It's been cold and grim this last week or so, even with my new big padded bib and braces and coat but not wet luckily when I've been out in them. A few nice dace and roach from the Aquarium, a few kerfuffles from preds didn't result in a take on a cobbled together dyson but at one point the liphooked lively went ballistic.
A dour afternoon when I hit my only bite but the decent dace shed the hook and no one else had a bite on the short stretch.
The next time out (yesterday) was short and nigh on dusk. Half an hour's fruitless trotting
and out with a 15g mini cage feeder with liquidised white and three reds on a #14 saw an instant bite then more. Hit the fourth as they were a bit jangly and the satisfying feeling of a fish on. Not massive but a roach from Roach Straight. Just on last cast time (couldn't see the tip any more) an otter made it's way up the near margin. the rod must have caught it's eye, it looked up, saw me and and absolutely shat itself. Never seen such a panic. I must have been hunkered down and blending in as 4 slobbery mutts had been in my bread bucket in the short time I was there as the owners hadn't "seen" me. Hard to believe given my bulk.
Chunky's for a pint and a half of reds for tomorrow and a quick look at Broadland's winter mecca. These two bagging with some decent rudd, roach and big skimmers, just 3 or 4 rods out on the waggler. must be stuffed down there.
Even less time today so back up Roach Straight, just the light feeder rod deployed, I was going to put a 1oz tip on but didn't. After more "blending" in (commented on positively) the second cast resulted in the 2oz tip pulling round nicely and another Roach Straight roach was in the net. Pristine on both sides this time.
I'm really tempted to head to Mecca tomorrow as it's just down the road, but Mondays are normally rammo (I may set up a 15ft waggler road just in case) so it's probably a longer trip to either the Suffolk 'Test' or the Lark. Tuesday looks super grim.
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