2018 16 June 6th, Nursery Fields, Edenbridge

Today, I decided to make a return visit to the club's mixed fishery at Nursery Fields on the outskirts of Edenbridge in Kent.

It was just before 7am when I arrived at what was, a fairly well populated car park. I wasn't too bothered as the lake is large enough to accommodate far more anglers than I've ever seen up there.

I unloaded car and made my way round the lake looking for a swim that best suited my style (hit and hope!).

It was going to be my usual two rod attack today and so it wasn't until 7:50, after I'd set up and fed both swims, that I was ready to make my first casts.

It was a great start to the session as the waggler rod produced a tench, a bream and a roach while the leger rod produced two hard fighting tench.

An hour passed and the virtual net now contained 10 fish. The original five were joined by 2 tench, a bream and two small roach.

By 11am the net bulged with 14 fish with the addition of a bream, two roach and a crucian carp weighing 2lb!

The hour before lunch, brought the session's first ide, another bream and two roach. Total for the day, just before I stopped for lunch, was 18, not bad at all.

The hour after lunch was pretty slow. Only an ide and yet another small roach made the net.

The following hour was just as slow as the waggler line only produced a solitary crucian. The leger line did chip in with another tench.

By mid-afternoon (15:00) the day's total had crept up to 26 with the addition of a gudgeon, two ide, a bream weighing 3lb 6oz and yet another small roach.

The roach took over the next hour with four of them making the net accompanied by 2 ide. The leger rod also made a contribution, another tench.

The last two hours were special for me in that I broke my bream pb twice in 20 minutes! The first came in at 6lb 2oz, the second at 6lb 3oz! They were joined in the net by the only tench caught on the waggler that day and the only ide caught on the leger line.

I packed up at 18:00 a very contented man. A personal best bream and a 2lb crucian in one session how could anyone not be.

2018 15 May 30th Chittenden, Edenbridge, Kent

Today I decided to pay a visit to the club's carp lake at Chittenden on the outskirts of Edenbridge in Kent.

I arrived at the fishery around 7am to find a few anglers already present there. I unloaded the car and made my way down to the dam end of the lake.

I went back to my usual two rod attack policy today. One waggler line fished to my left and one small leger on the feeder rod fished to my right.

I was set up and ready to make my first casts by 8am. For bait, I started with meat on the waggler and 10mm strawberry boillies on the leger.

As the first hour drew to a close I was a happy little bunny. The net contained three good bream with a liking for meat and a seven pound carp with a taste for strawberries.

For the next hour I switched from meat to corn and was rewarded with three more bream. The leger line was quiet.

The next hour I switched back to meat. This proved to be a disastrous decision as I caught absolutely nothing.

I switched back to corn and caught nothing on that either. It was now noon and the net bulged with seven fish.

I switched back to meat and my luck changed as I pulled in a carp of around 8lb and another bream.

Corn was the order of the day for the next hour which did produce another bream but overall the fishing was still slow.

I decided to stay on corn for the next hour and was rewarded with two carp, one of 3lb and one of 8.5lb.

At 16:00 when I decided to pack up, the virtual net had increased with the addition of another bream. My total for the day was 14.

Not one of my better days but it's all part of the learning curve as they say.