Change is overdue

Been having some decent tench bags  from two or three waters, this little belter was from a 40-minute drive complex with a big drop past those lillies with hordes of rudd, roach, chub  and dace making a bee line for any bait they see so was quite please thus turned up.

Been looking for roach and dace and a few have turned up but I've sort of lost my mojo. These yestesterday nearly turned my head but  a change is as good as a rest.

I didn't bring my thermometer today like every other self flagellating Pious Peter on social media but I did bring my livebait bucket and pump and a float paternoster set up. I don't livebait much these days, it can be such a faff trying to catch baits to order then lugging them about. When the Bure Boi shed is hooked up I might make a holding pond but today I was fishing almost out if the boot of the new charabanc so caught  a selection of roach, rudd and dace and sent a circle hooked dace (the biggest in the bucket) out into the pool. 

Almost as so as I set the baitrunner the tip nodded and the orange tipped float made of with the flow pulling the 1.1oz paternoster lead along. Wound into and kept winding to let the circle hook turn and set and decent fish on. Not a pike but a big perch so put the 42 inch net down and guided it into the waiting 24 inch pan net. Solid but no big belly yet and a very pleasing 2lb 5oz.

Three lost fish and several missed runs later I found a single treble trace (I don't like them for perch), connected with a smaller perch and the last roach was taken by this decent pike.. Off down to fish with Loafer and Bully tomorrow in the estuarine ooze.

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