Old Nick
Well-known member
After an enforced lay off from fishing for the last year / 18 months due to new house, new job, and now new baby! I have just joined a new club and am determined that this season I will fully accept my parental responsibilities and get out and catch some fish and leave my wife to look after the children!
I am targeting two waters; the first being one of the Pevensey drains (Wallers Haven) which offers ample opportunity to get an hour or two in on the way home from work, so roll on next weekend! And the other is an old estate lake in a very historic and picturesque part of the East Sussex countryside.
It’s the lake that’s giving me the problem!, its about two acres in size, oval shaped running east/west, with a small island in the middle, the swims are quite cramped with trees and bushes all around making overhead casting very difficult, the western half is full of lilly pads, and the eastern half has clumps of lilies around the island and much of the bankside, where there are no lilies these is a lot of pondweed, the water is about three feet deep and quite clear.
There are very few areas that I could see free from any weed making presentation of baits a real problem.
I fished a 6 hour session yesterday morning and managed to catch one small roach on maggot to my float rod, the ledgered tutti fruity boilies were totally ignored! Another member told me corn was good, however he totally blanked during the time I was theremg:!
So how would you tackle a new water such as this one? (I’m sure raking is banned otherwise Murv's raking thread would have been ideal)
What tactics would you use?
What baits would you try?
How would you present the bait?
Would you use any specialist tackle?
Would you give up, go home, have a cup of tea and wait for the river season to start?
Many thanks in advance for any advice
Nick
I am targeting two waters; the first being one of the Pevensey drains (Wallers Haven) which offers ample opportunity to get an hour or two in on the way home from work, so roll on next weekend! And the other is an old estate lake in a very historic and picturesque part of the East Sussex countryside.
It’s the lake that’s giving me the problem!, its about two acres in size, oval shaped running east/west, with a small island in the middle, the swims are quite cramped with trees and bushes all around making overhead casting very difficult, the western half is full of lilly pads, and the eastern half has clumps of lilies around the island and much of the bankside, where there are no lilies these is a lot of pondweed, the water is about three feet deep and quite clear.
There are very few areas that I could see free from any weed making presentation of baits a real problem.
I fished a 6 hour session yesterday morning and managed to catch one small roach on maggot to my float rod, the ledgered tutti fruity boilies were totally ignored! Another member told me corn was good, however he totally blanked during the time I was theremg:!
So how would you tackle a new water such as this one? (I’m sure raking is banned otherwise Murv's raking thread would have been ideal)
What tactics would you use?
What baits would you try?
How would you present the bait?
Would you use any specialist tackle?
Would you give up, go home, have a cup of tea and wait for the river season to start?
Many thanks in advance for any advice
Nick