Back on our fishery again today, eleven o clock start as mick had a medical appointment again, anyway we thought it might be worth stopping later to see if the carp were coming into the margins later on.
Decided on a couple of swims back on the water with the better fish in, not an easy one but if you catch a fish it’s usually a good one, decided to rake the swim and see if it attracted the tench, the bottom was smooth silt with no branches or twigs, which have been a nuisance in other swims.
Fishing a small method feeder on my tip rod, with soaked pellets and either worm or corn on the hook, and cast another one on the sleeper to a bloodworms patch further out, slow start then started catching a few bream.
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The fish seemed to be moving about a lot, would catch a few then it would go quiet , with a no groundbait rule it can be hard to keep the fish in the swim, did put some hemp and pellets in, but only small amounts as per the rules.
This was one of of the better ones, to big to get all of it in the photo at arms length.
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During a quiet spell I reeled in and went to see how mick was catching, same for him, very patchy just bream, and nothing else, so went back to my swim and started fishing again, and had my sandwiches, earlier when we walked round I’d noticed some carp on the top at the other side of the island, so I took my floater rod out of the hold-all, glued a dog biscuit on and had a walk round, had a couple have a look but didn’t take, threw some freebies in and watched, one came up and started taking these so I cast in front of it and waited, it worked it’s way to the bait and took it first time, gave me a heck of a scrap, as it kept trying to get under some branches that had drooped in to the water, finally got it in the net and I tried my new self take kit out, the bulb release under the knee makes it a lot easier.
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It weighed ten pound and ten ounces, did have one a lot bigger taking the free biscuits but it didn’t want the one with a hook in.
So I went back to my swim and started again had more bream for a while, then it went quiet, after an hour with no bites and no sign of carp in the margins, we decided to call it a day, no tench yet, back on Thursday,