Highs, lows and hilo
Saturday morning broke bright, sunny and windy. It felt like the first Saturday in a long time that the weather was pleasant enough to spend all day outside. It was strange then that, only a few days before, the country had been told to stay indoors.
When that announcement came through, I thought not of whether I needed to bulk buy pasta, but about the fishing trips I had planned over the next few months. Trout fishing in Derbyshire, sea trout in Denmark and the possibility of sharks off Penzance. All of them were put abruptly on hold.
It wasn’t long before my innovative fishing friends found a way to pursue their passion for the sport and I was promptly added to a WhatsApp group named “fl y-tying through corona”.
“On such a lovely day, I couldn’t have felt further from the melee
