It was pouring with rain as I made my way to the fishery as shown by the fact it took me an hour instead of the usual 35 minutes.
When I did arrive I went to the entrance gate and found it open. It wasn't the previous angler's fault but some yobs who'd broke in using bolt cutters to cut through the padlock.
The good news was that as I arrived the rain decided to depart.
There was one other car in the car park and I could see the angler on the far bank which meant that my intended swim for the day was vacant.
The usual Nursery Fields attack today, one waggler rod and a feeder rod with a small leger and 10mm boillie fished close to the island.
I was set up and ready to make my cast at 9:40 having fed both swims with a generous helping of free offerings.
As expected the first visitors to the dining table was a shoal of small roach. I managed to nab five of them in the first hour. A pleasant surprise in the first hour was the sound of the bite alarm going off. It turned out to be a bream of about 1.5lb.
An hour later the virtual net was almost full (!) with the following: 2 tench which were around 2lb, 1 Ide, 1 Perch, 1 Gudgeon and 2 more roach. The feeder rod had also chipped in with a couple of the good sized tench.
Over the lunchtime period the fishing slowed somewhat however this could have been down to my decision to swop baits from maggot to corn. Anyway another four fish came in, 2 roach and 2 of the lake's crucians. Total for the day now stood at 19.
I was still on the corn at 2pm. The weather could almost be called warm, I'd even taken my coat off. Another tench and Ide were in the net.
By 15:35 three more fish with a liking for corn had made the net. Two roach and another crucian. Also the feeder rod's bite alarm had gone berserk and I was into a good one. It seemed like it took me forever to land but eventually I did. When I put it on the scales it registered as my first double of the season (11lb).
By the time I packed up at 17:45 four more fish had made the net. From the waggler came a Roach, Tench and a Bream. The final fish from the feeder rod was also a Tench.
Just before I packed I packed up I tried down the margin with a piece of corn. I'd been feeding it with one or two pieces all day. Five minutes in and the float disappeared. After a titanic struggle the fish won and cleared off. It was either a massive Tench or more likely another good carp. Unfortunately I never got to see it.
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