Catch 22 Durham

[Jordan Tucker]

Iwas lucky enough to catch a beautiful sunset over Durham City the other night. I sent the drone up & took a 21 shot panorama of Durham City with the Cathedral in the centre, then cropped off the edges in lightroom.

The Durham Bulls will host their free 2024 Spring Fan Fest on Friday, March 29 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The event will feature two different sessions, with Session 1 taking place from 3:00pm-5:00pm, while Session 2 will last from 6:30pm-9:00pm. Admission is free, however tickets are required for entry. A limited number of tickets will be available for each session, with activities including:

Batting practice for fans 12 & under will be open starting at 3:00pm, with fans of all ages able to play catch on the field in addition to numerous other activities. The batting practice line will be closed at 4:30pm and the stadium will be cleared at 5:00pm, with the exception for those finishing batting practice.

Batting practice for fans 12 & under will begin starting at 6:30pm, with fans of all ages able to play catch on the field, in addition to numerous other activities. The batting practice line will be closed at 8:30pm and the stadium will be cleared at 9:00pm, with the exception for those finishing batting practice.

Fall Fan Fest guests age 12 and under will also have the chance to take batting practice during the event and take swings on the same field as the Durham Bulls players from 6:30pm until 8:00pm. 919 Club Members will then have the chance to take batting practice beginning at 8:00pm. Please note that fans must bring their own equipment, including baseballs and gloves, to play catch on the outfield grass, and will not be provided at the event. Fans age 12 and under who wish to participate in batting practice on the field may bring their own bats.

919 Club Members are welcome to get tickets for either session. Any 919 Club Member wishing to participate in Batting Practice will need to visit the 919 Club Table to check in, located in Section 203 and get a wristband. 919 Club Members may arrive at any time during the session they have a ticket for to enjoy all activities offered at Fan Fest, however 919 Club Members will only be permitted to join the batting practice line at 4:30pm for Session 1 and 8:30pm for Session 2.

will have an exclusive chance to take batting practice on the field and can enter Durham Bulls Athletic Park through the left field entrance starting at 5:00pm and join the batting practice line. Once the field has been cleared, 919 Club Members will be able to hit.

In my desperation to catch a trout on a fly pole, I even committed the ultimate blasphemy. I put a worm on instead of a fly. It worked; I caught a huge rainbow trout. My satisfaction was fleeting, however, because I knew I had cheated.

Eventually, I put aside my fly rod. Until this spring, I watched friends catch and release zillions of trout on flies while the fish ignored my worms and a plethora of artificial lures. I figured I had nothing to lose by slinging a fly around again. At first I flailed at the water as if it were my enemy. My stomach began to knot, as my leader soon would if I did not calm down. Suddenly, I could not care less about the whole game. I surrendered. And won. When I stopped trying to will the line into flattening out on to the water it did just that. I had forgotten the advice of one of the greatest martial artists of all time, Bruce Lee. To achieve, he said, forget about self and approach the task as if nothing particular where taking place at the moment. In other words, stop trying so hard and relax.

I began to catch a few trout. A friend, Chip Baumann of Killingworth, gave me a killer fly that he had tied and I caught a few more. Another friend, Junior Lang of Clinton, noticed that I canted my casting arm too much to the right. Once this flaw was corrected, a few more yards were added to the length of my cast.

Fly fishing was fun for the first time. Satisfied with what I am doing, having no urgent desire to get any better at it, I probably will. For sure, there are plenty of places to fly fish for trout in the area. Chatfield Hollow holds Chatfield Hollow Brook and Schreeder Pond, which constitute a state DEEP trout park, a designation meaning the place is easy to fish and is frequently stocked. The pond at Chatfield Hollow is superb for a novice fly fisher because it is shallow and easy to wade. Best of all, it has all the room in the world to cast. Trout park creel limits are lower than other ponds and streams.

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Warwickshire's bright start to the season continued at Chester-le-Street, where winter recruit William Porterfield punished Durham wicketkeeper Michael Richardson for an early missed chance as the visiting team reached 345 for 7.

Two quick wickets had turned 71 without loss into 73 for 2 as Durham made a double breakthrough after 75 minutes and it should have been 77 for 3 but Richardson, standing in again for the injured Phil Mustard, spilled a catch off Callum Thorp's bowling.

Although Richardson combined with Graham Onions to remove the threat of Mohammad Yousuf when the former Pakistan Test player had made 25, Porterfield made the most of his luck, reaching 87 before he was leg before to spinner Scott Borthwick.

Thorp had made the first breakthrough when Ian Westwood was caught behind for 46. Varun Chopra, with two double hundreds already this season, then fell for 23 when he chipped Ruel Brathwaite to Ben Stokes.

Stokes, whose bowling has been restricted by an ankle problem since he took 6 for 68 against Hampshire two weeks ago, was pressed into service as fourth seamer with Mitch Claydon left out but conceded 50 runs in five wicketless overs.

Lancashire, joint leaders with Warwickshire after both won their opening two matches, likewise maintained their form on the first day against Sussex at Hove, where Paul Horton and Stephen Moore combined in the county's biggest first-wicket stand since September 2008, putting on 129 in 36 overs before Moore, one run shy of a half-century, was leg before to Luke Wright, making his first appearance since suffering a knee injury with England in the World Cup.

Horton hit 13 boundaries and looked in exceptional form but was on 78 when he top-edged a pull against Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, first slip Ed Joyce getting under the catch. Mark Chilton was run out after putting on 82 with Karl Brown for the third wicket and Monty Panesar was rewarded for his perseverance when Steven Croft paddled a catch to short leg but Sussex did themselves no favours by donating 36 free runs from no-balls.

James Harris, feted as one of the next generation of England fast bowlers, demonstrated his prowess with the bat at Chelmsford, scoring his fifth first-class fifty. He finished his day by dismissing Alastair Cook for five as Essex closed on 13 for 1 in reply to 282.

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