.

I had a great walk in the woods the other day. Not much going on mushroom-wise yet, despite the recent rain, but I picked a fuckton of wild garlic and saw a deer, which was cool.

I went fishing in the end, but when I got there, I realised the river had risen over a metre overnight. Must have rained in Wales a couple of days ago. Still caught 5 Eels and a couple of Bream.

Saw a shockingly em-blue-end magpie just now.

It took me until the age of about 38 to realise that magpies are really beautiful birds. I only used to think about my own luck in relation to how many I could see. 1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for sent to israel to fight despite being a goy

luka said:

Did you eat the eels?

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I was fishing down a local weir on a Worcs Stour. A few lads came down and told me one of them caught an eel an ate and it made him bad! Apparently you have to stand them in clean water for a while first to clean them out.

Corpsey said:

Saw a shockingly em-blue-end magpie just now.

It took me until the age of about 38 to realise that magpies are really beautiful birds. I only used to think about my own luck in relation to how many I could see. 1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for sent to israel to fight despite being a goy

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There's a magpie down a club lake that I was feeding, until someone told me not to as he said a) they will lose the ability to forage and b they're thought of as a pest to other birds.