More dace

Had half a pint of reds to use up before we all go into Tier 800 after our one day of festive fun and a no deal feck fest so dropped a little further down the reach to what we call Iron Bridge. Noddy trains whooping but none crossed so perhaps they were just doing  a static Santa Special up the line at the terminus.

A feeder runs in from the right which is just as well, as these days the main flow comes down a side leat from above the mill behind that bush making this section a tad moribund and the pin needs a little encouragement to pay out line. Double reds on a B560 #16 fine wire wide gape spade end doing the biz. Bites mainly coming as the float skirted the trailing branches  and just beginning to pick up pace as the influence of the feeder came into play. Lovely firm dace, I did hustle  then in a bit faster than I would normally do as there's always at least one set of snaggle teethed jaws waiting to snap then up and indeed one pike did put on a show for the passers by before spitting out a mangled little dace. A splendid hour and  a bit and here's a few of them, and a sneaky roach and chublet.