2025 Hopes and Plans

 

Blimey 2025! .  A quarter of a century since the Millennium .  Which seems like 5 or 10 years ago.  But there again I am one of those who says 30 years ago is the 1970s ,  Retirement heading my way fast at the moment my weeks have more days of than working .  So more time for fishing and other stuff,  But what about this year what do I want to see ?

For me there will be more fishing with bamboo.  I really have a taste for it especially for on the smaller streams where I spend so much of my fishing time ,  As for fishing time I am hoping that there will be more fishing time with friends and family ,  I have one Son who fishes although age related other interests have deflected him this last year.  But he will be joining a favourite club of mine this year so I am hoping that will reinvigorate him.  

So for the year in general  I am  hoping that we have :

• A proper Summer and by a proper Spring and Summer I mean So march cold and clear with a modicum of rain and some snow is acceptable.  April showers means showers and no more of those biblical floods ,  May means a little rain but progressively warmer ,  June, July  and August is mid summer with long warm days and just enough rain to top up my Streams .  September should start with at least two weeks of decent weather , I relish September it is like the summers last hurrah and is often the best month of the year ,  October will need some rains to restore the rivers for the Grayling fishing through until Christmas .  January and February well wet and cold please .
• Fly life Please let us have a return to a year when the hawthorn flies crash land on to the chalk stream. The BWO delight us for the evening rise , The mayfly dance and Sedges skitter. Can we see daddy longlegs in abundance and even have the midges annoy the hell out of me on those warm evenings . Surface activity to encourage rising fish would be nice .  
• Can we have sensible water levels please ,  something like a Goldilocks and the three bears analogy . Not to high and not to low but just right.
• Also this year could someone arrange for the trees to stop reaching out and grabbing my fly and tippet .