2018 13 May 18th, Nursery Fields, Edenbridge

Today I decided to pay another visit to the club's mixed fishery at Nursery Fields near Edenbridge in Kent.

I arrived at the fishery around 7am. I quickly unloaded the car and set off up the lake. Today I intended to fish the swim right at the top.

There was no one around my intended swim and so I knew that I was in for a quiet day!

It was the usual two rod set up today. A waggler line fished straight in front of me and a small leger on a feeder rod fished as close to the island as possible.

I was ready to make my first casts about 8:05. The first hour for me is really just a settling in period. That is allowing the swim time to develop. I knew that initially the loose feed would attract the lake's small roach and so I wasn't disappointed that the first fish of the day, attracted to the corn, was indeed, a roach.

The second and last of the first hour was one of lake's hard fighting tench.

The next hour was an almost identical copy of the previous one except that the roach and tench was joined by a nice skimmer bream.

The action really slowed down during the next hour. I only managed to bag two small roach.

Between 11:00 and 12:00 things did not get any better. One roach and another tench made the the virtual net. I began to think that a change of bait was required.

I decided to make the switch to meat. Initially I used very small cubes with the intention of increasing the size as when it was successful.

I must say it wasn't a great success. I only managed to add a further 4 fish to the virtual net before I packed up at 18:00. They were, in order of appearance, a tench, a barbel, an ide and a roach.

So how did the feeder line fare I hear you ask. I managed to catch three fish, 2 more tench and a nice carp which came in at 9lb 10oz. The carp was caught in the first hour.

So that was it for a pretty disappointing session. Just the 15 fish making the net. Better luck next time I hope.