Point to prove.

The farm pond has been loathe to give up almost any of it's treasures and I had one more chance to winkle something out for the 2021/22 season. Small wafters  fished with small flat bed feeders though I had toyed with setting up a standard open ended feeder with a longish tail to fish corn and worms on the tip. Two rods  won out in the end. Things seemed different, surface activity and the odd patch of bubbles, though not over my bait. Skylarks singing all afternoon. Did they know snow (yes snow) was forecast for tomorrow? It snowed two years ago  and I think I caught a bream in it. 

Couldn't get any Spicy Sausage in 4mm for the feeder so I went for a krill/squid combo in 2mm. The 8mm wafters were from last year, so I added so a few drops of water to the pots to make them soft enough so as not to split them or split the plastic bayonet stops. Always pineapple on the left rod, tuna on the right rod to start with.

One of the most effective  feeder developments ever,  even I can catch on it. Sometimes, anyway.

Took a while to get some proper takes though, probably small stuff then this lovely bream with a distinctive tumour pulled the tuna bobbin up tight to the butt ring and the baitrunner fizzed. Determined scrap (for a bream) which I enjoyed..

Two neat little red spots on the left cheek too.

I recast both rods and hadn't even set the baitrunner when the bobbin was pulled out of my hand on the pineapple rod. Another barry, this time a male with spawning tubercles. Two better skimmers also fell for the left and right trick. Point proven? Not sure but nice to get on to winning ways.

Good enough for a celebratory Wherry and scratchings.