Usual early start today, at the fishery for five thirty this morning, surprisingly there’s already one member fishing, but not in the peg I wanted so no problem, it’s been another few cold days again, even had the heating on at night since Tuesday, felt cold this morning before the wind got up, and even worse later.
Mick arrived just after me, and we started fishing, had a couple of roach first, and then a small crucian after, noticed a tail pattern where I’d thrown some pellets in the margin earlier, dropped a worm in and a carp took right away, gave me a good scrap on match rod and pin, about four pounds in weight.
After that the wind started blowing, it was coming from all directions and cold with it, just after ten mick walked over to say he was cold and hadn’t had a bite, so he was going home, by then Neil had arrived and he had gone to the other side of the lodge were it was more sheltered, the other member had also gone, so that just left the two of us.
Very quite for a couple of hours, just one bite that came of in the weed, so I’m trying different baits and nothing’s working, so I thought I’ll either end it or mend it, and got the rake from my car and raked the swim, had a sandwich and a drink and started again on the float using mussels for bait.
Had a tench within five minutes about a pound, then two more similar, plus three F1s and missed a few more in the next couple of hours, so that plan worked for once, packed up at two, when it went quiet again, should be warmer again next week hopefully.
