This is the second Saturday on the bounce it's happened. Same area, same tactics, same result. In true Fast Show style "This week I have been mostly catching Bream".
I think I've just about got the pleasure tactics right for this now. Lump it in, mark time for an hour catching bits, then start fishing over the bubbles when they start appearing. It sounds easy, but you never really know whether it'll work until it does. Last week - it all happened in the space of a couple of hours - this week it was a more sustained session.
I started with a decent hybrid of around a pound and a half, then nowt much happened for 15 minutes. I got a brief lift-bite, which produced a slab around 4lb, then another and you can guess the rest. How this session differed from last Saturday was that I didn't have any tench and there were hardly any bits knocking about. I had a bit of a lull mid-session and had a chuck on the bomb, which resulted in several frustrating liners and a small perch around 4oz on double caster.
The bream were soon back and made their presence known in a very strange way. Every now & then, in amongst the bubbles were rotten reed stems - surfacing from the bottom. The odd one at first, then two here, four there - it was like a team of snorklers coming up.
Jockster was down on peg 8 and catching bits - I gave him a call after bream no. 7 and by the time he'd walked up I'd had another 3 big uns. I lost one while he was stood chatting, and had another five before I packed up & they all went back.
"Say gorgonzola!!" Jock demonstrating how to use a (familiar looking) Fox bumpbar:
'abramis' & 'brama' pose for the camera while the rest look on from the net:
Who said all the big bream had been snaffled?? Off work for a fortnight, so I'll be back midweek for sure.
Jockster was down on peg 8 and catching bits - I gave him a call after bream no. 7 and by the time he'd walked up I'd had another 3 big uns. I lost one while he was stood chatting, and had another five before I packed up & they all went back.
"Say gorgonzola!!" Jock demonstrating how to use a (familiar looking) Fox bumpbar:
'abramis' & 'brama' pose for the camera while the rest look on from the net:
Who said all the big bream had been snaffled?? Off work for a fortnight, so I'll be back midweek for sure.
2 comments:
What time were you fishing? I was further up near the day ticket stretch on Saturday and only had small hybrids, roach and perch. The tench and bream weren't about for me.
From around 10 until 3.
Ran out of breadfeed so called it a day.
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