seth49
Well-known member
A hard day yesterday, fished from eight thirty till three, as usual put the carp rod as a sleeper first, then I got my ten ft float rod and pin out of my hold-all, I'd already rigged it up the night before, I'd put a small pole style dibber float on, with just a couple of number four shot below.
Above the float was a small float stop, which I set at dead depth, so I could move the float down to fish shallow, but could quickly go back to fishing on the bottom, three and a half pound hooklenghth to a size sixteen guru medium wire hook, I like these guru hooks I seem to hook a lot more fish on them, nice strong hook too.
So I started catching a few small roach, I was only fishing two rod lengths out, well less than that if you take the depth of, I just pull enough line of so the hook reaches the reel, and swing that out, fed a few maggots and some soaked micro pellets, easy to feed by hand and I catch a lot of fish like this usually.
I was getting nice positive bites on the little float, never missed one, and only had a couple come off, fished double red maggot mainly, and that's what I got all my bites on, tried corn, and expander pellets, but they only wanted the maggots.so just small roach, one skimmer, and a few small perch, mick and two more blanked, just me and one more caught a few, hard work but I like this little float, should be could when the crucians start feeding.
Usual robin with me all day,plenty of birds singing,curlews and lapwings flying about, the buzzard was calling, and a greater spotted woodpecker was drumming away in the wood,there were roe deer tracks in the mud, and a hare almost ran past till it saw me, should only get better, back on Thursday?
Above the float was a small float stop, which I set at dead depth, so I could move the float down to fish shallow, but could quickly go back to fishing on the bottom, three and a half pound hooklenghth to a size sixteen guru medium wire hook, I like these guru hooks I seem to hook a lot more fish on them, nice strong hook too.
So I started catching a few small roach, I was only fishing two rod lengths out, well less than that if you take the depth of, I just pull enough line of so the hook reaches the reel, and swing that out, fed a few maggots and some soaked micro pellets, easy to feed by hand and I catch a lot of fish like this usually.
I was getting nice positive bites on the little float, never missed one, and only had a couple come off, fished double red maggot mainly, and that's what I got all my bites on, tried corn, and expander pellets, but they only wanted the maggots.so just small roach, one skimmer, and a few small perch, mick and two more blanked, just me and one more caught a few, hard work but I like this little float, should be could when the crucians start feeding.
Usual robin with me all day,plenty of birds singing,curlews and lapwings flying about, the buzzard was calling, and a greater spotted woodpecker was drumming away in the wood,there were roe deer tracks in the mud, and a hare almost ran past till it saw me, should only get better, back on Thursday?