Back on the same pool at the fishery yesterday, late start again as mick had his diabetes clinic first, and then forgot his sandwiches and drink, so we arrived about eleven o clock.
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Started on the float and six mm expander pellets with one rod, and remembering how I foul hooked a few bigger bream on the float last time, striking what must have been line bites, I put my nine foot carp rod in as a sleeper, but with a method feeder this time, using soaked two mm pellets, and a guru eight mm Bandum banded to a size fourteen hook, in the new chocolate orange flavour.
Both methods worked, and I was catching more roach, than bream at the start.
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The method feeder was working too, had some better bream, and roach, as well as this fella.
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About two o clock it started to rain, it was forecast so I had my brolly ready, and my bags covered up, still catching well on both rods, mainly roach and skimmers on the float, and bream on the method.
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I then discovered that if I fed the two mm pellets dry, instead of soaking them they smelt a lot more of fish meal, and attracted more bream
, I use the locally made skrettings pellets, I buy them in half hundred weight sacks, works out a lot cheaper and all the fish like them, so I was getting more bream on the float as well as on the feeder.
Later on I’d a screamer of a run on the feeder, don’t think that’s a bream I thought, and I was right, a nice common carp about seven pounds, gave a good scrap too, in good condition as well.
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Don’t know how many I caught as my clicker stopped working after I dropped it, and yet when I got home it was working fine, easily over thirty or so, it stopped raining just before five, and then it looked like it was going to start again, so we packed up while it was dry, and loaded everything in the car just before it stated again.
So a good day, enjoyed it, apart from the rain, I don’t like being under a brolly, feels restricted somehow, lots of birds singing, and pleasantly warm after the hot spell, the water had warmed a lot, the fish felt a lot warmer as well, thought after I should have tried one of those chocolate orange bandums on the float rod, they worked well today, and caught better roach and bream as well, one for next time.