Back at Lymmvale and it's Plan D or is it E (?) after three embarrasing failures so far.... Simple tactics today - lighter rigs and literally tons of maggots.
I kick off at 1.30pm with a heavy slider float set at about 12 ft and a lighter driftbeater at 7-8 ft ready to see if anything follows the maggot rain up the water column. I'm constantly firing the maggots out and after a dead hour on the slider a switch to the ligher rod produces a very shy bite straight away, which obviously happens while I'm pouring a cup of coffee.
More maggots, more maggots and more maggots until finally I hit another shy bite - a bream of about 3lbs fights surprisingly well. Thank gawd for that... At 5pm all hell breaks loose when I strike into something big and insanely quick which strips 30 yards off the reel. It's all action for 5 mins as it becomes clear that I'm not the one in control until the 2.5 lb hooklink gives up the goat. A hooked diving duck follows to totally goose the swim. Rats....
More maggots x10 later and it's a bigger bream of 4lbs in the net followed by another the same size at 8.30pm and a small tench of about a pound to finish off. No PB tench yet but much improved. Interestingly none on the bottom which makes me think fish are passing through but it's not a holding swim.
Despite a fire hose intensity bout of rain after arriving the air pressure has risen from 1014-1016 over the session - perhaps coincidence, or perhaps not... Another swim next time and hopefully I can snag a nice PB Tench before they turn their attention to making little Tench.
Mr Fish
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