fishplate42
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Keeping any eye on Ralph is altogether a greater challenge.
Excuse me! I am happy here with my cold tea, sweetcorn and don't forget the Two Dog groundbait.
Why do you want to watch too... Very strange...
Ralph
Keeping any eye on Ralph is altogether a greater challenge.
Well, today's session started on Wednesday, in a way. After a bit of rain, I thought I'd fish the Trent for bream on the tip, and it was going well, with skimmers up to 1lb every cast, but a huge pike installed itself just over the shelf and launched itself at all the bigger fish. After taking a few off the hook, it got itself hooked. I played it to a standstill and it simply sat in the edge, laughed at my landing net and strolled off when it got its breath back. There seems to be a few pike in every swim on the river, and I'd had enough of them, so today I went back to the tench lake for the first time since Mike came down early in July. Why not fish for tench? It's only September.
I avoid places with lengthy rules on the board, so this place gets my day-ticket money
And once the 8 am downpour stopped it looked pretty in the autumn sun
Earlier in the year, the big shoals of small to medium size tench guzzle up corn, meat and seafood, but it wasn't like that today, and the anglers fishing that type of bait were reporting that it was “dead”. With a steep drop to 7' about 5m out, it's ideal for a long rod and pin, so I fished like that, feeding one spot with a few micro-pellets and maggots, and another with small amounts of hemp and caster. That eventually got plenty of bites, but even with a dotted float they were of the “I think that was a bite” type, and I missed a fair few. I think.
Some of the roach were a tidy size
And a few bream got in on the act in the caster-fed swim, the first I'd seen from this lake.
A grebe was teaching two youngsters to fish, a heron was fishing to my left, and, when I looked round to see what the unusual noises were, the entire pack of hounds from a local hunt were quietly observing me.
All in all, a lovely morning's fishing, a change from the river, and a rest from the pike.
Sample of today's catchOnly my third attempt at float fishing and managed 22 fish
3 Perch 10 Dace and 9 Roach
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