Todays fishing was a little bit different than I had planned and with the bright sunshine and very warm conditions during daylight hours, the fishing turned out to be rather more difficult than I had hoped. Despite the weather Simon and I hooked up for a days Perch fishing with baits at a local South Wales commercial.
There were numerous other anglers on there fishing for carp but seemingly struggling for bites. We both set up a ledger rod with a large prawn on and then float fished on our other rods.
Things started slow with just odd roach and skimmers finding the net. This was the continued scene throughout the morning and the perch were either not there or just not feeding.....
I decided to switch tactics to at least bag a few better fish and grabbed a feeder rod, some flavoured corn and sticky pellets from the van. I clipped up to fall about 2 rod lengths shy of the weedy island margins and proceeded to present the shovel style feeder packed with pellets to the spot. It took about 3 casts to get my first take. A good scrap ensued on my Nzon feeder rod with 6lb line to a 4.4lb hooklink.
After a spirited fight i bagged a nice mirror around 13lbs. The next few hours were spent plundering the small carp on the feeder and I had around 15 in total, most around 6-8lbs in weight. We hoped the perch would switch on as the light faded but despite our best efforts they never showed up.
A bit disappointing but we gave it our best efforts in difficult conditions. Simon had a couple of small carp and plenty of other small roach and skimmers too.
We had a great giggle and even got some plans together for a French trip during August. Unfortunately I had to do a small operation on a little common of around 4lbs that had such a poorly damaged mouth that had almost completely healed over leaving just a 3-4mm gap for it to feed through. Utterly disgusting in this day and age to see the fish so badly treated. There is absolutely no need for the mouths of the fish to be left that way. It's not difficult to treat the fish with a little respect and use sensible equipment for the size of fish you're angling for!
There were two guys fishing right over the other side of the pool and watching their angling made me understand how the fish could get like that. At one point I had a 3oz lead land just in front of me from right over the other side of the lake. The guy then asked his mate if he should leave it there in my swim? Unreal.....
They spent the whole day casting around and basically making a pain of themselves with radios blaring and loud conversation. Why do these muppets go fishing in tranquil venues and take bloody radios and spoil the peace for others?
Needless to say they blanked and sat watching us in wonder how we were catching and they weren't!
I think the 3oz pears and continual thrashing the water probably didn't help lads! Anyway, enough of that and time to move on to better things. I've got a couple of freed days this week and no plans yet so I need to get my head in gear and get a few ideas in place.
Tight lines all
Keith
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