A morning down Duchess Pond.

A walk through the wood in Stoke Park,

down the hill found me in a swim on the south bank.

Usual ground bait mix, Vitalin, Baillies No1

Sweetcorn, maggots, and Casters.

First cast was the feeder rod to just short 

of the halfway point.

The second rod was a float rod cast

too the Lilly Pads on my left.

Maggot and Worm caught Perch and Roach,

not many today very slow.

I had put in 5 tennis ball size ground bait balls,

and loose Corn, Maggots and chopped worm.

The feeder line was even slower, 

with the same ground bait.

At around 7.30 the feeder rod pulled slowly

round and after a short tussle

this 5lb 3oz Bream was landed. 

I then changed the float rod to

a feeder rod. this was because the 

wind had picked up making 

good presentation in possible.

Just as well, as shortly after

this 5ld 1oz Bream was on the unhooking mat.

By 11 there were no more bites so I headed home.

 

 

A morning on Duchess Pond

 A 15 minutes walk from my home and a shallow mist over the water found me tackling up a feeder rod and a float rod.

I also mixed up my ground bait, putting out 4 tennis ball size balls to the Lillie's for my float swim. Also 10 feeders full to my feeder swim.

I had size 14 hooks to 3lb line on both rods. The feeder line was about a third of the way across the lake.

Result was about 2lb of small perch and 1 Roach on the float rod. The feeder line had 3 Bronze Bream  6lb 10  6lb 12 and 6lb 14. All caught in a 10 to 12 minute spell.

I fished 5.15 till 9.45 this morning.

I hope to start this blog up again if I can.

Another trip to Stolford, 30-05-21

I do like this venue but it is a 

Spring tide venue.

I must say now

take great care of the mud, it is very 

soft and deep.

Also take care of walking out

over the the rocky areas.

The tides come in very quickly 

and there is a very big risk

of being cut off.

I use the same rigs as most of 

my Bristol Channel fishing.

Penned Pullys with

60 or 80lb Snoods with 4/0 hooks

The above photo shows what the smaller

Conger do to smaller Snoods.

Also there is very little tide so grip leads are

not needed.

Again I caught Conger, just the one.

The same baits were used. 

Three very nice fishing trips. I hope to be out

later this week.

 

A new venue, Stolford, near Hinkley Point.

Stolford is a shallow venue

Which has rocky, mud, sand

and nixed bottom.

I fished into the evening

using Squid, Black Lug,

Mackerel and Crab Cart Wings.

Not to sure what Cart Wings

are. They are blocks of Crab

and well, I am not sure what else.

You 5 blocks in a small plastic

Tub. Hopefully  I will take some photos

on a latter trip.

This Conger was one of three

I caught caught.

I also had one of my hooks

lengths  bitten off.

 

5lb Cod from the Ledges 19-05-21

I managed a fishing trip to

the ledges at Ladye Bay.

I could only get Squid,

Black Lug and Sandeel.

This cracking  Cod was landed

about 45 minutes before high tide.

It took a Squid and Black Lug

wrap.

 That was the only bite of the session.

Durley Reservoir 10-05-21

I was invited to fish with my son to this Somerset

venue.

We were set up by 9am, gate opens at 8am.

My son then taught me how to .

This involves a bomb shaped piece of kit 

that is split length ways.

Fill it up, close the two halves together

and cast out.

It is a good way to to get a lot of ground bait out quickly

and accurately.

Well although it was slow going,

I still managed to catch

6 Bream. I do like Bream and was happy 

to target them.

 In the end I caught 6.

6lber, 7lber, 10lb 10oz, 10lb 12oz, 2 x 4lbers.

So two personal best Bream in a row.

Weather was windy with showers

 and when the sun came very warm.

My son, an avid Carp angler was

most upset to only being able

to catch 4 x Bream.

All in all a good day out.

4 Trips two venues.

The first trip was at Ladye Bay

I fished the afternoon into evening.

Baits were, Squid / Ragworm, Squid / Sandeel wraps

and Squid on its own.

Lovely afternoons fishing

but only one bite, which was a Dogfish.

Second trip was to Rockingham,

here I used Squid / Rag wrap, Squid on it's own

or Rag on its own.

There was a chilly wind but otherwise 

a lovely evening.

Result was 5 Coddling,

2 were near 3lb so

I kept them.

A week later found me back at

Rockingham,

Rag and Squid were the baits again.

This trip was in the morning with a light breeze.

 Result 4 small Codling, all returned.

The next morning I back at Rockingham

again Squid / Rag was left over from the day before.

Weather was the same as the day before,

and the result was 2 small Codling.