After a break of two weeks or so I decided that the time was
right to pay another visit to the club’s main lake, Nursery Fields.
I was determined to try a new swim but still use my 2 rod
attack. When I arrived at the fishery there were three cars already in the car
park, undeterred I loaded up the trolley and made my way to the top of the
lake. My intention was to fish one of top swims on the far side.
Unlike last time my luck was in as I found that all the
swims in that area were free. After some deliberation I chose peg 14. There
were lilies to fish to close in and some to fish to on the far side. It seemed
very interesting.
As usual I started by mixing up the ground bait and when
that was done I preceded to set up the rods. I was ready to make my first casts
at 7:56. The feeder rod today had small pineapple frenzy boillies. I was trying
something different from the usual monster crab.
The last few visits to NF had seen me start with maggot on
the hook and today was no different. The ground bait and loose feed had
obviously done their job because the first hour yielded 8 roach, 2 tench, 1
small barbell and a perch.
At the end of the first hour I repeated the feed and the
results also seemed to repeat themselves, 3 roach, 2 tench, another small barbel
and my first bream of the session.
The next hour only yielded three fish. This was in part due
to the fact that I decided to change hook bait. I started to alternate between
corn and meat. Corn was responsible for the roach and meat for the small barbel.
The third fish was the first from the feeder rod and was another small bream.
The last hour of the morning session was the slowest so far,
one tench on each of the rods. Perhaps this swim wasn’t as good as it first
looked.
After my lunch, 2 scotch eggs and some southern fried chicken
pieces I went on an all-out meat attack. I was rewarded with 4 barbel and a
couple of tench. The quality of the tench was improving but the barbel was
still on the small side.
I went back to corn occasionally but mainly it was the meat
that was doing the trick. Only three fish in the next hour, again it was tench
and barbel however a solitary bream decided to join the party this time.
The swim was really dying now so I decided to return to the
maggots. Numbers wise it didn’t get any better as I only caught four in the
next hour. A roach, a barbel and one of each from two species new to the
session, a Rudd and a crucian carp. Those crucian are really lovely looking
fish.
I was not sure that today’s choice of swim wasn’t the best because
when the clock struck four I’d only had another couple of barbel. Sadly these
were not the two pounders that live in this lake but their smaller siblings.
I packed up at 18:00 having only added another 2 barbel and
a tench. The pineapple frenzy boillies on the feeder rod weren’t faring much
better although around 5pm the rod tip shot round and I was into a carp, sadly
it wasn’t into me and it broke the hook length as it charged towards the nearby
lily pads.
So in conclusion did I have a good day? Of course I did I
was out of the house, away from the TV and out fishing. I did catch 44 fish so
that was ok. I might go back to monster crab on the feeder rod next time
though.
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