Coarse
It was another glorious sunny day as I made my first outing in a week, again venturing across open countryside to fish a swim on the near side of Lake Ekete
where, a week earlier, I had caught a small pike as a part of a 224 fish bag of mainly small silvers.
I arrived to find a strong wind blowing across the main lake and straight down the channel which would act as a funnel for food and felt sure the fish would
follow. After the bag of small silvers the week previous I decided to make my bottom dropper shot a number 4, my second a number 6 and the third a number 8,
the idea being to get the bait down faster and hopefully avoid the smaller fish on top. (I would usually use 3 number 8s or smaller)
I fished on the deck with my usual combination of bronze maggot dyed and flavored with aniseed over bread crumb mixed with crushed and roasted hemp, corn flavored with vanilla, maggot and around a half pint of casters. The previous week I had also noticed a lot of predator activity so I also put out a simple dead bait rig, changing depths on every cast.
The fish immediately started coming and although I had to wait a little longer for the bites, the fish were of a slightly better stamp with some nice hand sized Rudd, Roach and Skimmers coming to hand.
As is always the way, there was little indication of predators being anywhere in the vicinity, although I did make a catch, retrieving my dead bait to discover a giant mussel had clamped on!
The fish continued to come for most of the day and mostly I avoided the fish on top although there were the occasional Bleak but they were, for the species, good fish, averaging 3oz to 4oz.
After 6 hours, sun burned, hungry and taunted by the wonderful smell of BBQ's being set up all around the lake, I decided it was time to go and find some after sun and a nice cup of tea. I was a worthwhile session, 225 fish and for a much better weight than last time so I went home happy :)
