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Work.....its a dirty word, still needs must... it had kept me away from the syndi for 3 weekends...
The plan was to fish the fri night, alas this did nt go to plan and i ended up heading off early Saturday morning after a trip to tesco, at least the roads to the syndi were clear and the drive enjoyable as i thought of all thing carpy..
I arrived at the syndi at first light to find one car in the carpark , the water was lower than usual due to a leek on the overflow system that was ...

The alarm clock sounded , 4.30 am. I must be mad ,as i heard the rain lash against the bedroom window.....i made my way down stairs, to where the gear was there waiting for me to load into the car...the syndi water was about a 20 minute drive from my house , so by the time i`d loaded the car it was pushing five am and i was off up the a50..
.i arrived at the water in darkness to find two cars parked up....damm, this wasnt what i needed to see to be honest. ...

i recently found a old diary of my fishing exploits in 2007..

The session in question was to be my last on the syndicate i`d spent many yrs in pursuit of its residents, and felt things had moved on and not to my liking..it was a session that stays in my memory for the right reasons and to be honest it was nt all about the fish for once..
i`d made a few good friends whilst fishing there which made my decision to move on even harder...

anyway, back to the final ...

i looked at the clock, 3.30....i`d just finished my afternoon brew at work, a hour and a half and i`m gone i thought....i`d been clock watching for most of the day as it dragged by slowly....then the final minute of the day had finally arrived and i was clocking off....now to face the rush hour traffic, the car had been loaded that morning to save time, the idea being , i could make the most of the remaining daylight on the looking for the big girl and her friends.... alas , my plan was scuppered ...

I arrived at the pool to find it empty, not a soul in sight...the sky was dull, the air damp form the early morning mist...i decided to wander the empty bankside in search of my quarry, the water was a good 3 ft down, which aided my search and i eventually narrowed it down to a corner of the pool, where i found about 15 of its residents feeding on a insect hatch, i`d say the biggest amongst them was a mirror of around 25lb mk. But the chestnut was not amongst them....
i watched them as ...