The season so far, had been far from spectacular due I think to the unusually cold weather. The question was could today be the day when it all tuns around?
I was out of the house and on the road by 6:20 am. When I arrived at the fishery's carpark I found I was the second one there. There was one other person as mad as me in the world then! Also he drove a red Astra, even the same model as myself. Coincidence or what.
I unloaded the car and made my way to the top of the lake where today's swim of choice was located.
It was the usual two rod set up today, a feeder to the island and a waggler about two thirds of the way across. Maggots on the waggler was still going to be my main method of attack.
I was ready to make my first casts at around 8 am. In these conditions I don't expect a fast start to the day however by 9 am I'd bagged 2 small roach and a skimmer bream.
The next sixty minutes was the same as the previous hour except that instead of a skimmer bream accompanying the two roach it was a gudgeon.
The next hour was my most productive so far, four fish in total, 1 rudd and three roach, Things were looking up.
The next hour bettered the last one by 1 fish. These were all roach and all still caught on single maggot. Corn was just not working.
While I was having lunch I manged to get three more roach plus a hungry little gudgeon. A big surprise was that the feeder rod sprang into action delivering up a nice bream.
At 2 pm, after catching another couple of small roach, I decided to concentrate my efforts on the reed bed to my left which I had been steadily feeding since I began the session.
Between then and 17:00 when I called it a day I caught, mainly on bread, eight fish which included four roach, two tench, a crucian carp and a bream.
I finished the day with a haul of 31 fish, not bad for the season so far.
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