Thought it only polite to use pleasant chap's bait so headed back to the mill after chores, two not so pleasant chaps beerily belligerent about fishing the private stretch so left them to it and settled in a bit up from yesterday. Fresh 4lb bs Maxima on the pin and dace from the off, it went a bit quiet when a small but persistent pike moved in but he/she must have got bored and things picked up again. Red or white maggot, they weren't fussy. The smallest dace were in fact micro-chublets, the biggest dace very plump. I had two small perch. one was oddly coloured round the head, red and purple. Two roach and a rudd to complete the set.
Here's a few I kept for a net shot including the reddish perch.
And the plumpest dace
That perch looks like it's been having a scrap! And lost....
ReplyDeleteit was just colouration, a dace had similar. Perhaps someone is using Robin Red..
DeleteI had a roach a little while back that had orange colouration on it's head. I wonder if it's something natural or not.
ReplyDeleteThe orange colouration on roach is supposed to be diet related
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