Back down the Pond. 18-10-22.

It was a wee bit misty

yesterday morning for my

walk down to Duchess Pond.

Quite warm for the time of year

and flat calm.

Usual rods and reels were used,

Maggot, Sweetcorn, worm and 

bread were the baits.

From the off small Perch

were starving, the float line

catching the most.

The sun managed to burn off 

the fog which left a really lovely 

calm morning.

Now the Roach came out to play,

white maggots caught the most

Roach, red for the Perch.

The feeder rod was board,

nothing showed any interest in it.

So by midday a nice little bag of 

Roach and Perch, about 3.1/2 lb

was in the new small keepnet.

 The local Little Grebe passed

through the swim, really

nice to see it up close.

The float swim would go dead 

when the Grebe was about.

As there was a Cormorant 

out in the middle, I wonder 

if that kept the fish out of the middle.

Not Bristol area bur the Chesil Beach

 Fished the big shingle bank down 

Abbotsbury way.

After a long walk I set up 4 rods.

2 cast in close,

and 2 out at varying distances.

Saw the sun rise,

sun set,

and Moon rise.

As for the fishing

not a bite seen.

Varying rigs were used.

Squid and Blow Lug were the baits.

Result was 1 tiny Pouting

was wound in on the very last cast.

So a long walk back to the car.

Back to Duchess Pond during the week,

I hope.

 

Bites were few and far between. 28-09-22

Couldn't escape till 7.30

so walked  down and chose the

south bank.

From the start I could not get 

a bite, Maggots, Casters and Sweetcorn

could not tempt any interest. 

As can be seen, the sun was out 

but soon went back to bed. The wind gradually 

got stronger and I soon

had to put the float rod away

and used a maggot feeder 

along side the usual ground bait feeder.

Ended the day with 12 small Perch

and 6 small Roach.

Very slow morning down Duchess Pond. 24-09-22

Later start than usual usual

down the pond.

Cool and calm at first then the breeze

picked up.

Fished a different swim,

this one didn't have any Lillie's

and is a bit deeper. 

I did my usual start,

5 tennis ball size balls of my ground bait mix

on the float rod line and cast out 10 

full feeders to my feeder swim.

No live Maggots this time but some frozen

ones. Loose worms and Sweet corn

were also added to the swims.

Well trying to get bites was really

difficult.

Just a couple of small Perch on the feeder 

line and about 2lb on the float.

All in all very pleasant,

shame the fish didn't show.

 I now know which swims I

will fish.

I might try another venue

next time dependent

on free time and weather. 

A couple of hours down Duchess Pond. 19-09-22

Trundled down to Duchess 

for a couple of hours this 

morning.

Fished 07.00 till 12.00.

Baits were Worm, Caster, Maggots and Sweet corn.

Used a feeder cast out to the trench and

a float rod , cast to Lillies on the my right

and about 10 meters further out.

Plenty of small Roach and Perch,

to the float rod and 

a couple of Perch on the feeder.

This 1lb 9 1/2oz Skimmer Bream

was the biggest on the day.

 Flat calm all the time,

over cast at times.

Chilly at first but eventually

it warmed up.

Catching something with something different. Duchess Pond,

Caught this morning by the camera lens.

The local Grey Heron in iconic 

Heron fishing pose.

Then it flew over to

the north bank,

It managed to keep it's catch

a small Roach.

 

Nothing big down Duchess Pond.

It was quite atmospheric on the

walk to Duchess this morning,

Again using my old float rod and Quiver tip,

I set up on the east bank this time.

Again I set up the Quiver tip with a cage feeder

 and size 14 .

I made 10 casts before hooking on sweet corn

and red maggot.

Then a Peacock 2 1/2BB float,

 again to a size 14 hook.

It was a very slow start with out

much interest.

Again I tried Sweetcorn, Red Maggot 

and Worm.

Started at 6am and it wasn't till

after 9am that the swims started 

coming alive.

In the end I managed about 5-6 pounds 

of Roach and Perch.

This photo shows the last 20 or so minutes

before I packed up at 11.00.

 A very pleasant mornings fishing,

with plenty of wild life to keep me

entertained.

I didn't take a keepnet so put these in

my landing net.