Very cold but no snow. However, a thick hardening of the surface of the field and path and frost holding sway in dips and hollows. It also highlighted several entry/exit slides.
The sheltered very local water had a 85% lid but the barely blue lagoon was ice free.The river was back on it's bones, clear and with medium flow. No day for chub so pike it would be. That weather was going somewhere.
Started further down the stretch but the blueys weren't provoking much interest and mine was began to wane. Kingfisher, buzzard, magpie, yaffle and dabchicks enough to make me persist. A brief double dip of the upstream float came to nought so no value added action for the noddy train passengers. Double bubble on the locos though.
Wind in for a wonder and prospecting for future trips. Need to give the free stretch a go.
I urged myself to make one last move. The downstream bait dropped into a slightly deeper hole and the float remained subsurface. In no time the tip began to nod and a decent fish tried to get into the tree roots and then across to the far bank. A couple of teetering on the lip of the net cord moments then into the onion bag and a difficult haul up the step bank onto the mat. Hooks out in a trice and a look along the flanks and a familiar wound pattern and it was the fish from last trip, a bit plumper in the belly so it might of had a feed. Couple of mat shots and I was on my way back to the car, wet net and mat stiffening in the frost. Think I'll definitely drop down the stretch into the free section to give this one a rest. Name please Wak.
Shame about Chelsea.....not. Col U managed not to let a 3-1 lead slip for a change.
The sheltered very local water had a 85% lid but the barely blue lagoon was ice free.The river was back on it's bones, clear and with medium flow. No day for chub so pike it would be. That weather was going somewhere.
Started further down the stretch but the blueys weren't provoking much interest and mine was began to wane. Kingfisher, buzzard, magpie, yaffle and dabchicks enough to make me persist. A brief double dip of the upstream float came to nought so no value added action for the noddy train passengers. Double bubble on the locos though.
Wind in for a wonder and prospecting for future trips. Need to give the free stretch a go.
I urged myself to make one last move. The downstream bait dropped into a slightly deeper hole and the float remained subsurface. In no time the tip began to nod and a decent fish tried to get into the tree roots and then across to the far bank. A couple of teetering on the lip of the net cord moments then into the onion bag and a difficult haul up the step bank onto the mat. Hooks out in a trice and a look along the flanks and a familiar wound pattern and it was the fish from last trip, a bit plumper in the belly so it might of had a feed. Couple of mat shots and I was on my way back to the car, wet net and mat stiffening in the frost. Think I'll definitely drop down the stretch into the free section to give this one a rest. Name please Wak.
Shame about Chelsea.....not. Col U managed not to let a 3-1 lead slip for a change.
I thought your best friend was called Colin. Or was it Derek? John
ReplyDeleteKeith. We'll have to ask ES tomorrow.
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