2015 15 June 13th Nursery Fields, Edenbridge

After a disastrous session at Chittenden the previous week I needed the confidence boost of a good day so I decided to pay a visit to the club's mixed fishery lake at Nursery Fields.

I was up at 5 am and on my way by 5:45 which meant that I arrived at the fishery about 6:15. Only one car in the car park so effectively I had a free choice of swims. Just how I like it.

I went round the back of the lake and chose a swim that had lily pads to fish to but more importantly some that allowed me to fish right handed. On the left hand side of the swim there were some reeds jutting out that I thought would be a perfect place to drop a small leger. I think it was peg 12.

I had both rods set up and ready by 7:15. The waggler swim had been fed with a genourous helping of ground bait, corn and meat plus a few halibut pellets. The feeder swim had been fed with three or four large handfuls of maize.

I started the session with corn as my hook bait and the initial going was slow. I did catch though, one solitary bream.

The next two hours was much more eventful. On the float rod I had another skimmer bream plus a carp of 2 lb. The feeder rod though produced this bream of 3 lb 1 oz on maize. I was really happy with that one.

Things quietened down for the next hour. I was still on the corn and the only fished tempted by it was a small tench.

It was the feeder rod's turn to produce in the next hour, and produce it did. Another good sized bream (2 lb 13 oz) yet again on the maize

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The lunchtime section of the session saw the arrival of the small roach, two of them to be exact with a liking for the corn.

I switched to meat for the next hour and was rewarded with another tench and a skimmer bream. the feeder rod chipped in with my first tench on the maize.

The next hour was all about the maize on the feeder. Another tench and surprise surprise a barbel. Neither were of any real size but fish caught nevertheless.

Between 16:15 and when I packed up around 6 pm I caught a mixed bag of fish on the waggler and the feeder.

This included a tench and a barbel on meat, two bream, two roach and a barbel on corn.

So my first day at Nursery Fields for the season ended with a total of 19 fish. A good start. I will return.