Half a day pass out so headed off first to the Mill. Water coming over the second weir so a nice near bank eddy round to the white water. Set up the 15 foot Greys with an Avanta Ikon pin. 4lb straight through to a #16 in case I decided to try a small worm. Double white suspended under a 5 bb Drennan Big Stick. First run through and the stick buried as a lovely little roach grabbed the grubs just the eddy turned under the first sluice.
With the swirling current loose feeding was a bit hit and miss but if the float hit a sweet patch, held back quite hard a bite usually occurred. Mostly dace, and all put up a good account of themselves in the heavy push.
Some were starting to get pigeon chested too.
Managed a couple of little spotties as well. This one had an electric blue sheen to the head, and almost rainbow magenta flanks.
I lost a much bigger one on a worm bounced round the tail of the flush, a good 3lb which jumped out of the net after a long deep fight round the pool. It was a heavily marked fish, again with an almost magenta flank and a deep butter yellow belly.
Think I will try a much heavier float next time as there were certainly fish in the faster water.
Satisfied I headed down to the lowest end of the beat for the last 90 minutes with some very stinky cheesepaste and a festive tipple.
Fed liquidised bread in 4 swims then worked down with a decent lump of the stinky paste with one half hearted pull for my efforts. Always a next time
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