I have to park the Jeep about 75 yards away when fishing this swim and because there was some rain forecast, I was a little concerned about getting drenched and freezing cold staying by the rods all night. Plus my knee was still very painful and looked a bit of a mess.

Well, it certainly wasn’t an option not to fish all night; I mean I’d traveled so far for a great chance to catch some awesome mirrors… So I gritted my teeth, put the wet gear on and just went for it. It took me two hobbling trips to the swim from ‘Hotel’ Jeep to get my gear down to the swim where I eventually got set up and put the baits out with great anticipation…