i got to the lake to find it totally stiched up so i dropped in after someone to get set up and went to make a brew only to find i had left my cup and can opener on the side so ripped open a bean can with my pliers to use as a cup and had the worst brew ever.so i starts sorting my rods out to only first cast land it on the island and crack off,so re rigged and got two rods out then i found a nice little gravel spot so decided to put a few spods on it to only kick my open particle bucket into the margins thus losing bout 2k of it.saturday passed quiet unsurprising.so on the sunday i moved a couple of swims down got all three rods out perfectly to start setting myself up to rip the back of my hand open which later got infected lol.so sunday night im sat there and my right hand rod on the island rips off i played the fish to the net saw it only for it to drop gutted aint the word then it happened again at 7 on monday morning.i gave up smokeing four months back i now smoke again.so monday night nothing happened apart from a few bleeps on the margin rod.tuesday came and at dinner the island rod is off again but this time i land it 20lb 8oz it cheered me up no end.so i recast and sort myself out for bed and the like waiting for the radio one rock show to fall asleep to wake at 1.30 in the morning to an absolute screamer tried gettin of the bivvy on the wrong side to finally get to my rod just picture it a half asleep man with head torch in his mouth playing an angry arsed fish with slayers angel of death playin in the background it must have looked funny.anyway i played her to the edge where she determined to get the snags to finally get her in the net.i looked in and knew it was a good un so unhooked got her to the mat and opened the mesh and instantly knew who it was so i sorted out the scales and sling hoisted her up to see the needle race past my old pb which was 31.8 and finally settle on 36lb on the nose.so i sacked up for a couple of minutes to go get a photographer took the mug shots and set her free then sat and chilled with brew and cig listening to metal trying to take it in till 5 in the morning.the rest of the week went without incident so it was all good.id just like to say thanks to x missus for givin me the choice between her and fishing cause i wouldnt have been there otherwise and note the x part lol.

Lol - sounds like a perfect example of the pleasure/pain principle! Nice one fella

And they say fishing is supposed to be relaxing.

tell me bout it the sat watching the gbest footy team in the world nearly go out of the champions league cause of a dodgy decision when fishing can nearly kill ya lol

yeh nice one that mate, i`ve sent a few text`s to my ex back in england thanking her for not sticking with me for always fishin. they`ll be some people around hew`d lose there wife for a 36.