Lee - thought your story was going to get a bit spicy!
My most foolish angling exploit was when I was about 13-14 we were night fishing on the Thames at Runnymede on a junior match and it was the depths of winter with snow on the ground (In hindsight it must have been child cruelty sending us out in that) but it was more about lighting fires and drinking a few bottles of cider than fishing!. There is a small inlet to the Thames there and it was frozen solid. Anyway, morning came and we were cold and bored, so having raided the bin for a load of lemonade and coke bottles and set up a bowling alley on the frozen inlet - it was about 8 yards wide and 200 yards long, for a while it was ace... there were a few disconcerting groaning noises from the ice, but we played happily for quite a while, then my mate lee came along, who was a bit of a fat lad, and he wanted a go - so out he went and all seemed ok - then for some stupid reason (well for a laugh) I said to him if you jump up and down its like a trampoline (never expecting him to do it)...
Lee began jumping and on the second bounce dissapeared straight through the ice like he was in the stella artois advert! Myself and a couple of other lads formed a chain with me on the end and managed to drag him out - we were all taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia!
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