One of the things about anticipating rejoining the angling world (which will very likely be the beginning of the 2011/12 season in June, although if the situation allows I could have a mini dry run at some point in late February or March) is that I am not going to be short of bait. This is because I have three sizable ‘dalek’ type compost bins, all of which are now full and they are constantly alive with worms so if I can’t be bothered, I need not stop off at fishing tackle shop to resupply before I go out to the waterside.

I cannot know how many worms there could be, but when I pull off the tops to empty the grass from the lawn mower or the bin in the kitchen, a multitude generally falls off the underside and the surface is absolutely crawling with them, so I must assume that they go all the way to the bottom. There are plenty of slugs too, but I have no intention of adding them to my bat and tackle to see if the fish fancy them as they are just too vile. And anyway, we know fish enjoy worms, so why experiment? That makes no sense.

When I was a lad I did wonder about breeding my own maggots, since I never had any because our village didn’t boast a fishing tackle shop, or anyone else that sold live-bait. To fetch some would require a lengthy round trip on a bus to Guildford and I would prefer to use bread, sweet corn or luncheon meat instead. But I would love to have had maggots, they always looked to me the ‘proper’ thing to use and the mark of a serious tackle dangler.

2 things barred my way about growing my own though. First was the effort which, as I recall (I am not going to remind myself it now) required getting a bit of meat, putting it in a warm location and then leaving it and having to repeat the process to get enough for a day’s maggot drowning. It was all too much of a fuss and I could not be sure that I could grow enough to coincide with my next trip. And if left too long they would smell which kicked off the second reason which was that my mum wouldn’t allow me.

The second one was something of a difficulty, so unless I could find someone who had made the trip to Guildford to visit the fishing tackle shop and who was feeling generous, it was a rare event that I could have any maggots with my bait and tackle. I may have been able to excavate some worms out of the flowerbed, but since ours was a heavy clay area they were often hard to come by, even when the ground was not bone hard which it normally was through the summer holidays when I wanted to go angling.

So now I have no such difficulties. When it comes to picking a fishing tackle shop close to here there is an embarrassment of riches when I need to restock bait and tackle, and as I have my composters I need never go short on worms again, in fact I might be able to make a small profit if I can bargain with the local shops to sell some of my worms to them, who knows? maybe swap for a pint or two of maggots or casters. And then I will set up my bait and tackle knowing I look like an authentic fisherman. Marvellous.

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The snow we’re enjoying (well I am, to browse social media and listen to the tv, it looks as if everybody else is complaining like Kiwi’s) is getting me in mind of one of my favourite pictures, Grumpy Old Men with Walther Matthau and Jack Lemmon. I like the scenes where they all go out onto the lake where they all have their own small shacks for keeping their bait and tackle and lock themselves up inside and fish through the ice.

I do question how that works though. The rods they used were stumpy things, they cannot have been more than two feet in length, and I wonder how, if the fish they are after are fighters, they cope. Possibly it’s just me, but if I am into a large fish that is not very sweet on the thought of being pulled into the shore and out of the water, then 1 of the requirements is to move about the bank to counter it sprinting for weeds or a clump of tree roots. Or perhaps, ice fishing needs such heavy duty bait and tackle that as soon as they get a bite they just drag it in with no need to fret about the line snapping.

But then, that can’t work because surely the line is clearly visible to the fish, so it would have to be either very brainless or careless. The utter point of maggot dangling to my mind is to choose the bait and tackle to fool the fish into thinking that all is well and it is in for a nosh using the nicest bait and tackle set up as light as possible and designed not to be spotted and when the fish bites and you strike to snag it, the authentic skill comes in, playing the line out when it runs, winding it in when it stops and trying to make sure that it doesn’t break the line and swim off.

One of the things that impressed me in Grumpy Old Men was that the fishing tackle shop had a caf space which I thought was a brilliant plan. What better, particularly on a freezing day, than being able to get a warm drink and a snack and be able to natter, swap yarns and information? The fishing tackle shop that I live nearest to is just that, although as a specialist shop it gets my interest as I can browse around them for hours, looking at the various goods.

But the finest things were the little cabins. What jollies to be able to shut yourself away, deck it out with tools and fun things just as you like and just have a fabulous day. I do acknowledge that it appears anti-social to do that but, to be candid, as most fishermen tend not to fall into the category of pretty and female, in fact generally the diametric opposite, you don’t always want to look at them for very long across the water.

All of the above is naturally entirely academic. I have no disgrace in saying that I am very much a good weather tackle dangler and it would need to be a very fine motive to haul me out in the freezing cold, but it looks lovely in the film, and that is where I’ll leave it.

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