"My darling wife has been rather poorly so I thought
bringing her to the Arundell Arms for a
cream tea.
So, sat there with scone in hand, I said I wish I could
go fishing and to my delight she said off you go then!!!
To cut a long story short I fished all the way down beat
7a losing hope of breaking my salmon virginity and then I reached lydfoot pool
and thought how am I going to fish this as it just looked like a mass of
swirling currents coming from all sides. I cast into the bottom of what I
presume is the Lyd and let the fly swing through the pool and started to line
up for the next cast and hooked into a stone, this was no stone I had ever
encountered before!! As far as I'm aware, stones don't take off down stream
shaking their heads and then summersault in the air!!!! Thirty minutes later
and my first salmon was on the bank, I didn't really want to get it out of the
water but being on my own I had to get some photographic proof....
Thank you Arundell Arms, I'm no longer a Salmon virgin!
Make your own minds up about the weight but I guess ten pounds, it broke my
net!"
Alex Prentice
