Saturday and I was back on the river after roach. Not particularly seriously as I'd only taken maggots. They took a while to find and were too far over for the pin really though the 15 footer helped. It didn't take the dace long to home in either and some were coming to hand like greedy old chub, spewing maggots out of their gills. Did have one net roach and what a belter. Not big but what a frame. I did find some deeper runs and spots that had cover and not much streamer weed for future reference And some perch showed up which was a good sign. Perhaps not so good was a persistent and not at all shy otter mooching about. All to the soundtrack of rooks and shrill peeping oystercatchers which do like our Norfolk water weadows. The sea is not that far away.
I must have had this float from almost schoolboy times and probably bought it at Wassies in Colchester.
Sunday I continued my noddying about on the faintly blue lagoon and caught a stack of skimmers and small hybrids, with a few roach all on corn. OK but not that exciting.
Now, for plums with some custard or ice cream. And ginger of course. In the garden. With the swifts wheeling about.
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