The weather for a change wasn't too bad as I arrived at the fishery dead on opening time (7 am). I then drove the mile or so from the gate to the car park which was as usual empty.
I unloaded the car and made my way round to peg 1 on Silver lake. This peg is my favourite because it allows me to fish up the lake and if reqyuired to either side.
I can only use one rod here so it was about 7.45 when I was ready to make my first cast.
Initially I started with a single maggot on the hook. The first hour brought me six fish, five roach and rudd and a bream taken on corn.
The next hour was even more productive than the first. I managed to capture seven fish consisting of roach, bream, gudgeon and perch. All were taken on a single maggot.
By 10:45 I'd added another six fish to the virtual net consisting this time of gudgeon, roach and bream. These still all came in on maggot. I was trying corn from time to time but with no success.
All day I had these for company.
I decided for the next hour to go exclusively on corn, I knew if I stayed on maggot that I would catch but they wouldn't have been of any size. Anyway the result was a small skimmer bream and a carp of about 2 lb. So the change was a success of sorts.
Only two fish in the next hour on the corn, a roach and a bream. The roach was four or five ounces so better than the ones I'd caught on maggot.
At 14:45 I changed tactics again, this time to meat. Between then and and when I packed up I managed to get another 2 lb carp. That made my total for the day 25. Not bad but not as good as I'd hoped.
I will be back.
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