Tuesday 7th April and destination was again our club’s ‘silver’s’ pool (B) aiming to fish the same swim as I did on the previous session and using the same laying-on style – my favourite method on this pool.
So I tackled up, baited the swim per usual with my standard groundbait mix, and started fishing at 0845 with dendro worm as bait. Throughout the day I topped up the swim with occasional golf ball sized groundbait balls and frequent catapulted maggot. And although I did try prawn as bait for a short period, dendro was my bait of the day.
… followed immediately – as in, rebaited hook, recast out, float settled down and just kept going down, down, deeper and down (ummm, somebody should write a song about that! :D)…. by the fish of the day … a new personal best perch for me weighing in at 2lb 8oz – almost doubling my previous PB of 1lb 6oz… I’m still buzzing now from it I can tell you!!
This was followed again by another lengthy quiet spell, until 1445 when a 3lb 11oz tench deigned to take my bait… and following this I expected another fish on the next cast so as to follow the pattern of the ‘wait..catch..catch..wait’ previous captures but it was not to be and that tench was to be the last catch of the day.
And a big chub was spotted just below the surface off the island in front of me and to my right – a good 24″ long I’d say – swimming away from me but when it reached the end of the island it turned and swam towards me – and my baited area – whilst slowly going deeper – thought there might be a chance but it wasn’t to be. And I did try catapulting out some broken biscuit (only thing I had suitable to try as a floating bait) to see if that would get any interest but it failed to.