

Retirement Plans
It was another late start to the weekly fishing trip, the alarm had long since fell silent. Eventually I was heading south as was everybody else in the north west or at least it seemed that way. This was only my second visit to the beat, the first had been an after thought and not very well planned but a few weeks prior I'd arrived in complete darkness and left fishless 6 hours later in 2" of thick snow. I had a deja vu moment whilst trudging back to the car, head down and sn