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So after yesterday’s successful and throughly enjoyable reservoir roach session I had no real intention to fish today as I needed a haircut then it was supposed to rain! However post haircut and family lunch the weather turned out just as nice as yesterday so I decided to muster what bait I had left lying around (which wasn’t much at all!) and have a few hours on the canal.
I started fishing about 3.15 and after 15 minutes the fish started coming quite steadily til about 5 then slowly tailed off til I packed up at 6.15. I missed no end of bites (one of those days where they bite every time you have a drink or chat to a passer by) but I managed to cobble to together 10 perch, 7 hybrids and 4 skimmers with the stamp of all species pretty good. Should have caught at least half a much again given the missed bites but for a completely spontaneous session I was happy to get out and catch a few fish.
Tackle wise having used my acolytes almost exclusively this year I thought I’d give the CR10 #1 a run out today. In hindsight that probably cost me a few fish as it’s not as quick or precise as the acolyte which is so good that it can bail you out by hitting bites that you aren’t really concentrating on/ready for. Anyway it was paired with my new CS4 3000 which was on its debut and whilst it wasn’t quite as good as my Sahara’s (it has a bit of a sticky bail arm) it did a good job. It was loaded with 3lb maxima to a 1g loaded crystal insert waggler to a size 18 to 2.25lb Kamasan b611 hook to nylon. I fished two lines, one at the bottom of the near shelf and one down the track with the latter the more productive. As I say I was rather short of bait so only had a few red maggots left over from yesterday which formed the loose feed and hook baits over sensas black roach groundbait which I found about 3 balls worth hidden in the garage.
All in all whilst I didn’t catch anything like as many fish as I should have from the number of bites I had the fish I did have were mostly of a good stamp so it was very enjoyable for such a spontaneous session. I’m away next weekend but if I’m back in time on Sunday and in a fit state I might pop back down there again.
Few pics of the swim, one of the smaller and one of the bigger skimmers and a perch and hybrid that were a bit over stamp.
I started fishing about 3.15 and after 15 minutes the fish started coming quite steadily til about 5 then slowly tailed off til I packed up at 6.15. I missed no end of bites (one of those days where they bite every time you have a drink or chat to a passer by) but I managed to cobble to together 10 perch, 7 hybrids and 4 skimmers with the stamp of all species pretty good. Should have caught at least half a much again given the missed bites but for a completely spontaneous session I was happy to get out and catch a few fish.
Tackle wise having used my acolytes almost exclusively this year I thought I’d give the CR10 #1 a run out today. In hindsight that probably cost me a few fish as it’s not as quick or precise as the acolyte which is so good that it can bail you out by hitting bites that you aren’t really concentrating on/ready for. Anyway it was paired with my new CS4 3000 which was on its debut and whilst it wasn’t quite as good as my Sahara’s (it has a bit of a sticky bail arm) it did a good job. It was loaded with 3lb maxima to a 1g loaded crystal insert waggler to a size 18 to 2.25lb Kamasan b611 hook to nylon. I fished two lines, one at the bottom of the near shelf and one down the track with the latter the more productive. As I say I was rather short of bait so only had a few red maggots left over from yesterday which formed the loose feed and hook baits over sensas black roach groundbait which I found about 3 balls worth hidden in the garage.
All in all whilst I didn’t catch anything like as many fish as I should have from the number of bites I had the fish I did have were mostly of a good stamp so it was very enjoyable for such a spontaneous session. I’m away next weekend but if I’m back in time on Sunday and in a fit state I might pop back down there again.
Few pics of the swim, one of the smaller and one of the bigger skimmers and a perch and hybrid that were a bit over stamp.
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