Category Fishing

A lifelong passion

Not cracked it

Intro Today’s plan was to see if I had really cracked it with the chopped worm. The short answer is “no”, it was a very patchy day. I decided to try peg 5. Busy pond I have never seen so many pleasure anglers on the lake. The air pressure was high and the weather was quite warm and bright. There…

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Worms all the way

Intro My previous trio had been quite slow on the float until I introduced chopped worm so decided to try that from the off and see if I could keep the Ide feeding all day. I had decided to try peg 21 because it had a nice clear area behind for using the pole for feeding and, having setup a…

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Out comes the Pole (sort of)

A new peg I have never fished peg 10 before so decided to give it a try. It is quite close to the island so I intended to alternate between waggler (for Ide) and feeder to the island with the hope of Carp. I was also going to fish a closer line on the float. Feeding via the Pole We…

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Chilly Day at Pond

Weather Last few days had been much colder following the very warm spell of a couple of weeks ago where some pond anglers sat in nothing but shorts (not even a shirt!). We have also had snow for the past 2 days that has melted as the sun came out. Today’s forecast was for a mixed day of sun, cloud,…

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Big fish lost

9.9M & steady Today’s Plan My plan was to fish the morning in a likely Perch peg (peg 5) and then the afternoon/evening in peg 6 where I had been catching Chub recently. The last time I fished peg 5, there were some fresh shoots from the downstream tree that really hampered fishing close in to the tree where the…

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