Thanks TM!
Ennsol - Terry Lawton has already given me some info and I have followed some of his leads. It appears that most of the clubs (including his) have fairly long waiting lists, but they do offer day tickets, so I'm probably sorted between those and long weekends in wales and the occaisional trip elsewhere. We won't be in norfolk long term, so it makes little sense to join one of the waiting lists. I was hoping for one that had an open membership spot. It appears that I will have to find the fish rather than the fishing per-se.
With that in mind, I spent weds evening after work crawling through the undergrowth along the upper reaches of one of the smaller norfolk chalk streams. I know there are trout in it further down but access is tricky because it is in the middle of a millitary training zone. It is not somewhere you want to fish unless you are with the right people with the proper credentials.
Anyway, after several unsuccessful forays I found a stretch of the river that was deep enough to hold at least one little brown trout. So now I have to enquire with the famer as to whether I can fish it and whether it is already leased by a club. I suspect not - due to the lack of any obvious means of access except crashing through the brambles and crawling along on hands and knees.
I arrived home, late for tea, and having forgetten about the mud on my trousers and shirt. I tried explaining to my wife that I had just made passionate love in a field with a beautiful co-worker. She didn't buy that. Her response was a sarcastic "do you SEE what this obsession of yours drives you to?"
How can I explain to her that I have no choice? As John Gierach says: "trout fishermen have to stop and look at trout streams. Its in the contract."
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