You can never have too much of a good thing
I’m enjoying not having to travel to work this week very much indeed.
Project bathroom is underway, I’m watching lots of movies and, of course, there’s the fishing.
You can never have too much of a good thing.
On this occasion I flicked the bait just off the end of the rod tip in a couple of feet of water.
I didn’t even lift the bale arm.
The pond that I was on is shallow anyway and, due to its sheltered location, it does freeze over when it gets really cold.
For now though, it’s just cold, and although you don’t need a thermometer to reveal that, you can tell as soon as you make contact with the water that it’s in low single digits.
While most of the summer vegetation has died off, there is still decaying gunge on the deck.
It’s a clear pond though and that enables you to find a clean patch, which is exactly what I did.
It was a quiet session with mostly roach activity. You can see the best silver in the video, as well as the solitary perch caught right at the end.
Hi Stewert, thoroughly enjoying your blogs and the accompanying videos. Your simplicity and how you plan and make the most of your time is great. Love all the content and it’s nice that is incudes wildlife and sermons wildlife etc. A couple of questions I may, do you use mono or braid pain line for pike fishing and if float fishing in deeper water would you use a larger float. Thanks
Matt
Thanks, Matt. Nice one.
I go for mono, I’m usually fishing quite close to the bank so no real advantage in braid.
Yes, the float has to do the job, I think you’ll get the feel whether you need to increase in size or not.
Thank you Stewart,
You’re welcome, Matt. Tight lines.