THE BABER SCOPE

YOUR FISHING FUTURE ACCORDING TO YOUR STAR SIGN AS READ BY BABERMAN, THE LEGENDARY GRUMPY CATFISH.

Taurus (The Bull) April 20 – May 20

The mighty bull. Some of you were born to charge across the Selous, others might feel like you are yoked to a plough in a rice paddy and yet, be ye daggaboy buff or domesticated cow, the blood of a minotaur flows through each of you the same. That’s all well and fine, but it’s actually time to challenge your stubborn bull-headed nature, because the changemaker, Uranus, is on a seven-year journey through Taurus. We call it the reverse prolapse. That means if you are slashing away at your home waters with diminishing returns, it is time to change flies, change lines, change target species, or maybe even take up golf. You’ll only know if the fishing is poor (or if it’s actually just you) if you experiment.

Gemini (The Twins) May 21 – June 21

I saw a news article the other day about conjoined twins who share reproductive organs, but, awkwardly, only one of them has a boyfriend. It dawned on me that, in a social sense, that’s essentially the problem with you twinzie Geminis. You and your no-outsiders mentality are guilty of overly-compartmentalising your fly-fishing life by fishing with the same people time and again. Sure, your buddies are entertaining (no one can light their own farts like Garth), but what if you allowed someone else into this group and – gasp – learned something new for a change? It’s a big inter-planetary system out there. Share the love. Or your reproductive organs. It’s all the same to me.

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