Tee-Cee
Senior Member
I go with the school for whom 'just being there' is just as important as catching either loads of small, or one, big fish.
Some of my most memorable days have not been around the catch, but because I have seen something that I'd never seen before, and this may be a new species of bird or a fish rising that I didn't know existed in a particular water.
I fished yesterday and didn't catch a great deal but the highlight of the day was a female blackbird, normally quite shy, come to within 2' of my bait box. She accepted my offering of a few maggots before a male of the species zoomed in under my chair and chased her away with much noise and crashing about in the bushes!
Be under no illusion that it doesn't bother me to catch little or even worse, nothing, because that's just not true. I go out to catch, and the bigger the better, BUT it's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen.
Yesterday was a strange day weather wise (nr Reading Berks) as the early morning sunshine, which looked to be making for a lovely day with roach coming to the net at intervals, was replaced after an hour with a low, very cold mist which drifted across the lake never to lift again until noon. It went from pleasant to very uncomfortable in minutes. It was freezing!
The roach stopped feeding immediately, so to answer the Thread question, yes, I would've been grateful to see a couple of 8" roach during that period of time, let alone a fish over a pound!!
It was not to be despite my best efforts.......I fished hard and to the best of my ability all to no avail........................................I did enjoy the blackbirds though!
I shall return on Friday though..............................!
Some of my most memorable days have not been around the catch, but because I have seen something that I'd never seen before, and this may be a new species of bird or a fish rising that I didn't know existed in a particular water.
I fished yesterday and didn't catch a great deal but the highlight of the day was a female blackbird, normally quite shy, come to within 2' of my bait box. She accepted my offering of a few maggots before a male of the species zoomed in under my chair and chased her away with much noise and crashing about in the bushes!
Be under no illusion that it doesn't bother me to catch little or even worse, nothing, because that's just not true. I go out to catch, and the bigger the better, BUT it's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen.
Yesterday was a strange day weather wise (nr Reading Berks) as the early morning sunshine, which looked to be making for a lovely day with roach coming to the net at intervals, was replaced after an hour with a low, very cold mist which drifted across the lake never to lift again until noon. It went from pleasant to very uncomfortable in minutes. It was freezing!
The roach stopped feeding immediately, so to answer the Thread question, yes, I would've been grateful to see a couple of 8" roach during that period of time, let alone a fish over a pound!!
It was not to be despite my best efforts.......I fished hard and to the best of my ability all to no avail........................................I did enjoy the blackbirds though!
I shall return on Friday though..............................!
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