River Works 1 Completed:
21 September 2023

Lovely day at Hanford Farm (river Stour) for the working party today.  Between the 8 of us, we managed to clear 15 swims & dig out a level clear 2mts sq area in all of them. ‘Massive’ thanks to those who came along to help, very much appreciated!  Managed to disturb a large wasps nest in one of the swims… it looked like Gary Biles & Graham had gone a round with Mike Tyson afterwards (stung under their eyes ๐Ÿ™) … they carried on grafting regardless!!! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ The day ended ‘wetting a line’ for an hour in peg 2 (upstream end) and it paid off for your membership secretary (Paul Haigh) who managed to bank a lovely Chub at around 3lb 8oz, see attached photo (using my gear I might add ๐Ÿ˜‰), I had a few roach & chublets on the waggler… a lovely end to a great day. It’s beautiful up there.. definitely worth a trip, but not this Sunday as it’s the first Autumn Club match on that section (very much looking forward to it ๐ŸŽฃ). The ‘River Works 2’ session will be organised soon… still lots to do (& many hands make light w


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