Summer sunday at Lacock. 21-070-13

With a little maggot left over

and wanting to try out

my own home made paste.

I tootled up the M4

and arrived around 06.30.

Setting up near a swim I intended to fish latter

I put in some Hemp, loose maggot

and a few bits of paste. 

[I also noticed what looked like

someone sleeping / hiding (from the cows)

under a plastic cover on the opposite bank.

Little did I know how that would change things later.]

Anyway In the swim I had just baited up I noticed some

activity over the free offerings.

Possible Chub I hoped.

Well I fed a few more swims as I walked 

up stream, I fed more swims than I intended to fish

hoping to slowly get the fish to

get used to my flavourings

without being caught..

Time will tell.

Well up in the first field I set up

 and just used a maggot feeder 

and trotting a float.

This produced the usual Dace, Roach

and Chub.

I do really enjoy this style of fishing.

Back to the second swim in the second field

I set up a small running ledger with

an 8m boillie covered with some

of my paste.

Not touch. Not a good start on my flavourings.

Hhhhmmmmm!

I tried to left under that bush and under that tree to 

right.

Same in the second swim,

one rig to the left

and the other  to the right

in the flow between

a mid stream snag and the 

part collapsed bank.

In both of these swims I alternated

to using the float rig, a Crow Quill Avon float

fished over a bed of Maggot and Hemp.

All small fish up to about 1/2lb.

On to swim 3 and this time just the feeder rod

as it was to tight for float fishing.

Same result not a touch.

Now to my (what should have been my final swim)

and the people across the other side

had got up and been for dip.

Yep! a young lady and boy friend

had been in for a swim and were now drying off without a towel?

Clothes on a branch with the cows showing a lot interest 

in them. Very funny to watch.

In this swim is a fallen tree, the raft of rubbish

is growing quickly.

The bank on the other side was covered

with plastic bags, bottles, Pringle tubes

and so on.

I had just cast my first rig into the swim

when  more kids turned up

and that was it swim killed. They jumping in the water 

walking over the top of my baits.

I gave up on that swim

and moved further down, under a big tree

where I caught the 4lb 6oz Chub 

on an earlier trip.

Same result small fish on the float nothing on the ledger rig

A Mink passed under my feet 

carrying a Stoat, what a sight.

By now the other bank was getting

really crowded wit dog walkers

the bites dried up.

So packed up.

Having had a good thunder storm last night,

I hope it freshens up the rivers a bit.