I turned up at the venue around 12:30 to find all the swims taken! The first time ever. I had a wander up the bank to see how things were going for the people there. Bad news - no one was catching. The rain began to fall as well and I thought how could things get any worse?
I mentioned to one of the anglers that I might as well go down to the ponds and try my luck there but he said there was a match on and that's why everyone was here!
I was actually chatting to the chap in the double swim who I had met there before and he said I could share with him to save me having a wasted journey. What a nice bloke!
To be honest it was a bit cramped but I managed to cast a boillie out into a area about midway across the pond. I fed a few freebies and settled back in my chair to see what was what.
To be honest it was a bit of cast fest there that day as it seemed that every few seconds someone had to cast a bait in. I put this down to the fact that apart from me everyone was using floating bread - there was loads of the stuff going in.
I was not really surprised that no carp were feeding considering the noise.
Anyway I was getting nothing on the buzzer, usually I would get some line bites that I took to be the roach initially investigating the freebies but today there was nothing.
As the afternoon wore on people began to pack up and leave. Around 6pm my fishing buddy went for his dinner as well. I started to hope that things would improve when I was left on my own.
However this was not to be as I managed to get my first blank of the season.
Roll on next spring!
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