Bit late with this report as i fell asleep after getting home and having a bit of grub, but here's todays report.
Well Steve turned up at 9am with his normal winter cheery attitude
"it's Bloody cold we must be mad"
But hey were anglers and whats a bit of cold when you've not been fishing for a few weeks.[
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So after loading the gear in the car off we set for Stockton reservoir.[
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On the way we chatted about the days fishing that lay ahead and a plan of attack was formulated which involved fishing the deeper pegs on the Dam wall into open water with a small feeder and maggot with no worry about what we caught but just to enjoy the days fishing.[
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We pulled into the car park (which was empty) then walked up the small slop to find this scene..!!
[:0][:0][][]IT WAS FROZEN OVER[][][:0][:0]
But not to be beaten by a bit of Ice we took a walk around the reservoir to check for an area that was not so thick that we could fish without causing to much commotion by breaking the ice.
But as you can see by the second picture we did not find any thinner ice as the whole lake was frozen with the exception of peg 1 which is not the best of winter pegs as it is only a matter of a few inches deep.[
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So we decided to take the chance that Boddington was not totally iced over and so drove the 20 minutes to there.[
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On arrival at Boddington the scene was totally different and although the picture below does not do it justice this is what we were greeted with..!![:0][8D][8D]
[8D][8D]SUN SOAKED ICE FREE FLAT CALM WATER[8D][8D]
We decided to fish on the Dam wall (about pegs 21/22) as there was an open match from peg 30 upwards and a couple of other pleasure anglers down on pegs 1 & 2.
As neither Steve or me has fished Boddington in the Winter we scanned what the guys in the open were doing as they fish it on a weekly basis so know what works,[
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As you can tell by the picture below Steve was happy to be out on the bank at last as well,(although i think he was hoping a bit for a fish of that size [
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Steve set up a small grip mesh feeder and i settled for a small inline method feeder and so we sat back and waited for the action to start whilst basking in the glorious winter
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SUN [8D]
and then we waited and waited and waited some more.
And carried on waiting for action a bit more
And that pretty much sums up the days fishing
(we both done a TROGG [
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YES WE BLANKED
Although Steve did get 2 taps neither of which turned into proper bites.
But i will admit it was great to be sat in such beautiful weather in January regardless of catching or not.
Cheers Steve for getting me out on the bank again
MALC
IT'S CATCHING ...BUT ARE YOU !!!
IT'S CATCHING ...BUT ARE YOU !!!
