OOOPs!

I have had a pole cap fly past my ear and into the R Yare on a hot and sunny day. The cap was on the 16 metre section and the air inside must just have expanded until it blew the cap off!

I have also had those top set holders, the clear ones with blue caps and two sections separated by a central divider, bend so much during the day that I couldn’t get the top sets into them after a match.

Saturday all the maggots died and I presume the casters were dead in their box of water as the water in there was so hot that I wouldn’t have bathed my 3 month grandson in it after doing the ‘elbow test’! The worms were almost dead even though I made sure they were in the shade.

I was pegged in the middle of a reed bed and the reeds were about 6 foot tall. Sitting on my box the air was totally still with no breath of wind whatsoever, the temp must have been somewhere near forty sitting in the full sun all day.

Anyone else have any tales to tell of the exceptional weather at the weekend? I know that you soft guys up in the North West had some decent damp weather with sensible temperatures and a bit of a breeze so presumably you don’t have too much to say about it.

My new hookbox has done exactly the same – hoping to rescue the hooklengths as they represent several hours graft but have lost the faith and will be going back to the Preston plastics holders…..grrrrr….

ive got a boss roller that i dont use anymore, got the rockers, its the best hooklength retainer around, hook into the roller wind it on, pin it on, its perfect.

Tek-Neek rod tubes. (the green clear ones)

Took pole out of them yesterday morning. Could not get pole back into one of them as it had warped. Others had warped too but managed to get pole sections back into then though.

Top tubes had also warped a little. Flipped them over and used the other side though.

dunno whats up wi ya all, bloody freezing in my peg yesterday lol!
ive had a mobile phone fry on me when its been left on my sidetray in full sun!!