Hi all,
I am hoping to raise a few bob to go toward helping a young man receive a possible life changing operation in the States. Christopher Maltby is 6 years old and suffers with Spastic Deplegia Cerebral Palsy. Christopher has difficulty with many everyday tasks such as walking, getting dressed and writing. He has undergone all the treatments available to him here in the UK and now needs help raising the funds to travel to St. Louis in America were doctors there have successfully operated and helped over 2,000 children with Cerebral Palsy.
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I will be holding 3 x Auctions,
This, my third auction will be a day's guided small water fishing at Maran Lakes North Yorkshire ( December - April )were we will be chasing rainbows using mainly modern small water methods.

The close date for this auction will be 2nd December at 19.30pm.

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Tenner to start you off for this one too .....

cheers Paul B

Cheers again Fred - been meaning to visit here too so great reason to go - PM sent and catch you soon,

cheers Paul.

Thanks Fred for a great day at Maran, really appreciated your time and patience and definitely going to be working hard at putting all those ideas into practice over the next few weeks.

You know it's been a busy day when we don't even stop for a biscuit break (!) time is shooting by so fast - definitely the sign of a good day.

Thanks very much for putting up the offers for the trips in the first place, they've been a real eye opener and got plenty of things to get my teeth into for this season.

Much appreciated - PaulB

Marans South lake greated Paul and i with flat calm conditions and remained as such throughout the afternoon.

With a few fish topping buzzers & dry fly tactics looked promising.... but with only a couple of fish coming to the buzzer and nothing to dries we began to work through the front line methods, again with minimal results, just the odd fish.

We'd spotted a particular trout topping which choose to ignore a number of offerings, the rest of the lake was placed on standby whilst Paul set out to address this fussy bow. Redefining his rig to a size 18 river shuttle and 3lb tippet soon set this record straight.

The days conditions were good in that it presented us with an ideal situation to show how to adapt and keep catching, with the help of a couple of useful flies we ended up landing around 20 hard fighting rainbows in a difficult afternoon session were most other anglers struggled.

Some pics. ( with water blur on lense )



Paul playing a rainbow.







Some hard fighting fish at Maran

Glad you enjoyed the day Paul......... see you for the WB's

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