In blob we trust
“It’s all about the blob,” said the man sitting at the next table, tucking into a sausage bap. “The blob?” I asked, confused.
“Yup. Orange blob,” he said.
As I waited for him to finish his mouthful, I glanced out of the window at a panoramic view of Grafham Water, the third largest reservoir in England. It is 10 miles around, covering nearly 2,000 acres with rainbow trout-stocked water.
It was the opening day of the 2020 season and by lunchtime my friend Paul and I had only put one fish in the boat. It had been a hard morning of water flogging and teeth gritting with very little to show for it.
However, the two men at the next table had caught “buckets of
