Any good fisherman needs a breadth and depth of superb fishing excuses. The minute people see you with rod and reel returning from a trip they will want to ask you “catch much?”. Do in order to save face you need a good excuse on the tip of your tongue. Here are my tried and tested quality excuses:<\/p>\n

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• Overfished<\/li>\n
• Global warming<\/li>\n
• North wind<\/li>\n
• East wind<\/li>\n
• South wind<\/li>\n
• West wind<\/li>\n
• Dull hooks<\/li>\n
• Cheap line or tackle<\/li>\n
• Followed another fishermans advice<\/li>\n
• No sandeel about<\/li>\n
• Too sunny (fish are all at the bottom)<\/li>\n
• Too dark<\/li>\n
• Too cloudy<\/li>\n
• Powerful winds<\/li>\n
• Light winds<\/li>\n
• Wrong time of day<\/li>\n
• Brought the wrong tackle<\/li>\n
• Fish are overfed\/not hungry<\/li>\n
• Reel kept crowsnesting<\/li>\n
• Sky is too clear<\/li>\n
• Not enough time<\/li>\n
• Sea too still<\/li>\n
• Sea too rough<\/li>\n
• Tide too strong<\/li>\n
• Tide too weak<\/li>\n
• Jinxed<\/li>\n
• Fish aren’t around<\/li>\n
• Incorrect lure colour<\/li>\n
• Fish facing wrong way<\/li>\n
• Wrong moon phase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Top Tip – you can use a combination of these excuses for even better effect.<\/p>\n

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