So far, this winter has been difficult as the fish appear to be tightly shoaled not helped by the recent freezing conditions. Today was a lot milder and there was a stiff westerly wind blowing into the dam wall, which hopefully meant the fish had spread out.
With 33 anglers the pegging was a little tight in areas, however I was happy to draw (p13) on the point opposite the dam wall.
On the all-in 7 feeders full of groundbait, micros, 4s and corn was deposited at 57m. Whilst that settled, I cast to 70m towards the buoys (75m) hoping for an early pull, which didn’t happen. After 30mins I went over the 55m line fishing an 8mm wafter and after a couple of funny bites switched to a 6mm yellow wafter and managed 3 bream over the next hour.
The following hour only produced 1 bream, which prompted a re-feed with a further 4 feeders full of bait.
From those I could see, Ian White to my right had caught a few bream and a 16lb carp, but Roland Lucas and Stu Burridge to my left were both blanking, and I couldn’t see much being caught on the dam wall.
I managed to a catch a couple more bream at 75m next to the buoys and only 1 over the re-feed. I had also fed a short line but never had a touch here.
My section ran from Ian who won the section round to my left and most of the dam wall, were I think only 1 or 2 anglers weighed, so an area to avoid on Wednesday.
The fish were obviously in the shallower water to my right, which meant I was on the edge and pleased to finish 2nd in section and 1 out of the money – again!
Overall, it was nice to return as well as seeing more bream showing, which meant the cormorants hadn’t eaten them all!
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