keiths Angling World

 

As both the girls are off school and work this week we decided we'd have a family days fishing at a local pond today. The weather was rather blustery and a tad on the chilly side but we made the most of it. 

I started the day off getting Marianne set up with a float rod and then Natasha with a short 8M pole so they could both fish the inside marginal shelf. 

I went for the island margin with a shovel style feeder, sticky cell pellets soaked in Banoffee syrup. 

The girls fished a mixture of maggots, corm, worm and small bits of meat on the float. Marianne was first to get some action and started to catch plenty of nice skimmers up to about 4lbs. I put a sleeper rod out down the inside for a perch but that stayed very quiet all day long. 

To be honest it was a rather slow day all round apart from Marianne's float spot which she took plenty of skimmers and roach from. 

I found the carp a few times but they were few and far between with just an odd bite and then they were gone again. The venue was lovely and quiet with just 2 other guys carping on there but they seemed to struggle as well by the looks of it. 

It's strange because just a week or so back I was able to extract about 25 carp on the exact same method I used today. 

The silver fish were still pretty active though and the girls made the most of it. Marianne decided to have a go with some alternative baits for fun and amazingly caught on pieces of beef jerky, bits of ham from her sandwiches, snails, caterpillars, space raider crisps were also taken and probably the most unusual thing I've ever seen a fish caught on! 

Just shows you can catch on just about anything! She recons the best bait out the lot was the ham and jerky. I've got a new Drennan Acolyte 11ft feeder rod on order this week with 6 tips down to 1/2oz which should be absolutely perfect for the roach fishing on the river.....hopefully I'll get the chance to use it next week if all goes to plan. 

I'm hoping I can head down to Hampshire on Tuesday or Wednesday for 3 days so the approach will be to chase the big roach for one last time this season before the 14th March. At the end of March I have a trip over to France to my friend Nicks lake with my bestie Chris for the week. It's a work party trip so part fishery management work and part fishing. There's plenty to do with swim reconstruction I started back in July last year, some tree trimming, painting etc so it should be a fun trip.