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Month: March 2019

Pickering Beck

Trout account opens for 2019 (after a false start)

A belter of a spring morning and it’s up to Pickering Beck to see if the troot have woken up yet. This was my second foray – I was up on opening day on 25th March but the blighters were not interested. Today would be different, surely? My confidence has taken a bit of a […]

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