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Whiptastic, Tees Valley Lakes, 6th July 2022

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In the project team there are a few anglers: Old Skool - Foxy, not fished for over 10 years Nails - Aimee, fly fisher and shooter extraordinaire Padawan - Jack, new to the sport and is totally "hooked" and of course, me... I'm now officially an old guy! We had been talking of an evening session somewhere local to us all, where better than Tees Valley Lakes, guaranteed bites and fish for few hours after work. The date was set, the temperature wasn't quite to Foxy's requirements but he was excited and had removed his vintage gear from his carer's garage (circa 1981 box), re-elasticated his whips, grabbed some new line and rigs in readiness. Jack had purchased a new elasticated whip together with his guru whip, re-tied the rigs he had busted up on his last outing and had grabbed 4 pints of maggots for us all. Aimee, went to co-op, grabbed some food (I missed the text, otherwise I'd have requested chocolate bars!) and was borrowing gear from us all. The Pegs